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Payden Academic Center 122C
10AM – 7PM, Monday-Friday, with some flexibility
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How do I drop the lowest grade or grades?

There are times when you may want to drop the lowest grade in a set of activities. Be it assignments, quizzes, manual grade items, or any other grade activities, you can have Moodle automatically drop the lowest grade or grades in any category in the gradebook. You can also enable this ‘drop the lowest grade(s)’...

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How do I move items around in my gradebook?

By default, new grade items (manual or from an activity) appear at the bottom of your gradebook on the ‘Gradebook setup’ page. You do not have to leave them in that default order; you can move these items to where you want them to be in your gradebook. There are two ways you can move...

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How do I add a category to my gradebook?

If you wish to group your assignments or other activities in your gradebook, one helpful way to do that is to create a category for these items. Here are the steps for creating a category in your Moodle gradebook. Login to Moodle. Click on the course to which you wish to add the category in...

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How do I set-up a gradebook that simply adds up all my points?

By default, the Moodle gradebook aggregation (the way it adds your grade values) is ‘Simple Weighted Mean of Grades.’ In a ‘Simple Weighted Mean of Grades’ aggregation, the course total in the gradebook is calculated (for all intents and purposes) by adding up the number of points earned and dividing that by the number of...

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How do I change my gradebook aggregation to ‘Weighted Mean of Grades’?

By default, the Moodle gradebook aggregation (the way it adds your grade values) is ‘Simple Weighted Mean of Grades.’ This is points-based, and does not allow you to weight categories or items. If your syllabus is set up with various categories (e.g., Quizzes, Homework, Papers, etc.) or grade items (e.g., Mid-term Exam, Final Presentation, etc.)...

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What am I required to do in Moodle, as a Faculty member?

To best support our students, Moodle is the official Learning Management System for the University. In Moodle, all faculty are required to: Post your syllabus as a file resource on the main page of your course with the word ‘Syllabus’ in the name. If you have posted it elsewhere, such as in a forum discussion thread...

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How do I grade students in a group in an assignment activity?

Groups and groupings can be set-up to allow subsets of your course to do various activities in isolation of other group. Once groups and groupings are set-up in your course, there is another group-related setting on the Assignment settings page that allows students to submit in groups, and, consequently, allowing you to grade in groups....

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Fast FAQ: Submitting Mid-term Progress Grades or Final Grades

[Faculty Fast FAQ] Here is a quick video on the process of submitting mid-term progress grades or final grades! This video shows Moodle version 3.2, but it is accurate for version 3.4 and 3.6 as well. Fast FAQ Video Transcript (Microsoft Word format): Submitting Final Grades or Mid-term Progress Grades Same Topic with Screenshots and Written...

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How do I remove an override in my gradebook?

Moodle allows you to manually override an individual grade item, a grade category total, or even your course’s total. Once an item has been overridden, the content is static, as in the number will not change. So if you override a category or course total, any changes, additions, or subtractions will no longer be reflected...

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Why aren’t my category totals displaying on the Grader Report?

The ‘Grader Report’ is the spreadsheet-like view of the gradebook 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. ‘Full view’ – everything in...

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