Extra credit and grades over 100%

There’s an interesting discussion currently happening in the Gradebook forum – New feature discussion: Extra credit and course total scores above 100%. Thanks to Michael Skwara for starting it. These kind of discussions are just what we need to help us decide upon the best solutions for some of the less straightforward issues in the [...]

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Moodle Docs upgrade testing

I’ve been helping Eloy with Moodle Docs upgrade testing (MDLSITE-657). Due to our hacks (for displaying real names etc.) there’s lots to test before upgrading the production wiki. Any help is much appreciated. I’ve finally got around to switching to Ubuntu after my Windows XP became unbearably slow. It’s fantastic! I should have made the [...]

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Simplifying the gradebook

I recently discovered that there are lots of gradebook capabilities which provide an easy way of simplifying the gradebook for teachers, and made a start on documenting them – see Simplifying the gradebook.

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Summary statistics in the gradebook

Our gradebook improvements meeting this morning was useful. We discussed possible ways of providing summary statistics in the gradebook (MDL-18163) and concluded that more community input would be helpful in coming to a decision – see the discussion Summary statistics in the gradebook. We also talked about showing categories in the gradebook user report in [...]

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New community discussion course

We now have a new community discussion course/area/forum (I prefer the word ‘course’) for Hebrew Moodle. Thanks to Yaniv Cohen for offering to facilitate it. Elsewhere on moodle.org, the Moodle Buzz contains an interesting Ofsted report: Virtual learning environments: an evaluation of their development in a sample of educational settings. 14 of the 18 colleges [...]

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