Grading offline assessment with course completion

Grading offline assessment with course completion

by Leon Stringer -
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I'm looking for a way to track that a learner has completed some external assessment. So the status would be one of: not attempted, attempted and passed, or attempted but failed. Passing the assessment is required as part of course completion. We're using Moodle 3.9.

I looked at using assignment with no submission or feedback types selected. But Activity completion doesn't have Student must receive a passing grade to complete this activity (added in Moodle 4.0) so failing the assessment would count as completed for course completion.

I also looked at adding a manual grade item but there's no way to mix achieving one passing grade with activity completion as part of the course completion criteria, there's only the Course grade criteria.

Is there any other activity that could be used for this? In Moodle core or in a plugin? Or a different approach?

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Re: Grading offline assessment with course completion

by Mary Cooch (personal account) -
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If the assessment is external, who is actually recording the activity completion - the learner or the teacher? So in order to complete the course, they have to have attempted and passed an external assignment? Does having completed it and failed still need to be shown as part of the activity completion, or could the teacher simply mark as complete assignments which have been attempted and passed? And ignore the others? IAlternatively perhaps the grading scale could reflect the status - not attempted, attempted and failed, attempted and passed, with the activity completion only being marked if the assignment was passed?
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Re: Grading offline assessment with course completion

by Leon Stringer -
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It's the teacher marking the assessment so would record the outcome in Moodle.

I think your suggestion is the way we will go. It does mean the that there will just be two states: submitted+passed, and not submitted/submitted+not passed, with no way to distinguish between these last two. Not ideal but it'll have to do until upgrading.

Thanks Mary.

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Re: Grading offline assessment with course completion

by Shirley Gregorczyk -
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We had a similar use case. We setup an assessment course when the student uploads their documents from the external course. No feedback/no grade requirements.
Then we added a one question quiz activity - Did you successfully upload your ABC document. True/False - the True receives a passing grade and sets the course to complete.
Kind Regards
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Re: Grading offline assessment with course completion

by Leon Stringer -
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Thanks Shirley. It's the teacher who will mark the assessment so this may not apply for our use case, but it's something for us to think about.