There are a number of Moodle activities that can be graded and, therefore, work with the Gradebook. The activities that will automatically appear in the Gradebook are:

A number of other Moodle activities can also have grades and ratings assigned to them so that they also appear in the Gradebook. These include:

It is also possible to manually set up a graded item within the Gradebook, which is not linked with an activity but allows a grade to be recorded.

This book will not explain how to add all of these activities. However, Chapter 3, Adding Graded Activities, will provide an overview of the options within an assignment that is the most feature-rich of all of the graded Moodle items.