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Grade Categories

What are Grade Categories?

Within a Gradebook, you can create different Grade Items for the various tests, practical assignments, and more grade components. For the overview, it can be useful to divide these Grade Items into categories. To do this, you can  create Grade Categories.

Set up Grade Categories if you haven’t set up a Gradebook yet

1. Go to your course homepage.
2. Click Grades in the menu.
3. Then click on Setup Wizard.

1. If you haven’t  set up a Gradebook yet  , you’ll get a notification that you need to do so first.
2. After setting up the Gradebook, you will see the option: “Create a New Grade Category”  under the Setup Wizard.Click here to create your first category.

Add more Grade Categories (if the Gradebook is already set up)

1. Go back to your course’s home page.
2. Click Grades.
3. Click the Manage Grades tab.

4. Here you can see an overview of existing Grade Categories and Grade Items.

5. Click on the arrow under New and then on Category to add a new category.

Hoe stel ik een Grade Category in?

In this section, example values have been entered in the various options for illustration. Options marked with * are required to be filled in.

1. After clicking New and then Category, under the Properties tab, you’ll seeunderGeneral some general information about the Grade Category.
   • Name* is the name of the category.
   • Short Name is the abbreviation of the category (for space saving).
   • Description is the description of the category (under Show or Hide description)
   • Turn on Allow users to view description if you want students to see the description.

2. Then comes Grading: This subheading concerns settings for grading items within this category.

• Weight is the weight that this category, and therefore all digits within it, have in the calculation for the final grade.
• Turn on Allow category grade to exceed category weight if grades within this category can exceed the normal maximum (for example, a 105% or a 10.5).
• Distribution is how the Grade Items within this category are weighted.

• Manually assign weight to items in the category betekent dat je zelf de gewichten van de Grade Items in de category kunt aanpassen.
• Distribute weight by points across all items in the category means that the maximum number of points you can get for a Grade Item is also the relative weight for that assignment.

• Distribute weight evenly across all items means that each grade item in the category has the same relative weight for the category grade.
  • Number of highest non-bonus items to drop for each user is how many of the highest numbered assignments are not included in the calculation.
  • Number of lowest non-bonus items to drop for each user is how many of the lowest numbered assignments are not included in the calculation.

An example of how categories can be classified by weight:The Exam grades are set to Manually assign weight and the Practical grades are set to Distribute weight by point.

3. Than you will be taken to Display Options (you may need to click Show Display Options), where you can adjust settings for displaying the category’s final grade to students.

• Student View
  • Turn  on Display class average to users if you want to show the average grade of the entire class to the students.
  • Turn  on Display grade distribution to users if you want to show the distribution of grades of the entire class in a graph to the students.
• Override display options for this item allow you to override the Gradebook’s display settings for the students.
  • Points Grade shows the points earned.
  • Weighted grade shows the weighting of the grade.
  • Grade scheme symbol shows the grade scheme.
  • Grade scheme colour adds colour to the grade.

4.Scroll nu weer naar boven op de pagina naar Restrictions.

• Turn  on Hide from Users to not (yet) make the category visible to the students.
• Availability includes options to make the category available only within a certain time.
  • With Has Start Date , you can set a date and time when the category should become available to the students.
  • With Has End Date you can set a date and time when the category should no longer be available to the students.
  • Turn  on Display In Calendar if this start and/or end date should be set in the calendar of the course.

• Release conditions are options to make the Grade Category available to students if a certain condition is met. An example of this could be to make the Grade Category available if a student has visited all Content Topics.
  • If you have added one or more release conditions, you can also choose whether the Grade Category should become available if one or all of the release conditions are met.

5. Save the changes by clicking:

• Save and Close to save and close the settings.
• Save and New to save and create a new Grade Category.
• Save to save and continue editing settings.
• Cancel to close the settings without saving the changes.