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Gradebook: Hidden Grades

Learn how to troubleshoot hidden or dropped grades

Updated over 7 months ago

Purpose

The purpose of this article is demonstrate how to manage hidden or dropped grades

Note

This article will help you with these specific problems:

  • An activity such as a Quiz or Assignment that unexpectedly displays as hidden or dropped

  • A grade you can see but your students cannot see

Procedures

1. Troubleshoot a hidden Quiz

  1. On your course page, turn Edit mode on

  2. Click on the three vertical dots across from your quiz activity title. Click Edit settings

    Three vertical dots which open the Edit settings option

  3. On the quiz settings page, scroll to the Review options section

  4. For all of the Review options columns that are not grayed out, mark the selection boxes for:

  5. Click on the Save and return to course button

    The attempt

    Points

    Overall feedback

    List of review options with red arrows pointing to the second and third columns where The attempt, Points, and Overall feedback are checked

  6. On the Grader report page, look for eyeball icons that have a diagonal line through them. This means the grade is hidden from the student

  7. Click the eyeball to unhide the grade

Red arrow pointing to an eyeball icon with a red arrow through it

2. Troubleshoot a hidden Assignment or other activity

  1. Click on Grades on the course homepage

  2. Click on the dropdown and select Gradebook setup

  3. Locate the item that seems to be hidden in the Gradebook

  4. Click on Edit to open the dropdown menu for that item. If the item is hidden in the Gradebook, you’ll see the word Show

    Red arrow pointing to the word Show

  5. Click on it to unhide the item

  6. Navigate to your Grader report page

  7. On the Grader report page, make sure Edit mode is on

  8. Locate the assignment that is hidden from students and look for the eyeball with a slash through it. If you see this, it means the item is hidden

  9. Click on each eyeball to unhide the item

You may be able to click on the eyeball at the top of that column to unhide for all of the students with one click. This doesn’t always work; sometimes you have to click on the eyeballs individually

Red box highlighting several eyeball icons with a slash through them

Please contact the Moodle support team if none of these options work!

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