Gradebook Questions

Gradebook Questions

by yann vautrin -
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Good morning all,

At the moment, my school is using a excel set of spreadsheets as a gradebook, which I had rather be runned directly in moodle using moodle's gradebook.

Screenshot of the excel spreadsheet we are using as a gradebook at the moment

A few questions about the gradebook:

  • At the moment, when is open the gradebook for a course, all items in the course are added by default.... Where can I disable that, so I can create a gradebook with only custom items?
  • Once I have this custom gradebook created, how can I add it to each courses inside a category?
  • How can I, As manager of a category, customize each student's report, aggregating student's grade for all courses inside a single report, including student's picture, and a custom field to be filled by the head of the school to add a general comment for the end of term report?

Thanks for your support!


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Re: Gradebook Questions

by Paul Raper -
Hi Yann,

To answer step by step:
At the moment, when is open the gradebook for a course, all items in the course are added by default.... Where can I disable that, so I can create a gradebook with only custom items? You can hide individual items that you do not use. But what I do in my gradebooks is set up categories, or headings, under which I put the items according to whether or not they are included in the final grade or not.
How can I, As manager of a category, customize each student's report, aggregating student's grade for all courses inside a single report, including student's picture, and a custom field to be filled by the head of the school to add a general comment for the end of term report? This part, as far as I know, you can only do by linking courses together such that one course builds on the next. There is a great book on the Moodle Gradebook by Rebecca Barrington by PACKT Publishing. I would seriously suggest taking a look at that.
Once I have this custom gradebook created, how can I add it to each courses inside a category? As far as I know, there is no way to create a gradebook template which can then be added to other courses. That said, you can create a template course with the gradebook in it, and then copy that course however many times you want.
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Re: Gradebook Questions

by yann vautrin -
Thank you for your quick and detailed answer, much appreciated!

So, there is no way to prevent new activities to be automatically added to the grade book?
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Re: Gradebook Questions

by Rick Jerz -
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(As Paul mentioned) In Moodle's grade book, you can hide any item not of interest. Or you can create a category, called something like "Items of no interest" move those activities of no interest into it, and then hide the entire category.
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Re: Gradebook Questions

by John Provasnik -
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New activities are only added if they have a grade associated with them. Consider having your staff (when adding new activities) change the default grade to No Grade in Assignments / '0' Max points in quizzes to prevent them from appearing at all.
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