Moodle Gradebook Overview
Moodle gradebook enables you to arrange items in your gradebook, add categories and grade items and
customize how student’s grades are calculated.
To access the gradebook, click on Grades link under Administration/Course Administration.
When you access the gradebook, Grader Report displays as a default. Grader report is an overview of
all the grade categories and grade items that are currently in the gradebook.
To build your gradebook, click on Categories and Items tab.
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When you are starting with a blank course you will see a blank gradebook that looks like this:
If you have activities such as assignments, graded forums, or quizzes then these grade items will be
automatically populating your gradebook. We will cover this later.
To start building your gradebook, you will add categories and grade items.
To create a new category:
Select Add category button
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And fill out the following:
Category Name
Then, click Save changes.
Repeat this step to add more categories.
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Here is an example of the gradebook with three categories:
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Assignments
Exams
Reports
Now that your categories are created, you need to add individual assignments for each one. These are
called grade items. Follow the instructions below.
To create a new grade item:
Select Add grade item button
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And fill out the following:
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Item name
Maximum grade
Grade category
Then, click Save changes.
Repeat this step to add more grade items.
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This is an example of
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Moodle linked activities (see Assignments and Exams) and
Manually created grade items (see Reports: Report 1 and Report 2)
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The gradebook can be set up in two ways:
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Sum of grades
Weighted means of grades
Sum of grades is the default option.
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Sum of grades
If you prefer to show a sum of points, you will set the course category’s aggregation method to “Sum of
grades”. Your course total is the sum of all points for the course.
See the picture above.
Weighted mean of grades
This means that each category will hold a weight.
You set the aggregation to weighted mean of grades for the course and sum of grades for each category.
Look at the grade sheet below. This is an example of a grade sheet with weighted mean of grades.
There are three categories:
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Assignments worth 30% of total grade
Exams worth 20% of total grade
Reports worth 50% of total grade
The total for all categories must add up to 100%.
You need to put 100 in Course total window manually.
If you don’t do it, the gradebook will not calculate course totals correctly.
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This covers the basic features of the gradebook.
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