Hi
I'm using Moodle version Moodle 2.7.4+ (Build: 20150129)
I use a custom grade scale Fail/Pass and in the gradebook when I have graded an activity as 'Pass' there also appears a score of 100% (which is logical); however, I don't want an actual score, either in points or percentage. Is this possible? If yes, how do I change the required settings please?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
Jane
Good Morning Jane,
In our school, we acknowledge the completion of Honors-level assignments by using Outcomes. This allows us to essentially use a Pass/Fail scale (we call it Honors Complete/Incomplete) which does not add any points to the course grade, as a regular Scale would do.
As an admin, you need to add a site-wide Outcome (Site Admin - Grades - Outcomes)
Teachers then go to the course settings and enable outcomes, and then add the outcome to each assignment (while setting the assignment grade to No Grade). We ended up creating our own category to place our Honors assignments in so they are grouped together in the gradebook. I've attached directions that I gave to my staff to add the outcomes to their classes (Hopefully this will be helpful to you.). When teachers grade these assignments, there is no option to give a grade, but in the last column on the grading page, there is the option to select the pass/fail from the outcome drop down.
Here is an image of what this would look like to a student (notice the category total has no grade)
Note, we haven't tried this with Quizzes, only Assignments. Also, another option that was recommended to me before I decided to use Outcomes was to use a pass/fail scale (which does assign a grade) but then have that category drop the lowest grade.
Thanks John, I'll have a look at this - I did toy with the idea of using Outcomes at one stage and didn't in the end although I can't remember why ... Jane
Hi Jane,
Are you just looking to hide the column from students in the User Report? At our college, we had two devs that hid the column using some CSS. However, in 2.8 I believe this is a core feature.
Also, when it comes to the gradebook as far as I understand when you setup a scale the values are assigned points, for example I teach both level 1 and Level 3 and our scales are as follows:
Level 1
Level 3
This comes in handy when you are trying to calculate overall grades. Hope this helps :D
Carl
Thanks Carl, I'll look into this a bit further; initially all I wanted is to have Not Yet Passed/Pass in the grade book and without the 0% or 100%.
Jane
Jane,
I have come back to this post several times wanting to know the answer. I have taken the information given above and come up with a possible solution. Since there is no way I can understand your entire situation, I realize it might not entirely fit with your needs. The grade book I was using was aggregated as simple weighted means in Moodle 2.8 so the blanks are ungraded items.
Try this:
See the screen shots below for samples. If you don't want course totals to show, put in an assignment that you intend to remain hidden. By default the totals will not show on the user reports for students.
I hope that was helpful.
