Calculated grade using hidden columns

Calculated grade using hidden columns

by John Tutchings -
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Moodle 2.6.

I have just had a case where a teacher had set up 5 columns in the gradebook for the marks his students got during some off-line lab work.  As he was only interested in the average mark for the 5 pieces of lab work he had created a sixth column and populated it using the average function on the other 5 columns.  From his view of the gradebook everything looked fine and the students had the correct mark, however a student reported that he had 44483% for the lab work.  I logged in as several students and they all had this very same mark.  To sort the problem I revealed the other 5 columns to the student and hey presto, the calculation worked correctly.


Has anyone else come across this and is it a bug or a feature of Moodle as I could see that sometimes you may wish to use values from hidden fields in a final calculated column.