{"id":6106,"date":"2019-09-16T15:18:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2019-09-16T15:18:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:18:52","slug":"how-to-setup-moodle-gradebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2019\/09\/16\/how-to-setup-moodle-gradebook\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Setup Moodle Gradebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s the beginning of the semester and many are thinking ahead in setting up their Moodle gradebook. Moodle gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to grading but the amount of choices can be overwhelming. One option to help make things easier when setting up your gradebook is to incorporate grade categories. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grade categories can be helpful for grouping assignments together that when calculated need to equal a certain percentage. If your syllabus looks similar to the list below you can try setting up weighted categories for your gradebook in Moodle. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Homework 20%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Papers 25%<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quizzes 15%<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exams 40%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can learn more about setting up categories and formatting the rest of your gradebook by reading our documentation page on <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.swarthmore.edu\/display\/MOODLE\/How+To+Setup+Moodle+Gradebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how to setup your Moodle gradebook<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6113\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-16-at-1.52.27-PM-1024x521.png\" alt=\"screenshot of grade categories on Moodle grade setup page\" width=\"641\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-16-at-1.52.27-PM-1024x521.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-16-at-1.52.27-PM-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-16-at-1.52.27-PM-768x391.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-16-at-1.52.27-PM-118x60.png 118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Need more help?<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like more help with setting up your Moodle gradebook you can view our other documentation pages below. Also, don&#8217;t hesitate to contact us <a href=\"mailto:acadtech@swarthmore.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acadtech@swarthmore.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.swarthmore.edu\/display\/MOODLE\/Grading+in+Moodle\">Grading in Moodle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.swarthmore.edu:8443\/display\/MOODLE\/Uploading+Assignment+Feedback+Files\">Uploading Assignment Feedback Files<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.swarthmore.edu:8443\/display\/MOODLE\/Import+Grades+into+Moodle\">Import Grades into Moodle<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the beginning of the semester and many are thinking ahead in setting up their Moodle gradebook. Moodle gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to grading but the amount of choices can be overwhelming. One option to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2019\/09\/16\/how-to-setup-moodle-gradebook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Setup Moodle Gradebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":5050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,80],"tags":[90],"class_list":{"0":"post-6106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-moodle","9":"tag-featured","11":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Untitled-design-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1Au","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions\/6115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}