Grades in Moodle are visible through the Grader Report, the same place that you enter manual grades for manual grade items. However, if you want to see a more simple display of a given student’s grades, you can use the User Report.

1. In the Administration block, click  to go to the gradebook.
2. Click the  tab at the top if you’re not there already.
3. Click the  link just below the list of tabs.
4. You’ll be taken to the User Report. This will show you a layout of all of the grade items in your course. Use the  drop-down to select a specific student.
5. Your User Report will change to that student’s report. The information you see is what the student will see when he or she checks his or her grades.

Once grade items are created in the gradebook, grades must be entered into them for grades to compute. Grades for activities should not be entered through the gradebook, but instead through the activities themselves. For more information, please consult individual articles on grading Discussion Forums, Online Assignments, Online Quizzes, or Turnitin Assignments.

To enter grades for manual grade items:

1. In the Administration block, click  to go to the gradebook.
2. In the Grader Report, click the  button (if editing isn’t already enabled).
3. Locate your manual () grade item. The cell will now contain an empty text box ().
4. Enter numerical grades into the text boxes. You can press the Tab key to move down a row. Be careful to only enter grades for manual items!
5. Click the  button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

When using a Weighted Mean of Grades aggregation, every item and category can be provided a weight. Instead of adding up point totals (as the Natural aggregation method does). Weighted Mean of Grades will calculate a course total by proportions of weights assigned to individual items.  To calculate grades this way, you must fill out weights for items and categories:

1. In the Administration block, click  to go to the gradebook.
2. From the gradebook, click the  tab near the top.
3. You will see a  column in the list of grades.
4. For each graded item (manually entered and activities) Under the  column, there will be text boxes next to each grade item and grade category. Change these weights from their current (automatically calculated) weights to the weight you want the item/category to have.
5. Moodle automatically adjusts the weights for other items so that they add up to 100%.
6. Click the  button near the bottom.

A grade category is a gradebook container for one or more grade items. Grades across items inside a category will be aggregated into a Category Total, much the same way that grades across a course will be agregated into a Course Total. Grade categories can use specific aggregations (e.g. Sum of Grades, Weighted Mean of Grades) within themselves to give you more precise control over how grades are calculated. Finally, they are also useful for weighting grades: if, for example, you have multiple quizzes in a course but want them to all together comprise a certain percentage of the overall course grade, you can create a category to hold them.

1. In the Administration block, click  to go to the gradebook.
2. From the gradebook, click the  tab near the top.
3. From the Categories and Items view, click the  button at the bottom of the page.
4. In the Category Name field, enter a name for this grade category. The name will be visible to both you and your students, so be descriptive.
5. Click the button near the bottom. There is no need to change any other options.

A grade item is any activity or gradebook entry that is assessed via a numerical grade. In Moodle, there are two types of grade items: activities and manual items. Activities are grade items that involve some sort of online interaction (e.g. an online assignment, an online quiz, a Turnitin assignment, etc.). Any activity you create in your Moodle course will automatically generate a grade column in the gradebook. Manual items are graded entries that are not tied to an online activity (e.g. an in-class activity, a participation grade, a blue book exam, etc.). Manual items must be created directly through the gradebook:

1. In the Administration block, click  to go to the gradebook.
2. From the gradebook, click the  tab near the top.
3. From the Categories and Items view, click the  button at the bottom of the page.
4. In the Item Name field, enter a name for this grade item. The name will be visible to both you and your students, so be descriptive.
5. Leave the Grade Type set at . Other Grade Types can cause problems.
6. The Maximum grade will default to 100.00.  You can change this if you desire to.
7. 1. Click the  button near the bottom.

If you want to weight this graded item

1. Under the Parent category check the box next to  .
2. Enter the weight you want to assign this graded item .
3. If using categories select the category for this graded item 
4. Click the  button near the bottom.