 here for those who can't be here. Let me get into my screen sharing here. Let's go that. Get a little zoom action here. Probably put that there, I suppose. Okay. This is just a generic Moodle course shell. I created this yesterday. And all it has in it, all I've done to this course shell essentially is just renamed this news forum into what we typically call it news and announcements. And I've made 10 identical assignments on the front page. And we'll get into why and where for how I did these in a later segment. Speaking of segments though, by the way, we're only going to be meeting today about the natural aggregation today. But we've got a number of other topics. You can see, yes, this is an actual piece of paper. We're going to be covering those in the near future. So today talking about the aggregation method and later on talking about why we're making these assignments and how they appear in your grade book. So in my course shell, I go to the administration block and down to grades. This will look familiar when you see the grade spreadsheet. Excuse me. Okay. And of course, if we had students enrolled, there'd be vertically down this left column, their names, but there's no students enrolled in this course shell. You look across this row up here. There's your week one assignment, week two, et cetera, et cetera. We set these up as 10 weeks, 10 assignments, and each of those are 10 points to keep it simple. And briefly, historically, we had quite often had taken course shells into the aggregation method known as simple weighted mean of grades for a number of reasons, fairly often, to fix little niggling little issues we've had with grade book settings in the past. And sometimes we found some success in the past of moving the aggregation method over to simple weighted mean of grades. But the whole context of this webinar and the whole context of these series of webinars are going to be doing is about simplicity and responding to a lot of questions and concerns and statements, comments about the little grade book kind of getting really complex and how to use the little grade book in a simple, easy to understand fashion for both instructors and students. So we found that it's probably going to be best to move this system default aggregation method over to what was until recently known as some of grades. Now it's called natural weighting. So again, I'm in my, I see someone else just dropped in here. That's cool. Thanks. Again, I'm in this course shell is a grade book just jumped into it. And this dropdown up here under view, if I switch over to categories and items, I'll show you how you can A, make sure if you want to be on the natural application method to switch over to it and B, just to verify if you think you already are. It's a little bit varied. But again, in this course shell, all I've done is create these assignments so that they appear in the grade book. And I haven't made any grade book categories yet. We'll cover that in a future segment. But so the default overall overarching category for this course is called what the course of the self was called the webinar work bench is real creative. And over on the right under actions, I click the edit dropdown, and I go to edit settings. And once I get into there under the grade category area, I click on show more. And right here, the aggregation method. Since this course show was created yesterday, we we've reset the default setting to natural about a month to month and a half ago, maybe a little earlier. But previous to that, it might have come in existence as simple way to mean of grades. Now, this is the other part of the second most popular aggregation method on our system now. So if you want just a basically a sum of grades, it's all it's like I said earlier, it's known now as natural, the natural aggregation method for Moodle. This is the one to go with. So start with that. And of course, on here, click save changes. I shared in the chat window a few minutes ago, but doc, here's the threat that I'm going to reference here in a sec. I'll just read a couple of things about the natural aggregation method, then we'll be done essentially. So if you need that link again, if it didn't come through in the chat, let me know, I can also send it out via email. Basically, just just a brief explanation of what Moodle is calling the natural aggregation method is essentially the sum of all grades. And it's the only type of aggregation method that does not convert the grades to percentages internally. And the natural aggregation functions as a sum of apologize for my squeaky chair here, natural aggregation functions as a sum of grades when the weight boxes are left alone. And you'll see the weight boxes, we'll see those in the future segment basically. So I think wrapping up, we can say that look at the overall course aggregation method as being like the umbrella that that everything starts off with in your gradebook as far as the aggregation method goes. And again, here it is, under which if you want to go and click on cancel now, if you want to later on incorporate different aggregation methods for an individual gradeable item, or for that matter, a category of gradeable items, which again, we'll get into gradebook categories in the future segment, you're still welcome to do so. So your overarching is the default simple summing up of the students grades they've earned, underneath which optionally, if you'd like to incorporate a different aggregation method. So without risking it getting too complex at that point, we can leave it there. If you have any questions, of course, you can pop it into the chat. Or if you'd like to just continue with the email thread, I start about regarding this webinar. And with that, I think we can probably click on my stop the screen share for a sec here. Here we are again. With that that actually about wraps about what we want to cover. I didn't want to get into get into it too deep and heavy here because there's from here, there's dozens of ways we could go that would not be good for a webinar experience, basically. I encourage you to look at the Google doc that I've shared and read more up on on the simple aspect of the natural aggregation method. Just think of that is just the simple way that Moodle can calculate your grades. A lot of instructors are moving to a more simple grade book, whatever elements are using it, given Moodle, and just a simple way to calculate grades, just summing up the scores, the grades that your students earn. With that, I'll stop the recording. Any other questions follow up via the email thread. Thank you for joining and be on the lookout for next week's section segment. I believe we're going to be getting into grade book categories and how to how to deploy a good logical process for creating grade book categories of maybe assignments, the category for your quizzes, the category for other types of gradable items. So it kind of makes sense. Thanks. I'll see you next time.