Why is my gradebook only showing my course total or only the category total for one or more categories?

The ‘Grader Report’ is the spreadsheet-like view with all the students listed down the left side of the screen, and all the graded activities listed across the top.

There are actually three possible views that you can choose for the ‘Grader Report’ in the gradebook in Moodle.

  1. ‘Full view’ – everything in the gradebook is displayed.
  2. ‘Aggregates only’ – only the course/category total is displayed, no individual grade items in the course/category are displayed.
  3. ‘Grades only’ – only the grade items are displayed, no course or category totals.

NOTE: You can also apply these views to categories within the gradebook.

BE AWARE – when you change your view, it changes what the students can see, too.

The ‘Grader report’ views are controlled by the icon to the right of the course name or to the right of the category name, within the ‘Grader report’ view.

  • If you see a box with a ‘minus’ sign ( ) in it, then you are in the ‘Full view’ (i.e., gradebook is showing all items and categories).
  • If you see a box with a ‘plus’ sign ( ) in it, then you are in the ‘Aggregates only’ view (i.e., gradebook is showing only the course/category total).
  • If you see a box with ‘corners’ ( ) in it, then you are in the ‘Grades only’ view (i.e., gradebook is showing all the individual grade items but no category/course totals).

If you are missing something, a good rule of thumb is that if you don’t see the box with the ‘minus’ sign in it, then keep clicking the icon until you do!