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12.4. Adding a gradebook column for an external grade

Follow this procedure to add a column to the gradebook for exams and other graded items that are not assignments.

Note

Your teaching assistants and graders who have the “Non-editing teacher” role cannot enter grades of this type. If you want TAs and graders to enter a grade, make it an assignment of the Offline activity type; see Section 11, “Assignment activities”.

Procedure 13. Adding an external grade to the gradebook

  1. If editing is turned off, click the Turn editing on button near the top right corner of the page.

  2. Under Administration on the left side, click Grades.

  3. From the Choose an action... pull-down menu at the top left, under Categories and items, select Simple view.

  4. Click the Add grade item at the bottom of this page .

  5. You are now on the New grade item page. In the Grade item group, enter a unique name in the Item name field.

  6. In the Parent category section, you can select a category for this item (see Section 12, “Grades”). However, better practice is to leave the grade category in the default category (which has the same name as your course) until you have all the grades entered.

  7. Click Save changes. This takes you back to the Simple view page.

  8. From the Choose an action... menu, under View, select Grader report.

  9. In the column for this item, enter the grades for each student.

  10. Be sure to click Update when you are done. If you leave the page by any other route, any grades you have entered will be discarded.

  11. Now move the graded item from Uncategorised to its proper category. In the Choose an action... pull-down menu, select Full view.

  12. In the row for this item, click the Select checkbox in the last column.

  13. At the bottom of the page, in the Move selected items to pull-down, select the proper category for the item.

The page will be reformatted so that the item moves into the color-coded block for that category.