An Introduction to Grading

A helpful starting point is remembering that "gradebook" is actually a catch-all term for several grade-related features that exist in the Grades section of your course. The gradebook includes things like:

• Grader Report: An overview of all grades for all users in your course.
• Single View: An optimized view for all user grades for a single activity, or all activity grades for a single user. 
• Setup: The area where you configure how your grades are calculated and organized. 
• Grade History: A search tool to view all grades that have been entered for an assessment, in addition to the current grade. 
• User Report: An overview of how your learners see their grades in your course. 

Any time you add a new graded activity in your course, a corresponding column is added to your list of grades. You can manually add grade items (columns) for offline work that isn't being collected through your course site. You can also use categories to organize grade items (columns), which is especially helpful if you are weighting your course grades. 

Many graded course activities will update grades in the gradebook as they're entered. Some activities can update the grades automatically (Quizzes), while others require input from you before pushing grades over (Assignment, Forum). 

This lesson will introduce you to a few areas of your gradebook, but more will be explored in our Advanced Usage of Moodle course.