 Scales are what teachers can grade and assess against in a course. To access the scales available in a course, turn editing on. Go down to the settings block, grades, use the drop menu. Go to scales, view. There will be some standard or default scales made available to all courses. Naturally, the system administrator can add more custom scales that could be available in all courses. If you want to add a new scale just for your course, you can do so on this page. Add a new scale. So this might be, for example, a competency scale. And the work being assessed and graded is either going to be not yet competent or competent. And those scale values are listed from the smallest value to the largest value and they're separated by a comma. Save changes. So there you have it. We've added a custom scale and this will become available. You add an activity that can be assessed such as an assignment, a forum and so forth.