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About This Book

• Contains up-to-date information on version 2.7 of Moodle Gradebook, giving you an innovative solution to the challenges of modern education
• Optimize your use of the Gradebook and explore its extensive tracking and grade calculation features
• Packed with step-by-step instructions with useful screenshots to help you apply ideas to your own Moodle course

Who This Book Is For

This book is for teachers and administrators who have experience with Moodle. Basic knowledge of Moodle 2.x will be required, but no prior knowledge of grade functions is needed. This book will help you utilize the full functionality of Version 2.7.

What You Will Learn

• Simplify your tasks with the easy-to-use features of the Gradebook
• Grade work and provide feedback using online and offline methods
• Use advanced grading options such as marking guides and rubrics
• Customize the Gradebook to your needs by creating categories for group-graded activities
• Successfully calculate and track grades with preset aggregation types based on your course requirements
• Track and assess students' progress using activity completion reports

In Detail

Assessing and tracking students to ensure they progress is one of the key challenges of modern education. Moodle Gradebook offers an innovative solution, providing you with a platform to store and calculate grades and track the progress and achievements of your students.

Moodle Gradebook, Second Edition explains and explores the full functionality and features of the Gradebook to help you to make it easier to organize your work and relay information to your students. It will introduce you to the core functions of the Gradebook and demonstrate how to add graded activities. Then it will guide you through the process of assigning and calculating grades before exploring how to organize categories and successfully report and export information.

This book provides you with detailed but easy-to-follow instructions to help you to set up the Gradebook to meet your course's needs.

Learn how to set up, maintain, and support your Moodle site efficiently

About This Book

• Authorize and authenticate your Moodle site and learn about permissions and security
• Brand your Moodle site and manage users, roles, files, and courses
• Enhance your Moodle site to increase productivity

Who This Book Is For

If you are an experienced system administrator and know how to manage servers and set up web environments but now want to explore Moodle, this book is perfect for you. You'll get to grips with the basics and learn to manage Moodle quickly, focusing on essential tasks. Having prior knowledge of virtual learning environments would be beneficial, but is not mandatory to make the most of this book.

What You Will Learn

• Manage user accounts, authenticate users, and control user permissions with roles
• Enhance your Moodle site with plugins such as activity modules, admin reports, admin tools, and more
• Brand your Moodle site with configured themes
• Set up the structure of your site using categories in Moodle
• Prepare your site for end-of-year rollover
• Install Moodle on a Linux Server
• Monitor the usage and performance of your Moodle site

In Detail

This book begins with a brief look at Moodle's background and an examination of its architectural structure and LAMP architecture.

You'll learn to create user accounts and understand the methods of authentication based on manual accounts and e-mail-based self-registrations. You'll then develop the Moodle site structure and course set up, and discover how to edit it through a sample faculty site. Next, you'll configure two of the standard themes in Moodle and apply them to organizational branding. You'll also explore how plugins are configured and installed, and learn about backing up, resetting, and restoring Moodle courses.

Finally, you'll learn Moodle's security options, along with performance testing, and how to use the built-in Moodle performance testing script.

Set-up and customize the gradebook to track student progress through Moodle

• Use Moodle's powerful gradebook more effectively to monitor and report on the progress of your students
• Customize the gradebook to calculate and show the information you need
• Discover new grading features and tracking functions now available in Moodle 2

In Detail

Moodle, as a learning management system, is used to provide resources, interactive activities and assessments to students. Through the use of the gradebook, Moodle can also be used to store grades, calculate final marks and track student achievement and progress to help the teacher manage the learning process.

Through the use of the gradebook, Moodle can also be used to store grades, making it much easier for you to organize your work and relay information to your students. This book provides examples of practical uses of the gradebook to demystify the terminology and options available, allowing you to make full use of the assessment tracking features and, most importantly, customize it to meet your needs.

Moodle Gradebook will introduce you to the core functions of the gradebook as you will learn how to add your own graded activities before marking this work. You will customize how you view the grades and organize the activities so that your course needs are met. You will also use the new completion functions within Moodle 2.x to track progress further. Make the gradebook accommodate your requirements by adding your own grading options and setting it up to present the information you need.

What you will learn from this book

• Understand the core functions of the gradebook, what information it shows, and how to get to it.
• Add graded assignments to your online course that make use of number and word grades as well as the use of outcomes.
• Create categories to arrange graded activities in the gradebook.
• Use options to filter the information you want to see.
• Discover the preset aggregation types to calculate category and course totals based on the course requirements
• View reports and export data to further review student progress.
• Set up activity and course completion to further aid assessment tracking for students and teachers.
• Discover the new advanced grading option now available in Moodle 2.

Approach

A practical book with plenty of step-by-step instructions and informative screenshots to guide you through the many features of gradebook.

Who this book is written for

Moodle Gradebook is for anyone who uses Moodle as a course instructor. You will need to know the basic functions of using and navigating Moodle, but no prior knowledge of the grades functions will be required.