Make sure you have returned to your course page by clicking on the short name in the navigation block.
- Click on the assignment name How much do you know about Mahara? to view the assignment page. After a learner submits an entry, there will be an extra link with View 1 submitted assignments.
- Click on View 1 submitted assignments (or however many submitted).
- You will now see the following image. You can see that there is an option to grade the assignment from the user.
- Click on the Grade link under Status. This brings you to the following image, which is the grading page for the Online text assignment.
- To grade the submission, select the Grade drop-down where it says No Grade and select 100/100. This will award maximum marks for the assignment.
- To grade the Outcome, select the Mahara Description drop-down where it says No Outcome and choose advanced. This will assign that grade on the Outcome.
- If you have not graded this entry before, the Current grade in gradebook will be empty and show a -.
- You can optionally provide feedback here, which is recommended to help give context to the learner and other trainers at a later stage as to why the grade/outcome grading were selected. Enter in a suitable feedback like Excellent work, you really know your stuff. If you want the user to receive an e-mail once you submit your reply, then tick the Send notification Emails. Otherwise, leave it empty.
- Scroll down and click on Save changes. You will now see the submissions overview page for the assignment and the grade, comment, and Outcome information is shown.
- If you want to change the grading, you can click on Update.
- If you have a lot of entries, you may want to click on Allow quick grading which is under the optional settings. This is handy so you don't need to go in and out for every submission.
- Click on See all course grades. This brings up Grader report as follows from the gradebook, which provides an instant overview of each learner, their grades, and Outcomes. It also provides an overall average.
- To see what the learner views, log in as a user in a separate browser. You will see a similar report in the gradebook called the User report. This provides the same information, but from the learner's or user's point of view.
Now when we go to grade a submitted assignment, we not only provide a grade on the assignment alone, but also provide a scaled grade on the Outcome. This double grading provides a subjective grading and a numeric grading. This gives more context to the learner and to other trainers when they review the gradebook.
Suppose you have more activities in your course and you want to enable Outcomes for them, go ahead and edit them, and turn on Outcomes and see what happens.
It would be a good idea to go back to the table that we saw earlier and add a couple of different activities (including one which doesn't require marking in the gradebook). Then have a look at how they appear and work together.
Think about the different types of assessments and activities that are available to you in Moodle. Which of them are more suited to Outcome usage? Should more than one activity have the same Outcome? How does this help demonstrate the skill, knowledge, or understanding?
One of the more powerful parts of Moodle is the gradebook. This holds a lot of information regarding the users, their activities within the course, their grades, Outcomes, and comments or feedback from trainers.
For learners or trainers, access to the gradebook is through the Course administration in the Settings block.
Users get access to two reports: An Overview report which lists the course and the actual overall grade, and the more detailed course User report. This second report provides the activity-by-activity grading and outcome information.