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About
Moodle 1.8 Grades area (aka gradebook) simply aggregates all grades from already existing site activities. Thus, it is not possible to create columns or enter grades in the gradebook itself.
New columns for new grade items are added to the gradebook automatically, when you create a graded activity from the "Add an Activity" menu in your course. As students complete an activity, their scores appear in the gradebook.
If you have activities that are completed outside of Moodle (e.g.,
class participation, in-class assignment, etc.) you can still record
grades for those. Simply add an Offline Assignment to your course
using the steps listed below in the Add a Column section. This will provide you with an area
where students would not be able to submit anything, but you still
will be able to record grades.
Add a column 
- Go to the site homepage
- Click Turn Editing On
- Select an activity (e.g. Offline Assignment) from the Add an activity dropdown menu. Configure the activity as desired
- Click Save Changes
View grades
To view grades, go to your site homepage and click Grades link in the Administration block
Students can be sorted by name, or by high or low total scores (click the up/down arrows). The "Stats" link will open a pop-up window with your current course statistics.
Clicking on a category title (if available) will show you what is in that category, the points, etc. and the totals for that category. Clicking on a student's name will show you just that student's grades.
Enter grades
To enter a grade, you need to go inside your assignment/quiz/forum and assign the grade there. After that, the grade will automatically appear in the appropriate column in the gradebook.
Hide grades
By default, the link to the grade book is visible to your students in the Administration block. From this link they will have access to view their individual gradebooks.
Hide gradebook from students
- Go to the site homepage
- Click Settings in the Administration block
- Set Show Grades to No
- Click Save Changes.
Hide individual columns (activities)
You may also hide individual activities on your course homepage, which will hide respective columns in your grade book and will exclude those items from the automatically calculated total grade.
- From the course homepage, select Turn editing on
- Click the eye icon
 for the activity you wish to hide. The activity will now be hidden from the students’ view and will not appear in the grade book. You can choose keep activities hidden until the time that they are assigned.
Repeat these steps, but click the closed eye icon  to unhide activity.
Default settings
Some features in the grade book are enabled by default for all Moodle
courses. The last column
with the Total grade is calculated automatically. Thus, if your course grade
is a simple sum of all graded activities (columns), then you are all set.
Set preferences (in Default view)
Reprint Headers
This setting determines how often activity names are printed in the gradebook. This is a great option for when
you have a class with too many students to see all the data on one page.
- Go to the gradebook and click Set Preferences tab
- Select particular number from the Reprint
Headers drop down box
- Click Save Preferences
- Click on the View Grades tab to check your view
Show Hidden Items (to the instructor):
If set to Yes, gradebook will show and will include in calculation the grade items (activities) that are hidden from students. This applies to the instructor view only!
Students will not see gradebook entries for items that are not visible to them, and their view of the Total grade will always exclude hidden items.
Advanced features
Activate advanced features (calculations) for your gradebook:
- Click Grades link in the
Administration block. The gradebook will open.
- Click the Set Preferences tab.
- Click Use Advanced Features. All of the advanced features are now
displayed for your use. These include the following tabs: set categories, set
weights, set grade letters and grade exceptions.
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