{"id":1640,"date":"2015-08-17T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T01:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2015-08-19T17:27:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:27:26","slug":"importing-grades-from-another-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"1. Importing grades from another course"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI am importing a course that has\u00a0gradebook\u00a0items set up. Will my grades be imported correctly?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Did your original course\u00a0use the Sum of Grades aggregation?
\nYes!
\n<\/strong>Importing an existing course that uses the sum of grades<\/span>\u00a0(Natural) aggregation works just fine.<\/p>\n

No!<\/strong>
\nIf you intend to continue to use weighted mean of grades you are fine. \u00a0They will import just as you had them in the original course.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

What if I want to change from Sum of Grades to weighted mean of grades?<\/strong>
\nChanging aggregation from weighted mean of grades to natural<\/span> will trigger a bug. Read on…<\/p>\n

Moodle has a <\/span>known bug<\/span> that\u2019s been around for a while and it <\/span>still exists<\/span> in the most recent version of Moodle. If a course uses a weighted aggregation scheme, <\/span>switching to natural aggregation<\/span> will result in undesired outcomes that are the result of a known bug. \u00a0Specifically your weights will all be adjusted to a sum of 100 and items or categories that used a weighted aggregation scheme originally will be marked as extra credit. <\/span><\/p>\n

What is the workaround to fix this if I want to change the aggregation to natural from a weighted aggregation?<\/h3>\n

First – RECONSIDER creating the gradebook from scratch! If you want to continue along this path here are the instructions to fix this known bug.<\/h4>\n

Before you begin, be sure to <\/i>record your item and category weights<\/i>. You can find them in the Gradebook\u2019s Setup tab or menu link in the \u201cWeights\u201d column.<\/i><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. From the <\/span>Setup tab, click the \u201cEdit\u201d drop-down in the \u201cActions\u201d column for the topmost row (the category for the entire course) and then click <\/span>Edit settings.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. In the \u201cGrade category\u201d section, click the <\/span>Show more\u2026 link.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Change the \u201cAggregation\u201d drop-down to <\/span>Natural and click <\/span>[Save changes]. All weights will be reset to zero and any value previously controlled by a different weighted aggregation will be marked as extra credit (as evidenced by the + sign next to their max grade).<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Click the \u201cEdit\u201d drop-down in the \u201cActions\u201d column for any item or category marked as extra credit and then click <\/span>Edit settings.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. In the \u201cParent category\u201d section, click the <\/span>Show more\u2026 link.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Uncheck the <\/span>Extra credit checkbox and then click <\/span>[Save changes]. Repeat this process for any additional items or categories marked as extra credit.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. From the <\/span>Setup tab, check the box in the \u201cWeights\u201d column for any item or category you want to be weighted.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Fill out the \u201cWeights\u201d fields with the weights you recorded originally and click <\/span>[Save changes].<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I am importing a course that has\u00a0gradebook\u00a0items set up. Will my grades be imported correctly?\u00a0 Did your original course\u00a0use the Sum of Grades aggregation? Yes! Importing an existing course that uses the sum of grades\u00a0(Natural) aggregation works just fine. No! If you intend to continue to use weighted mean of grades you are fine. \u00a0They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299958],"tags":[40196,299388,299385,299386],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gradebook-usage","tag-import","tag-moodle-bug","tag-sum","tag-weighted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}