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Manual Grade Items

Learn how to create a grade item

Purpose

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how to manually add a grade item in the Moodle gradebook.

Procedures

  1. On your course homepage, click on the Grades tab. You will see a dropdown menu set to the default Grader report.

    Course tabs with Grades tab highlighted.

  2. Change the default selection to Gradebook setup.

    Grader report menu with Gradebook setup highlighted.

  3. On the Gradebook setup page, click on the Add grade item menu and select Add grade item.

    Add button clicked with Add grade item highlighted.

  4. Name for the grade item.

  5. Type the maximum grade for the item.

  6. If you have grade categories set up, choose the desired category here. If you haven’t set up categories, skip this step.

  7. Click the Save button at the bottom of the page.

    New grade item screen with item name, max grade, and visible save button.


    The grade item will appear in your Gradebook.

    Grade item shown in gradebook.

  8. Click on the dropdown menu and select Grader report.

    Grader report menu with grader report highlighted.

  9. To manually add a numerical grade, first make sure you are in Edit mode.

    Edit mode button.

  10. Type the score in the box in the student's row in the item column and save.

92 typed in score box.

Note

If you want to copy your course in the future, the ONLY way manually added grade items will copy is if you do a full course import. If you deselect even one item during the import, NONE of these items will import.

Please contact us if you need direct assistance with the Gradebook!

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