Moodle 2.0

Features for Teachers
Viewing grade categories
Categorizing the graded activities in a course enables you to quickly see how your
students are doing with various kinds of activities. If you do not assign an activity
to a category, by default it belongs to the category Uncategorized. The following
screenshot shows a course that uses the categories of Quizzes and Non-quizzes.
These were created by the Teacher because they were concerned that some students
have test anxiety, so the Teacher wanted to compare the students' performance on
tests to other activities:
Notice that in the category labeled Quizzes, the grades for two quizzes are showing:
Terminology Test and Lifecycle Test. It also displays the Category total for
Quizzes.
In the category labeled Non-quizzes, the report displays only the Category total.
Grades for the individual activities under Non-quizzes are not displayed. If the
Teacher clicks the + sign next to Non-quizzes, then the individual grades in that
category will be revealed.
In this example, the Teacher can see that Student1's scores on the quizzes are
consistent with the student's score on the non-quiz activities. Categorizing the
activities made it easy to see the comparison.
Creating grade categories
Categories are created, and items are moved into categories, in the same window.
How to create a grade category
To create a grade category,follow the steps shown below:
1. Select Settings | Grade administration | Categories and items.
2. From there, you can select Simple view or Full view.
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