NMT Moodle 1.9 Instructor's Guide |  |
NMT Moodle 1.9 Instructor's Guide | |
Students need to know how they are doing in your course, even early on in the semester. We recommend that you set up your gradebook so that the Course total column can tell them how roughly they are doing as the course progresses.
Accordingly, we recommend that you follow these hints.
Set up the gradebook early: see Section 12.2, “Configuring the gradebook”, Section 12.3, “Setting up gradebook categories”, and Section 12.5, “Setting up your grading formula”.
For each graded item in your course, leave it in the Uncategorised category until the grades are set for every student, so that the value of ungraded items is not involved in any gradebook formula.
Also, hide that column of the gradebook until all the grades are entered. See Section 12.7, “Hiding and revealing gradebook columns”.
When an assignment or quiz is graded, change the category of the item to its final category so it will be included in the calculation of the overall course grade. This procedure is described in Section 11.2, “Grading an assignment”. Then reveal the gradebook column.