Changing Grade Book View in Moodle 1.9

The Moodle grade book has many ways to customize the view to make instructors more comfortable with the Moodle environment.

Here's How:

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Individual Grade Reports in Moodle 1.9

Faculty are encouraged to make their Moodle courses unavailable. Unfortunately, this will also hide the course's final grade from the students. Instructors can run an individual grade report to send to students upon request. See below for the instructions:




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Managing Zeros in Moodle 1.9

Students like to see an accurate picture of their course progress throughout the semester.  Moodle has a feature where instructors can choose how to handle blank grade spaces and zeros.  See the video below  on how adjust that feature:


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Manually Editing Grades

Sometimes as instructors we need to add a few points to a student's grade or just enter a grade for an in class activity.  Usually, to add grades, we would go to the activity itself and adjust the grade.  But there is an easier way:





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Grading Moodle Discussions

Discussions are often used to enhance online course engagement and as course participation.   Some instructors like to count these discussions as participations for their courses.  This can be done using the discussion rating tool in the discussion forum setup.

Click the play button below to find out how to add discussion grading to your course:





**Note:  There is a way to add discussion ratings by students as well.  This is a handy way to add peer reviews and peer critiques to an online course.  This feature does have to be turned on by a Moodle administrator, but it is an easy process.

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Adding Users to Moodle Courses

The beginning of the semester is a hectic time.  Students are added and removed from courses; instructors are changed.  It seems everything happens at once and sometimes our systems can't keep up.    It generally takes 24 hours for any changes made to take place in the Moodles system. However, that might be too long for students to get started in our classes.  Therefore, instructors have the ability to add or remove students, instructors and non-editing instructors.

See the video below:





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Working With your Zero Week

The first day or week of class can be a hectic day.  This is especially true for online students, as they don't have the advantage of seeing us face to face and asking questions.  That's why it is extremely important to not only give the student all of the information they may need in order to be successful in your course, but to also make them feel as comfortable as possible with the format.

The video below goes over some tips on how to create your zero week/zero day topic module in your Moodle course.




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