Ways of tracking progress in Moodle

Ways of tracking progress in Moodle

Using

Core functions 3rd party plugins

Becky Barrington

Gradebook!• Simple grade tracker

• Use Moodle activities and / or just use gradebook

• Customise final and category grades to show ‘grade to date’ or ‘predicted grade’

• Hide grades from students or exclude grades not part of final total

• Add ‘target’ columns to aid target setting and progress

• Track progress through a range of required elements

Core function

Use as a simple tracker

Use for top level progress tracking using category scores

Teacher view of Gradebook

View all students

See grade

Feedback can also be provided

Student view of Gradebook

Students only see their own information.

Grade and feedback provided.

How?• Categories to

‘group’ work

• Set ‘aggregation’ to calculate grades

• Weightings can also be set

Moodle can do so much more..

• Than just store grades

• The gradebook can be visually enhanced by using a few other Moodle tools!

• Activity completion unlocks a range of extra functions

Core function

Activity Completion

• Activity completion can be added to most Moodle activities

– Students manually mark when complete

– Complete when conditions met

• Viewed

• Submitted

• Discussion or reply

• Works particularly well with quizzes, forums and assignments

Activity completion in action

• Student progress

• Screenshot of teacher report

• Things to consider

– Student tick items that require reading / off-line work

– Use Moodle tools where possible

– My favourite activities:

• Forums

• Submitted work to release answers

• Quizzes and assignments with pass grades

Assignments and activity completion

• Can help to make a visual tracking tool

• Activity completion options

– Submitted

– Passed

• Setting pass grades for work (such as quizzes and assignments) improves the use of the gradebook as a tracking tool.

GradebookVisual cues added when ‘pass’ grades are utilised

Core function

How?

Course Completion

• Still don’t like the gradebook view?

• If you only want to know if work is passed or not, use course completion instead.

• Set up the required items and view the or to indicate progress

• Teacher report

• Student report

Checklists• You could use this as a visual

progress bar of the course completion items.

• You could also use for students to check progress through other activities (such as meeting assignment criteria). *

*watch my pecha kucha for more ideas ;)

3rd party plugin

Summary

• Gradebook can be used to create a simple progress tracker for units of work or a more detailed grade tracker for all assessed elements of a course.

• Use activity completion and pass grades to make tracking more visual.

• Use course completion to provide a simple visual progress tracker.

Links and Contact Details

[email protected]

@bbarrington

Book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moodle-Gradebook-Edition-Rebecca-Barrington/dp/178439937X