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Well, hi everybody and welcome to video number five in our gradebook series.
This is Moodle 2.5 for Humboldt State University
and we're in the gradebook full
weighted means of grades. Looking at the top of the page here, we have our plus
and minus comments, notice one of the pluses
is it does allow the weighting of a specific assignments, so a
test can have twice the value of another test.
The minus - and these are 2 kind of significant ones -
it does not do extra credit, and it will require the modification of your
calculations
if you happen to add or remove contents
in a specific category. Let's go to the left hand column,
let's go to grades, and once inside the grade selection, let's go
immediately to categories and items,
and this is the same data we have used in all
of our previous videos. We have our top category for homework, that category is
worth
30 percent. As we look at the center of the page
we notice that everything here is set
for weighted means of grades. Now, in our last
version, we had the top section as
weighted and the other sections were all
simple weighted. What we gain by full
weighted means of grades: we still have
homework worth 30 percent, as we see here
in the right hand area, with a 30 percent in the weight
column entered, but we're allowed to enter, for example, homework assignment one,
being worth twice as much as the other two
assignments, which is representative of their point value:
homework assignment one is 100, the other two items
are 50 points. In this
weight column, you put the
numerical value, or weight, as it relates
to the entire category. We want the 100 point, or homework assignment one,
to be worth twice as much as the
other two. The total value is
30 percent, so we make that assignment worth
15 percent, and the others worth
7.5. Notice the category total,
in the homework section, is 100 percent,
that's exactly how we did it the last time,
we're not talking points, we are talking
percentages. Let's come down to the research paper category,
and notice we have made similar calculations,
all adding up to 40 percent,
as we see in the category box.
This is going to involve some careful math on your part,
and, as I mentioned in the warm-up, if we were to add, for example, homework
assignments four,
we're going to have to recalculate our values
to make sure that it represents the way we want to do it.
Notice both the category and the course totals
all the way down are 100 percent, and in our weight
section, each of the boxes
totals the value of that particular category.
Homework is 30, research paper is 40,
and if we look at research paper, we have three items for 10
and two for 5. Also notice,
again, looking at research paper, that just because an item has
100, 50 or 20 points, it doesn't have to have
the specific weight - this is something you can assign,
although I do recommend being very clear in your syllabus
to ensure that there's no student confusion. As always, at the very bottom,
you're going to see
shave the changes button, this should be applied
should you modify or reconfigure an assignment. Let's say we wanted to go to
our research paper section,
make drafts and reference worth 5,
and make research paper topics worth
10. After making those changes, pressing enter,
please come to the bottom and select save changes
to make sure that those changes do take
effect. And one final point - I did mention earlier and I want to reiterate here,
that there is no extra credit
option when using full weighted means
of grades. That area that would normally have all those little checkboxes where we
could
specify in item to be extra credit are not available
in this version. Alright,
please come and see this, we'll help you set up your gradebook and come on back
for next video, where we're gonna talk about
exporting and importing to Excel.
Thanks very much - we're in Library 315 at extension
3633 - we look forward to helping you get started!