Gradebook

In the Gradebook section of the course, you can assess Students’ activity in various aspects of the learning process. By default, the Gradebook reports display grades for various existing course elements (Quizzes, SCORMs) and the course completion status, but you can also create custom Gradebook items and manually grade them using a custom scale, which you can configure differently in each course. The Gradebook section also allows you to configure course certificates and automatic course completion criteria.

Gradebook reports

To access the Gradebook reports, enter the Gradebook section of the course. There are two reports available:

• The report with the grades for all the Students of the course.

  You can see the complete list of course Students and their grades directly in the Gradebook tab when you enter the Gradebook section of the course. For each Student you can see the following information in this report: name, group, course enrollment time, answer to the course registration question (if any), course completion status, and all the existing grades in respective columns for each graded item.

   

  The Gradebook report for the Students of the course can be filtered by group and exported in XLS/CSV formats by clicking the Export button at the top of the page. The Full View button allows to open the report in a new tab.

• The report with the grades for each individual Student.

  To access the grades of a specific Student, click the name of the Student in the list in the Gradebook tab. You will be redirected to a page with detailed information about the Student (name, username, email, group), course completion status and details and course certificate download button, existing grades for quizzes and SCORMs with the options to export detailed quiz results next to each quiz grade, course registration question answer with the option to edit the answer manually, and the custom Gradebook items with the drop-down menus that allow to manually grade them.

   

  The individual Student report can be exported in the PDF format by clicking the PDF button at the top of the page.

Gradebook scale

You can create a custom scale of grades in each course. You can use the grades from the scale to grade custom Gradebook items and graded assignments.

To create a scale of grades, follow these steps:

1. In the Gradebook section of the course, click on the Gradebook scale tab at the top of the page.
2. Click New to add a grade. The new grade configuration page will open.
3. Configure the parameters for the new grade:
   • Enter name: specify the name of the grade, e.g. 'Good', 'Satisfactory' etc.
   • Min. % value: specify the lowest value (in percent) of the range that this grade covers .
   • Max % value: specify the highest value (in percent) of the range that this grade covers.

   Note: You can create as many grades as you want but together they should cover the whole range from 0 to 100%, for example, you can create three grade items in your scale: 'Poor' (0% to 33%), 'Good' (34% to 66%) and 'Excellent' (67% to 100%).

4. Click Save to save the grade. You will see the new grade in the Gradebook scale.

You can assign grades manually only to the custom Gradebook items. Grades are automatically assigned to the native JoomLMS quizzes' scores according to the percent of the correct answers a user provided. To see the grade for a specific quiz result, hover the cursor over the respective element in the corresponding quiz column next to the Student whose grade you would like to check.

Gradebook items

If you need to include some grades into the Gradebook report (e.g. grades for some offline activity), you can create custom Gradebook items that are graded manually.

To add a custom Gradebook item:

1. In the Gradebook section of the course, click on the Gradebook items tab at the top of the page.
2. Click New to add a custom graded item. The new item configuration page will open.
3. Configure the parameters for the new graded item:
   • Enter name: specify the name of the graded item, e.g. 'Final exam'.
   • Category: select the category of the graded item from the drop-down menu.

     Note: You can edit the list of available categories in the administrator area, see Administrator documentation - Configuration - Gradebook.

   • Description: enter the graded item's description, if any. The description will not be visible for Students.
4. Click Save to save the graded item. You will see the new item as a separate column in the Gradebook section.

To mark a custom Gradebook item, click on the name of the Student who should receive the grade in the Gradebook section, select the grade from the drop-down menu next to the respective item and click Save at the top of the page.