I have some extra credit options for my students. How do I set them up so that Moodle lists them in the gradebook but does not include their points in the total points possible?
(So, for example, if I have 200 possible class points, + 30 extra credit points available, 200 is still the possible points and a student can theoretically get 230/200.)
In the eCollege system I used previously, I could specify that an item was extra credit and it would automatically do this. I don't think it's built into Moodle, but are there any good workarounds? I'm thinking now I will have to put the assignments in as 0 points and manually give points, but that will confuse students.
Hi Wendi Dunlap, where you able to solve this problem? I to have planned to have extra credit in my course? If I can not find a suitable solution I may have to just forget about adding extra credit.
Nope, no luck. I ended up just putting the extra credit items up, labeling them in BIG LETTERS as extra credit 
, and then dealing with the students' confusion.
Thanks wendi,
Does anyone know how I can have one of my quizzes count as extra credit?
If not is there a way I can drop the lowest scoring quiz. I have five quizzes, I was thinking I can drop the lowest scoring quiz and that may serve instead of extra credit.
Cheers,
Jason
Hi Wendi, I only just discovered your question. The gradebook with calculated columns was written exactly to allow the kind of final grade calculation that you want. See http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3784.
Hi Gustav, is this part of Standard Moodle 1.3?
Thanks Peter
Thanks, I will look into this!
The way I do extra credit is as follows.
(1) Set up an assignment called Extra Credit. Make it worth 1 point, and give every student 1 point on that assignment. This way, no penalty. Every student starts with 100% on this "assignment", and you have nothing to explain to the students.
(2) When you want to give a student Extra Credit, modify the assignment to be worth, say 100 points temporarily.
(3) ADD the number of extra credit points into this "assignment" for each student. Don't forget to leave them the 1 point they already had. So if they just earned 10 extra points, they now have 11 Extra Credit points (10 plus the 1 "default" point).
(I know... this is silly... about as silly as Moodle not having Extra Credit in my opinion.)
(4) MODIFY the assignment BACK to being out of 1 points possible.
The end...
Hopefully, once Gustav's new calculated grade module is part of the general distribution, we can all forget this Extra Credit nonsense
Dan
and the way I give extra credit for glossary entries and FORUM postings is described in the following bug/feature reports :
http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=1206
and
bug 1205
these are patches to allow glossary and Forum to be marked cumulatively (no upper limit) as an alternative to the standard "averaged" points
http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=1206
and
bug 1205
these are patches to allow glossary and Forum to be marked cumulatively (no upper limit) as an alternative to the standard "averaged" points