1. Review at least the student view to grading and edit the view if necessary.
Click Managing tools > Course grading or Grades below the course name.
By default, Grader report opens. Click the grid icon after a student’s name and you will see that student’s view to course grading. You can access the same view also through the dropdown menu at the top of the view with the text Grader report. Choose User Report from the dropdown menu. By default, the student sees the activities to be evaluated, as well as their grades and feedback.
If you notice that the activities are not in the order that the course progresses, you want to, for example, group the course activities, assignments, or exams sequentially, or the student view shows activities that do not affect the assessment, choose Gradebook setup in the dropdown menu. You can move assessment items by clicking the two-headed arrows on the left-hand side in the order you want and hide assessment items by clicking Edit on the right-hand side.
If you hide items that are not related to course assessment, also change their Weights to zero so that their points do not affect the Course total.
If different grading scales are used in different assignments (for example, some of the assignments on a scale 0-5 and some on a scale failed-passed), hide the Course total because it cannot calculate the sum of the grades properly. Click Edit on the right-hand side of Course total and select Hide. Finally, click Save changes.
If all assignments are graded with points, you can leave the Course total visible. It shows the sum of the points.
If all your course assignments are graded with points and you hide some assessment items, choose Course grade settings > scroll to the bottom of the page and select Show totals excluding hidden items so that the Course total appears below the assessment items.
Now the student view shows the assessment items in the order you want, and the Course total is not visible at all, or the Course total shows the sum of points received by the student.
2. Add Grade letters to the course.
Choose Grade letters in the dropdown menu.
To change the default click Edit.
Tick the box next to Override site defaults.
Delete the default grades and percentages.
Add the grade and the percentage of the total points that must be equal to or exceeded to get the grade (for example, 5 and 90%, 4 and 80%, etc.). The last grade should be 0 and 0%.
If all assignments are graded on a scale of failed-passed, add the grade Passed and the percentage 99.99% and the grade Failed and 0% to the scale.
Click Save changes and you will see the new grading scale for the course, showing the highest and lowest percentages to get a particular grade.
3. Display the grade in the Course total both on the Grader report and User report.
Choose Gradebook setup in the dropdown menu > The first item in the listing is your course name. On the right-hand side of the name, click Edit> Edit settings. Under the heading Category total click Show more > Grade display type. Select an option from the drop-down menu that mentions Letter either alone or combined with real in brackets.
If you want the student to see in real time how the grade develops as points are accumulated for assignments, choose Grade category> Show more and untick the box in front of Exclude empty grades.
Now the grade increases as assignments are graded and the course total amount of points increases. The student view shows the passing grade as soon as the number of points required for the first passed grade is exceeded. This happens even if not all the assignments have yet been successfully completed.