Grading concepts FAQ
- James Croft (Unlicensed)
Grades at TAFE Queensland
Grade books, the grading system, grade items, final grades and linkages between grade items and assessment tools are pre-populated into your delivery units and should not be modified. If you encounter issues with your pre-populated grade book, it is recommended to contact your regional LMS administrator team for more information.
Grade book
A grade book contains your grading system, grade calculations, grade scheme, grade items, and view and display options. Grade items in your grade book represent all the work that you want to evaluate users on in a unit. You can evaluate specific tasks such as assignments, tests, and participation.
Any grades you enter in Grade Book for discussion grade items and assignment grade items are also synchronized back to Discussions and Assignments . This change ensures data consistency between Discussions and Grade Book, and Assignments and Grade Book.
Grading system
The grading system determines how the grade items in your grade book contribute to users’ final grades. There are three options:
· Grade items can count as a percentage of a final grade worth 100%.
· Grade items can be worth a certain amount of points that are totaled for a final grade.
· You can define a custom formula for how grade items contribute to a final grade.
Grade items
Grade items in your grade book represent all the work that you want to evaluate users on in a unit. Grade items can exist independently in your grade book, or you can associate numeric grade items with unit objects such as discussions, quizzes, and assignments. Each grade item has an entry in the grade book, which you assign a grade to for each user. Depending on the grade item type you want to create, grade items can be graded numerically or based on a grade scheme.
Grade categories
Grade categories organize and group related grade items into sections in your grade book, for example, a Writing Assignments grade category to group assignment items and a Class Participation grade category to group discussion items. Grade categories display in Manage Grades.
Calculated final grade
The final grade calculated by the grade book. You cannot adjust the final grade without adjusting grade item scores.
Adjusted final grade
You can manually change the final grade calculation without affecting grade item scores.