Posts Tagged ‘gradebook’
A Video Playlist all about the Gradebook (from Western Nevada College)
Here's a great set of videos by the Teaching and Learning staff at Western Nevada College that highlight all sorts of features and setup options in the Moodle 2 Gradebook, including calculated/weighted grades, extra credit, sum of grades, non-graded items and more. There are tons of great resources to be found at the WNC blog: I've put them [...]
Rubrics in 2.2 as highlighted by @Moodlefairy
Here's a great video by Mary Cooch that highlights one of the new features in Moodle 2.2: the creation and use of Rubrics for assignments. Rubrics provide a granular grading approach and enables writing/composition teachers to grade on various criteria within a single assignment (no need for multiple gradebook entries per paper). This is a [...]
Moodle 2.2 Preview
Michael de Raadt (@salvatore) recently posted a Moodle 2.2 preview at his blog: http://salvetore.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/roadmap_22/. At the end the preview points at the Moodle.org Roadmap which gives some great information on what you can tentatively expect with the next major release of Moodle (Moodle 2.2 due in December 2011). Here are [...]
How to use the humble comma delimited (CSV) file to display private coursework marks on a Coursepage
In 2007, Serafim Panov created a Moodle mod named Display Data (it works for Moodle 1.6, 1.7, 1.8.2, 1.9.3 and 1.9.7.). By using Serafim's mod with Notepad or Excel to produce a comma-delimited (CSV) file, you can place a table containing an entire class' coursework marks on your Moodle coursepage, and yet just allow the user to see only his [...]
Weighted Categories in your Gradebook by @umonlinetips
Here's a 7 minute video from the University of Montana Online (@umonlinetips) which admins both their Blackboard and Moodle installations. The video is clear and highlights the process as it's available in Moodle. Enjoy the tip and be sure to check out some of their other videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/UMinstructiondesign Direct [...]
@KristianStill’s Magnificent Seven Gradebook/Course Design Tips
This post is cross-posted at Kristian Still's personal blog, a great resource for Moodle tips and educational technology links . I have spent a fair amount of time reflecting on course design and why the gradebook is somewhat of a late bloomer, in terms of Moodle core features. I don’t mean to harp on about gradebooks, but if you do think [...]
3 Moodle Manuals for 1.9 by Kemi-Tornio University eLearning Centre
Hosted over at http://moodle.tokem.fi/; the Kemi-Tornio has many Moodle "books" (the module) which are manuals for using different versions of Moodle cover beginner tricks and a guide each for teachers and students. The entire list of books, available in English and Finnish, is available at [...]
Every Moodle user should read the Student FAQ
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_FAQ There are some real gems in the Moodle docs at Moodle.org and the Student FAQ is one of them. This is a quick and concise recap of the most frequently asked questions about Moodle. If you find your students asking these questions again and again then a quick link to this resource could go along [...]
Moodle Monday: The fastest way to prepare courses/users for next year by @timdalton
End of the school year means start of the boring admin paperwork ready for next... This is a job I've just completed for one of our partner schools so I thought it was worth documenting as many others will be going through the same process at some point over the Summer break. We needed to do a few things- remove students that have left, move [...]
LAE Grader Report plug-in’s official release
The CLAMP-IT.org LAE Gradebook (just one piece of the 1.9.9 +LAE distribution highlighted earlier this month at Moodlenews) has been released in the Module and Plug-in repository on Moodle.org. You'll be able to download, see documentation and the various features which have made this mod a winner: easier manipulation of gradebook on the [...]
