 Today's tech talk is on the Moodle grade book waiting. Sorry you had to wait for this one. I was out sick last week Today we're going to talk about waiting and the basics of getting started and getting your Moodle grade book waiting The grades appropriately for you. I'm going to go ahead and get to my screen sharing mode here We're in the webinar workbench Moodle course of course and I'm in the grade book view Let me just get to where the default will go when you first click into the grade book off the Moodle course start page And I'll click into the setup area. You can do this from either setup or in the categories and items view Before I forget in my follow-up message I'm going to send an email out to the LMS group if you could make it this webinar or not a couple of videos that I found helpful in Getting the concepts around waiting in your in your grade book. So I'll send a couple of links out to you also and a follow-up so basically If you saw our previous session on Moodle grade book categories We've got the an assignments category full of 10 assignments Each of these assignments has got 10 points in value each We've got a forums category and we've got a quiz category So you'll see that the max grade back up to the assignments category the max grade potential for each assignment is 10 points The max grade for each forum. I should say advanced forum that these are the seven points and The max grade for each quiz is five points Now by virtue of having the overall grade book aggregation methods set up for natural waiting Moodle itself is automatically calculating the grade percentages for the assignments and the forums and the quiz categories as 45.455% Etc. And Etc. Now let's say a quick way to Let's say imagine you wanted the the quiz category the category as a whole to Equal just a straight across the board 25% of your course total an easy way to do that would click this checkbox So any of these checkboxes beside a category and The weights column I should indicate if there's a checkbox beside the category itself or an individual Gradle item in there. If you put a check in the checkbox You can edit that in this case. I mentioned 25 percent And if I click on save changes Notice how these other category weights will change automatically in just one second And you know these other categories have adjusted a little bit to make room for that new quizzes category of 25% of the grade I Can go back to the default setting that the natural aggregation method gives me By unchecking that box and clicking save again Okay, so now we're back to the default And I should have mentioned earlier a little bit more context about how Moodle is calculating these weights for you It's basically Calculating the number of of course the number of points and the number of gradable items within a category And all that's up to do the math for you. And if you were not a math major like me, this is a helpful aggregation method Okay, let's say that I want to We've already covered how to how to make a category itself be a Have a Potential a fixed number that you want in mind versus the what the default setting is Let's say that you've decided your week 10 quiz is going to be your final quiz And maybe within the category of quizzes You want the week 10 quiz to be worth more than just the default 10 points like all the other quizzes are Let's say we want to make that 25% of the total for just within the quizzes category So I put a check in the box. I indicate that 25 to represent 25 percent When I click save changes All of these tens will be adjusted automatically for me. And there they are so Within the quiz category inside this course shell gradebook area The week 10 quiz which I could maybe I want to also rename that to be like final quiz to some context Now that is now worth 25% of all the potential point values for all the quizzes in the quiz category Independent of these advanced forms and independent of these assignments, et cetera, et cetera Pretty handy pretty sweet Now you'll see it as you as you go through the term you might notice a column in your gradebook that has got like a like a tan Color in and a given column. That's a that's a visual indicator to you That somehow either intentionally or not you may have indicated an override for a Waiting method. So if you don't want that you can go into either Where we are right now Set up or this drop down up here categories and items view And look for that the corresponding item that is has got that tan color in the column and Uncheck that click save changes and that will remove that override for that waiting and there are back to the default So we covered What waiting basically is in your course if you leave everything unweighted manually and let it wait automatically Your natural aggregation method will calculate for you Again based on how many? Gradable items and how many points within each item of potential grade point value they have It calculates by category What the weight for each category is and you can easily make an override of a category weight Or a wait for an individual gradable item with these checkboxes Make sure you always click save changes at the bottom and That covers the basics of the little gradebook waiting tech talk. Thanks for joining us We'll see you next week