Creating Grade Categories in Moodle

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1.Creating Grade Categories in Moodle

Categories are groups of grade items. You create categories to organize items in your gradebook. Categories are especially important if you have a large number of assignments or if you have associated outcomes with your assignments. Without categories, your gradebook may feel jumbled and be difficult to manage. With categories, you can group grade items together and collapse them when you don’t need to see the grade items in that category.

Use the following procedure to add grade categories to your gradebook and move items into a category.

Task Screen Shot 2. Locate the Settings block. 3. Click Grades.

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Technology Services 414-382-6700 [email protected] Task Screen Shot 4. Select the Categories and Items tab.

5. Click the Add Category button.

Technology Services 414-382-6700 [email protected] Task Screen Shot 6. Give the category a name.

Do one of the following:  For categories that are assigned point values like quizzes, go to step For categories that are assigned point values like quizzes, select Value as the Grade Type. Moodle can then aggregate the individual assignments’ scores and display a category total..  For categories that use a scale (like the Alverno S, U, IP scale), go to step For categories that use a scale (like the Alverno S, U, IP scale), select None for Grade type..

Technology Services 414-382-6700 [email protected] Task Screen Shot 7. For categories that are assigned point values like quizzes, select Value as the Grade Type. Moodle can then aggregate the individual assignments’ scores and display a category total. 8. Click the Save Changes button. 9. Go to stepClick the Save changes button.Click the Save changes button..

10. For categories that use a scale (like the Alverno S, U, IP scale), select None for Grade type.

This prevents Moodle from trying to add and incorrectly average scores for the category. There will be no category total if Grade type is set to None.

11. Go to step Click the Save changes button.Click the Save changes button..

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12. Click the Save changes button.

13. To move assignments to a category, check the check box to the right of the assignments to be moved.

14. Select the new category from the “Move selected items to:” drop-down box.

The assignments you checked are moved into the category you selected.