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The Gradebook Setup page determines how your individual grade items make up a student’s entire course grade. It can do so using various aggregation methods, which you can read about in depth on Moodle’s documentation site.

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Tip

It’s best to have your gradebook laid out in your syllabus before creating it in Moodle. That way, students know what to expect and will have an accurate sense of how they’re doing when they check their course grade throughout the semester.

Note

If you need to make changes to the gradebook in the middle of the semester, communicate them to your students as soon as possible. This will:

  • Minimize confusion

  • Make expectations as clear as possible

  • Give students the best chance to get things done on time and be successful in the class

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Where is it and the Basics

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This method weights grade items automatically based on their max grade. For example, if Homework A is worth 50 points and Homework B is worth 100 points, then Homework A is worth twice as much as Homework B. Note that the course total is still 100, even though the total of the items is 150. Mean of grades means that the course total will be scaled to whatever you set it to, 100 by default. This method supports extra credit.

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This method allows you to set custom weights, regardless of max grade. Note the appearance of the Weights column using this method. If both Homework A and Homework B are worth 100 points, you can control the relative importance of each item by entering proportional values in the box next to each item. Here, Homework A is worth 60% and Homework B is worth 40% of the course total.

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Natural grading is a raw sum of points. If Homework A is worth 50 points and Homework B is worth 100 points, then the course total is 150 and cannot be rescaled. This method supports extra credit.

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