Marty Soupcoff

Do you have a manual calculation that is overriding the default weights you set up? Can you post a picture of your Categories & Items page? This way we may be able to tell if you have any manual calculations, locked grades, etc.

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Possible easy problem/fix: In your gradebook, select Settings tab, check what is set in the Overall decimal points field. Do you have it set to zero?

Possible more complex problem/fix: If easy fix didn't work, is this forum using a custom scale? You mentioned in original post you were using a scale but in second post you just mentioned numbers.

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The grade is being calculated because values entered in a scale are seen as strings of text and then calculated based on the total number of possible values. As an example, a scale of "F, D, C, B, A" is the same as "Cat, dog, fish, bird, elephant". The value choices are simply selections you can choose from; that are then displayed to students.

The grades/percentage that is then displayed to students based on what value choice was selected, is dependent on your aggregation type. So in your example scale, there are 126 different choices to select from. If a student was given "F/A-", that is the 11th choice from the bottom of the list. This means Moodle is going to convert it to 11/126 or 10/125 depending on your aggregation type.

As a personal recommendation, I have my faculty users avoid scales because most do not understand what a string of text means. Some have created scales like "0, 1, 2, 3" or "3, 2, 1, 0". Both are the same in that they have four values. One is backwards but that doesn't matter as they are seen as strings of text. Furthermore, depending on their aggregation type, Moodle will convert these to be either 1-4 points possible or 0-3 points possible.

I recommend checking out the Moodle Docs on scales as it has some better examples than mine. If you want to allow your instructors to continue to make scales like this but don't want Moodle to convert it to a percentage and thus towards the course total, go into Site admin > Grades > General Settings > Include scales in aggregation and uncheck the box.

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Yes that is correct; it shows the average mark of all the students in the course for each activity to the all students.

If you don't want the students to see the average and you were just trying to get the average for the teacher to see, go to My preferences instead and activate the desired average settings in the Special Rows section.

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Are the individual grade items hidden though? The images make it look like they are. I haven't tested this but if you have it set to 'Show totals excluding hidden items' and all your items are hidden, you technically have nothing to grade. Try unhiding all your grade items and then checking course total.

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