 Okay, everybody get started now Today's tech talk webinar is on the little grade book categories And let me get my screen share going here Okay, right now. I'm showing of course our little horse shell that you may have remembered from last time and back last week We had just a series of assignments And I had the week one assignment week two assignment, etc. So now I've got some discussion forums and And some quizzes so I have a collection of week one activities forums assignments and quizzes So today we're going to categorize these um if you want in the grade book I should say I was gonna say um if you're If you're running a really super simple motor course with just a handful of any kind of gradeable items You may not need to even bother want to bother with categorizing these items But if you're starting to use use gradeable items in your course all the way down the run of the term As you can see We have 10 instances each of the forum assignment and quizzes here, which that'll be of course 30 in your grade book Which we'll take a look at right now So as we scroll from left to right There's quite a few items in there Let's move into the categories and items View of the grade book I'm looking at my notes over here in case you're wondering why i'm looking down. Yes, paul uses paper So here's here's the uh the grade book view in the categories and items view So you'll see all the assignments You see all those discussion forums And you'll see all the quizzes and so you might think it might get to a point here Or it might be good to have some categories set up in your in your motor grade book Let me just list off some of the basic benefits of utilizing categories versus not utilizing them in your motor grade book First of all, of course, you'll see here in a minute. Um, there there can be a better level of visual organization in your grade book You can have subtotal Subtotals and waiting for different categories of items separate from that overarching Aggregation method i mentioned last week you can have different aggregation methods with them For the gradable items within a category if you like You can indicate to drop or keep the highest grade. Um, both that aspect and the Waiting of categories in your grade book. We're going to cover those in in future week segments And related to that is you can also employ different aggregation methods in one grade book So that relates to what i just mentioned to this. So For this session, we're just going to get into why and how to go ahead and implement Some categories in your little grade book So again, i'm in the categories and items view of my grade book and that drop down it got up here That's where it is how you get to that So at the bottom of the screen Look at my notes over here. There we go at the bottom of the screen. You'll see that category I'll click into that I'm going to go and click expand all we won't cover everything Well, here we go So let's say i'm going to go ahead and make a category for all my forums first Give it a logical name up here You'll see here is where if you if you wanted to you could indicate an aggregation method separate and different from the overarching one Of natural which again is the system default Which is where we kind of talked about what we did talk about this on last week So we're going to keep this category aggregation at natural also We'll talk in a future segment about the exclude empty grades feature And some ideas involving the keeping the highest or dropping the lowest scores in a grade collection of gradeable items Basically to utilize that you'll need to have all those gradeable items within that category have the same point value But we'll cover more of that later I'm going to go and scroll on down and click on save changes We'll make this new category called forums So it should come in at the bottom of the View here. There we go forums Let's make another one for assignments Same straightforward process Click that add category button And we'll just call it assignments And like everything else in loodle you can create something And then later on go revisit that items Settings to make any changes too My high cpu usage is affecting something So here we've got the forums. We have the assignments category and we'll make one more for quizzes now You know like our little secret elab setup in here This isn't the media zone. It's a separate lab undisclosed location Okay Let's go ahead and get all of the assignments into the assignment category. It's just a simple matter of Putting a check in the box for each one of these over on the right side So just that one assignment in Through one there we go Okay, and at the bottom Let's move selected items to the Still the check was those assignments. Yeah Always gonna double check yourself down to the assignments And here that churns for a minute and that puts them all in the assignments category So speedy Okay, we'll do the same with the forums form 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Okay, these are the forums We're going to move those into the forums category I'll also send out a link in my follow-up message to the little about org page for little categories Now let's move all the quizzes into the quiz category move selected items to quizzes Okay, so if you look carefully you'll see The forums category Contains all of the individual forums The assignments category contains all the individual assignments any other indented under there and then the same with the quizzes Let's just say for example that we wanted to move A category or for that matter any individual item Again, we're within the categories and items view and you get a lot of organization done for your Move a great book. Let's just say we wanted to move the assignments up To appear above the forums category. It'd be a simple matter of this little icon right here And that's how you move things within the great book You'll have quite the the click and drag we have the luxury of having on the little course star page But when you click this little icon up here, it gives you some targets And if you worked in versions of moodle prior to version two, you this looks familiar Put the little targets up here. So the target if I want to move the categories go to the very top here very straightforward And that is about the gist of what we wanted to cover today The why and the really the basics of how to create categories In your move a great book We're going to talk again in the future. Like I said about waiting About keeping the lowest and highest scores a bunch of other Detailed aspects of the of the move a great book. I'm going to go to click on stop share And again, I'm going to go ahead and send out a follow-up message with a link to the recording version of this webinar and a link to like I said earlier of the moodle.org resource page for the topic of moodle great book categories Thanks for joining and we'll see you next week. I think next week we're talking about Yeah A little great book category waiting. So I'd like to wait for that. Have a good week