Inconsistent Summing of Student Grades

Inconsistent Summing of Student Grades

by Daniel Russo -
Number of replies: 5

We have created a very large gradebook for tracking student clinic hours for our Chriopractic Program.  Some of the 20 sub-categories have 40 different grade item and we have almost 100 students in the course. 
The issue is that for some students the  sub-category total is not summing the grades from the graded items in that sub-category. While it does for others in the same category. Also, in some cases when there is a change in a grade item, the sum is not updating. The issue is in the sub-category total, not in the grade items themselves, those are updating.

We are using Moodle version 1.9.18

Thank you for any assistance you can provide.

Daniel Russo

drusso@uws.edu

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Re: Inconsistent Summing of Student Grades

by Emma Richardson -
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There is an issue with PHP that causes this behavior.  When the gradebook grid becomes too large, it maxxes out and allows no more entries.  Workarounds are as follows:

Enter the grades through the assignment instead of the grader page.

Show less students per page so that the "grid" becomes smaller.

Change the php setting to allow a larger number of entries in the grader report. (max_input_vars)

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Re: Inconsistent Summing of Student Grades

by Daniel Russo -

Thank you Emma,

Changing the setting seems to be helping. Much appreciated.

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Re: Inconsistent Summing of Student Grades

by Emma Richardson -
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Glad to have helped. Wasn't sure what your access level was -hence the different options! 

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Re: Inconsistent Summing of Student Grades

by Alexander Perez -

Hi,

Where do I change the php setting. I'm going back and forward but I haven't figure out why is showing category totals for some students and for some not.