Workflow:
• Instructor configures Test LO (Set End Object Marker,Set Min/Max Score)
• Instructor configures activities in Gradebook (Set Weight, Show to User)
• Student attends Test LO (Detail is covered in Student Documentation)
• Instructor grades activities in Gradebook
• Student views Report Card(Detail is covered in Student Documentation)

Student attends test at Test LO while Instructor manages scores at Grade book. Then, student views scores result at Report Card. Test LO is considered an activity in the course. You can have multiple Test LOs, i.e. multiple activities in a course. All activities will be listed in a table/matrix mode in the Grade book.

As you know also, there are 8 types of questions in Test LO. Among the question types, 2 types ie. Extended Text and File Upload cannot be auto-calculated the score, and instructor must manually give score based on the answer given at the Extended Text and File Upload question.

If certain activities such as Outdoor Curriculum achievement, has the weight to the Final Score, then the Instructor can create a new activity, and give scores to the activity.

By definition, Grade book is an Instructor dedicated module that allows to do 3 main things:
• View in a table/matrix mode all the activities and the scores
• Manage already calculated scores and give final score
• Create a new activity to insert in the table/matrixThe view is divided in 3 areas:

The first part of the table is dedicated to aggregate the following info:
• Max Score
• Required Score/test score to pass it
• Weight for final score
• Visible/not visible to students
• This activity is used for the final score

The Second part of the table is dedicated to show student's scores per activity.

The third part of the table is dedicated to show this info:
• How many users have passed the test
• How many users have failed the test
• How many users need manual votes to open answers and file upload
• Average grade
• Standard deviation
• Maximum score
• Minimum score

Max Score and Required Score(Minimum Score) are set at Admin LO Page. Weight, Show to users and Use for final score are set at Grade book. Once Show to users is set to Yes, the student can view the score at the Report Card.

Without a good example, it is very hard to visualize the workflow of Grade book. In the following example, you are given a course with many LOs, but only one Test-type LO will be considered in the Final Score. In this Test-type LO, there are 3 questions:

1. Single Choice (auto-calculated the score, 0 or 20 point)
2. Multiple Choices (auto-calculated the score, 0 or 30 points)
3. Extended Text (Need instructor's manual grading, 50 points)

 

 

Configuring Test LO

Setting End Object Marker

If you set the LO's End Object Marker to be Yes. It meant once the student attended the LO, the student's status to the course will be automatically set to "End". As you need to do a manual grading for the Extended Text before you decide whether the student has graduated and finished from this course, so you need to set LO's End Object Marker to No.

1. In the Admin Learning Object page, click Properties tool.

2. Click Properties tab.

3. Set End Object marker to No.

Setting Minimum/Maximum Score

1. Enter the course.

2. Go to Teacher Area > Admin Learning Object menu.

3. Edit the Test LO, choose Points administration, and set the Minimum Score, e.g. 60. Ensure Maximum Score is 100.

  

Note: By default the Maximum score is 100.

 

Configuring in Grade Book

Here are some of parameter you need to configure in Grade Book, before the students start to attend the LO Test.

• Set the Show to User parameter so that student can view the Test LO's score at Report Card

• Set the Use for Final Score parameter so that Test LO's will be considered as the contribution to the final score.

• Set the Weight parameter so that Test LO's score will be calculated and contributed to the percentage of the final score. This is applicable if you have more than 1 activity in the course.

1. Enter the course.

2. Go to Teacher Area > Grade Book menu.

Note: This opens Grade Book page.

  

3. Click Modify user's vote tool for Test LO.

 

4. Set Weight to 100. As there is no other activities other than this Test LO. The score at Test LO will be contributed 100% to the Final Score.

5. Set Show to user to Yes. This allows student to see the graded Test LO score result at Report Card.

6. Set Use for final score to Yes. The Test LO score will be calculated into Final Score.

7. Click Save changes.

 

As you only have single activity i.e. Test LO, you do not require to show the Final Score to the student.

8. Click Modify User's Vote for Final score.
  
9. Set Show to User to No.



Grading in Grade Book

Assuming student 1 has taken the test with the score of 50 (see the test score result) and one question needs instructor's grading.

Student's Screen

  

You are now to grade the question and give a final score.

1. Go to Grade Book again.

2. Check any student has attended the test LO. You can see "NOT CHECK" for Student 1. This means Student 1 has attended the Test LO and need your action to check and grade the score.

3. Click Modify user's vote tool for Test LO.

 

 

4. Under the Student's scores, you can see the Test LO's score gained by student 1 so far, i.e. 50. Click on Show answer button to review the answer given by the student.

 

5. Questions 1 and 2 have been auto-graded by the system. You can overwrite the score in Assign new score for this question textboxes respectively.

6. You can also give bonus at the Bonus assigned for this text textbox.

7. You need to manually grade the Question 3. Enter the score at the Assign new score for this question textbox, eg. 5.

8. Click Save changes button. Notice that the total score (i.e. 50+5) is entered into the Score column. Specify the dates of grading at the Date column, give your remark at the comment column. Then click Save changes button.

Note: Return to Grade Book table/Matrix page. The new score has been assigned.

Note: (5) indicates the number of attempts by the student for this test. Click on (5) will show the date time attempt and the point gained at those attempts.



Note: You can see the student has tried his/her luck for higher score. You can set the Test LO's parameter so that student can only attend the test once.

Student's Screen

Student can preview the score graded by you.




Notice that the score is shown in red, indicates the score is below the required points of 60.


==================old Note =========================
The Gradebook is a teacher dedicated module that allows to do 3 main things:

• View in a table/matrix mode all the classroom activities and test votes
• Manage alredy given votes and give final vote
• Create a new activity to insert in the table/matrix
  

The view function is divided in 3 areas: the first part of the table is dedicated to aggregate the following info:• Max activity/test score

• Required activity/test score to pass it
• Weight for final score
• Visible/not visible to students
• This activity is used for the final score
• Second part of the table is dedicated to show student's results
  

The third part of the table is dedicated to show this info:

• How many users have passed the test
• How many users have failed the test
• How many users need manual votes to open answers and file upload
• Average grade
  
• Standard deviation
• Maximum score
• Minimum score
  

The area to manage activities already done is the area where the teacher can edit automatic votes or can correct the 2 kind of text answers that can not be automatically scored by the system (Free Text and File Upload).
It is also possible to edit the following test/activity properties:

• Weight
• Show to users
• Use for final score
  

From here it is also possible to manage the final grade. The new activity functions allow the teacher to manually add a new activity and assign grades to students.