Marty Soupcoff

Are the PDFs you are linking to a resource in the course? From the looks of the message, you are linking to resources in your course that are hidden.

On a slight tangent, instead of linking to these materials, which depending on how you set up these links, it is either going to open a new window or take the user out of the quiz. Instead you can use services like Scribd which allow you to upload documents and then it will give you an embed code. This embed code can then be added to the essay question itself or you could insert it in a description question so that it is separate from the essay question but displays on the same page. An example can be seen in image below.

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Could you post a picture of your categories and items page so I can see how you have all the grade items arranged, their point values and their weights. Moodle doesn't have the ability to do all the functions that excel can but maybe if you re-arrange the gradebook a little it may be possible.

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Can you provide an image of your Categories & Items page with any formulas needed and how you want the final course total calculated.

The way I described, replicated the formula and outcome you described in your initial post of [(6/10)*4]+1 = 3.4. If you look at the Fred Student user, second user in the gradebook, you can see that he did have a 6 on the quiz (look at 3:10 marker of video) and after my calculation he had a 3.4 in that category. If you were to divide by the max grade, you would have a formula of [(6/5)*4+1 = 5.8.

Did you do the steps at the beginning of the video where I switched the category to Simple weighted mean and then made that category worth 5 instead of 10 but left the individual quiz worth 10 points?

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Yes will work same way; just adjust your formula.

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Not to push you away from the Moodle Community forums but this may be a question better asked on the Microsoft Word or Excel forums.

On a sidenote, a lot of the tasks you describe can be done with the TurnItIn integration with Moodle. It allows you to add comments (what it calls Grademarks), save common Grademarks so you can just drag and drop them onto the paper and then enter a grade for the paper that pushes to the Moodle gradebook. This way it would cut out the need to download all the papers and use MS Word or Excel. In addition to all that TurnItIn is checking against other papers, websites and resources for plagiarism.

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