I finally came across this discussion:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=92211#p422967
which suggests if I read it aright that the super duper new fangdangled imporved Gradebook module that shipped with 1.9 couldn't do course letter grades (one had to create a new grade item and populate calculations for it) and that this has not been addressed in the 6 months since that discussion.....
Could someone please explain?
Marc:
The issue in that post is that people wanted to display both grades and percents. That was a feature in < 1.9 that was overlooked in the current gradebook.
In our school I simply added a patch so that the percent used to compute the letter is always printed after the letter grade, which works for us. I put it in a <span> tag so that if anyone asks for the percent to not show, we can just use a style sheet entry to not display the percent.
To use our fix, in /lib/gradelib.php, change line
to
--Gary
The issue in that post is that people wanted to display both grades and percents. That was a feature in < 1.9 that was overlooked in the current gradebook.
In our school I simply added a patch so that the percent used to compute the letter is always printed after the letter grade, which works for us. I put it in a <span> tag so that if anyone asks for the percent to not show, we can just use a style sheet entry to not display the percent.
To use our fix, in /lib/gradelib.php, change line
return format_string($letter);to
return format_string($letter).'<span class=perc>('.format_float($value,$decimals,$localized).')</span>';--Gary
I understand what you were doing, but I don't know if you understand my problem ;=}
Let me see if I can restate it correctly.... you patched the code to add the per cent after the letter grade.... however, I can't get the letter grade.... period. At least not for categories or class grade, only for assignment. I have spent quite a bit of time poring over the FAQs, tutorials, and docs and frankly have apparently missed the boat.........
Let me see if I can restate it correctly.... you patched the code to add the per cent after the letter grade.... however, I can't get the letter grade.... period. At least not for categories or class grade, only for assignment. I have spent quite a bit of time poring over the FAQs, tutorials, and docs and frankly have apparently missed the boat.........
In a nutshell, you need to: go to your module, click on grades and then select 'edit course settings' from the drop-down list. Under 'grade item settings', select 'grade display type' to be letter. And there it is! To change the percentages that correspond to each letter, select 'edit letter' instead.
Hope this is useful.
Tom
Hope this is useful.
Tom
Marc:
While Tom's advice was on how to change gradebook items to letter grades, to change category and course summaries (called aggregations) to display letter grades, do this:
* In the gradebook, select Categories and items
* Click the edit icon for Category total or Course total
* From the Grade display type menu, select letter
Repeat this for any other totals that you want displayed as letters.
I hope this helps.
--Gary
While Tom's advice was on how to change gradebook items to letter grades, to change category and course summaries (called aggregations) to display letter grades, do this:
* In the gradebook, select Categories and items
* Click the edit icon for Category total or Course total
* From the Grade display type menu, select letter
Repeat this for any other totals that you want displayed as letters.
I hope this helps.
--Gary
The diff between items and aggregations is critical - The additional info proposed here should be integrated as soon as possible.....
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Talk:Grade_letters
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Talk:Grade_letters
Tom and Gary, thanks for your explanations 
and Marc, thanks for suggesting that they are added to the documentation. Here they are: Grade letters
Please feel free to edit the page to make the information clearer.
and Marc, thanks for suggesting that they are added to the documentation. Here they are: Grade lettersPlease feel free to edit the page to make the information clearer.
Is there a way to have both the letter grade and the real number appear?
Herman - AFAIK and according to the help file it says:
Grade display type
Specifies how to display grades in the grader and user reports. Grades may be shown as actual grades, as percentages (in reference to the minimum and maximum grades) or as letters.