Using the built-in LATTE Gradebook is the most seamless way to record and reflect students’ grades on LATTE-based activities. The Gradebook can hold and organize all the graded activities created in a LATTE course, including Quizzes, Assignments, and Forums. You can also add Manual Grade Items to reflect work done outside of LATTE, as well as Grade Categories to organize and subdivide the Gradebook.
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, top right), the Course Management panel will open.To manually add a grade item:
, top right), the Course Management panel will open.To add data to this column manually, click Turn editing on in the Grader report (see Manually Edit Grades & Grade Overrides in Moodle), or import grades from a spreadsheet (see Import Student Data into Moodle).
Note: When importing from a spreadsheet, you can also choose to add spreadsheet columns as new grade items rather than mapping them onto existing items within the Moodle gradebook.
Aggregation method refers to the mathematical strategy for calculating a total grade from the various graded items in the Gradebook. All graded items are first converted into percentage values by dividing the student's real score by the number of points the item is worth; then, those percentage grades are aggregated into a total score for the course.
The LATTE Gradebook includes three Grade Aggregation methods: Simple Weighted Mean of Grades, Weighted Mean of Grades, and Natural. Simple Weighted Mean is the default aggregation method in LATTE. Each method calculates the overall grade for the course in slightly different ways, and all three can be good options depending on your grading needs.
To change the Aggregation method in your LATTE Gradebook, first go to the Gradebook Setup tab. You can set the Aggregation method in the course-level Category's settings page, which you can access by selecting Edit > Edit Settings on the first line of the chart, as pictured here.
See the three additional tabs in this box for more detailed descriptions of each aggregation method.
Simple Weighted Mean is the default aggregation method in the LATTE Gradebook.
The Simple Weighted Mean method does not include a Weights column; instead, it assigns relative weight to each item based on the number of points it is worth. To make an item worth twice as much as another in the Course Total, it must be worth twice the number of points.
Items can be marked as Extra Credit in the Simple Weighted Mean aggregation method. When an item is marked as Extra Credit, any points assigned will be added to the student's total score as extra points, without affecting the denominator in the calculation.
All the actual points earned (including any extra credit) are added together. This sum is divided by the sum of available points (not including any extra credit) to produce a raw score that is converted to a percentage.
Weighted Mean bases the relative value of each graded item entirely on its weight, which is the number assigned in the Weights column. By default, all items are given the same weight, a weight of 1.0; this means that each item will have the same contribution to the Course Total, regardless of the number of points assigned to it. To make certain items worth more or less than others, you can adjust the values in the Weights column. You can set the weights to any numbers, as long as they are in proportion to each other. To make an item worth twice as much as another, you would give it a weight twice as high.
Weighted Mean can be a good fit for many grading strategies:
Extra Credit is not available in Weighted Mean aggregation.
Each item's percentage score is first multiplied by its weight. The weighted scores are added together, and that sum is divided by the sum of the weights to produce a single raw score, which is converted to a percentage.
Natural aggregation calculates grades as the sum of all grade values, scaled by their relative weights. The Weights column in the Natural method always adds up to 100.
If no changes are made to the Weights column, the values in the Weights column will simply reflect the relative weight of each item based on its number of points; for example, if an item worth 5 points has a natural weight of 1.0, an item worth 10 points will have a natural weight of 2.0.
If you alter an item’s point value by updating its Max Grade in its settings, the weights in the Gradebook will adjust accordingly.
If you need to alter the weight of an item while leaving its points the same, you can do so by checking the box in the Weights column and entering the desired weight out of 100. The remaining items' weights will adjust accordingly.
The Natural aggregation method is very flexible and can accomplish several different aggregation goals.
Items can be marked as Extra Credit in the Natural aggregation method. When an item is marked as Extra Credit, any points assigned will be added to the student's total score as extra points, without affecting the denominator in the calculation.
If weights are not modified, the sum of the student's points earned are simply presented as the student's total score out of the sum of available points.
If weights are modified, grades are calculated as follows:
Each grade item's weighted Maximum Grade is calculated by multiplying the Course Total by the item's weight percentage. The grade item's raw score (i.e. points earned divided by the unweighted Maximum Grade) is then multiplied by the weighted Maximum Grade to scale it appropriately. The weight-adjusted scores are added together, and this sum is presented as the student's total score out of the sum of available points.
It is recommended that faculty use the weighted mean of grades aggregation as this will allow you to use percents for categories of each assignment type in the course. Overall, you want to ensure that these category percents are properly listed in the course syllabus as this will help students to understand why they received certain grades on assignments.
To add comments to the grader report,
1. Click on Grades and it will open the Grader Report.
2. Click on the assignment title that you want to grade
3. On the next screen, click on View all submissions and then click Grade to begin adding comments
4. Click on Comments to add your feedback and then click Save comment.
5. Then, click Notify students and Save and Show Next to grade the next assignment.
The Overview report is the full list of all enrollments (as an instructor and a student) under your name.
The User report includes all assignments that a user has completed in the selected course. The user report is the most accurate version of a user's grade at the present time in the course.
To begin grading in the Single View,
1. Click on Grades (and make sure that you are in the View part of the Grader Report)
2. Then, go to the Assignment that you want to grade.
3. Click on the pencil icon next to that assignment to open the Single View
4. This will open the Single View for that assignment.
In this area, you can add the Grade and any feedback that you have for that student.
5. When you are done, click Save and the grades will be shown to students in LATTE.
At the start of the term, there are some items that must be completed.
Here are some tips:
1. Set up your categories for the assignments that students will complete in your course.
2. Creating Gradebook items
3. Decide on the Gradebook aggregation that works for your course.
Assignment grading will occur at different times in the course.
Here are some tips:
1. Prepare for the grading through the Single View and adding substantial comments.
2. Ensure that you understand how to do overrides and extensions for students in your course.
3. Ensure that all grades are released to students so that they can see the grade and the feedback for their submission.
The end of the semester grading is very important.
Here are some tips:
1. Ensure that all assignments have been graded and released to students.
2. Make sure that the Course Total populates a final score for all students (Please contact an Instructional Technologist if you need assistance with this.)
3. Submit your final grades via Workday.