How To Weight Grades In Moodle

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How to weight grades in moodle. Within all of the subcategories of the parent category the weight values do not need to add up to 100. 60 100 item 3 grade. Moodle quick start guide. In order to be able to weight categories select weighted mean of grades as the aggregation method.

40 100 item 2 grade. Select the checkbox next to a category s weight text box. Weighting grades page 7. Navigate to the gradebook setup page.

Enter the desired weights for each category. Weighting grades in moodle our current version of moodle moodle 2 8 changed the interface for how you set up your gradebook and choose weights for your weighting scheme. If items in the category have point values different from the max grade of the category grades will be adjusted proportionately. Calculates the average of all grade items in the category the sum of all grades divided by the number of grade items.

Instead of clicking on a drop down menu to choose categories and items and then full view you can now just click on the setup tab after your click on the link for the gradebook in the course administration area among other changes. Total 40 1 60 3 20 0 5 1 3 0 5 40 180 10 4 5 230 4 5 51 11 the total for this category will then be 51 11 out of 100. Allows categories to use drop the lowest. A student gets graded 20 on item 1 and 70 on item 2.

In this case reading is being weighted at 10 and writing at 90. In our hypothetical scenario if essay is our first category worth 40 of the total grade you would type. The decimal point delete the 0 and type in the correct weight for that category equal to its percentage within the course as a whole or highlight that 0 and type in the new weight. 0 5 item 1 grade.

Category 1 s total will be graded 0 75. 3 item 3 weight. If your course is set to use weighted mean of grades you can assign a weight that the grade for this category will have inside the parent category. Your categories are now weighted.

The student s total for category 1 will be 75 75 20 70 90 but item 1 only acts as extra credit so it brings the total to its maximum natural aggregation functions as a sum of grades when the weight boxes are left alone. In the example below category weights total up to 100. Does not allow grade items to be marked as extra credit. Or if one item has a maximum grade of 10 and another of 30 the latter item will be automatically weighted three times the former.

Parent category item weight. You can also select the weight the category will be given here.