Categories and Items

Moodle has a very powerful grade book. Assignments can be broken into categories. However, since this can quickly become a complex issue, it is advised that Feasibility Teachers use extreme caution with these settings. 

Categories has 2 tabs:

• Simple
• Full

The Categories and Items view will list all assignments. The first row will be the overview of the class. This will include how grades are calculated (in this case: Simple weighted mean of grades). This would also allow the assignment to be assigned as extra credit, shows the maximum grade that can be earned and provides a way of taking action on the assignments. 

Actions can be:

• Edit settings
• Move the assignment
• Hide the assignment
• Lock the assignment

Full View

Full view is very similar but adds some additional power. From Full view, Aggregation can be broken down by categories, the lowest grades can be dropped, grade multipliers and offsets can be entered.