Customizing Grading Scheme
By default, EduBrite has a default grading implementation which may or may not suffice your needs. System provides a set of example grading schemes those can be imported in your site.
Imported grading schemes
These imported grading schemes description covers the grading criteria. If some change is needed in these example for your case, these schemes can be edited to apply the change or you can create a copy of these grading scheme and update the copied version.
Any of the custom grading scheme can be set as default grading scheme for your site by clicking green checkmark button present in Default column.
Creating Custom Grading Scheme
A new customized grading scheme can be craete, here is how you can do it. We'll cover one example to explain the steps required.
Step1: Open the course session settings, and enable the grading option in the course session
Step2: Click on the Grades button on course session details, and check the current grading scheme. You will see it is using default scheme.
Click on "Create New Grading Scheme"
Step3: You will see the grading scheme has been overridden now, click on Edit Grading Scheme button. If you want to undo the overriding click on Reset button.
Step 4: The edit grading page remains disabled till the scheme is in Active state. Click on Deactivate to begin editing it.
Step5: Once you deactive, all fields will become editable again, for this example we want to make the grading to consider only quiz scores, so let's make Lesson_Read categorie's weight equal to zero, and change the weight of Quiz_Completed category to 100 (percent). And finally click on Activate button again
Step6: Now we are pretty much done, except if you have some learners in the course session, who have their grades already computed, you can re-apply the grading rule to have their scores recalculated. Open the Grades list page for the corse session, here you can click on Apply Grading Rule link in the sidebar, to re-apply rule on all learners (except those who have already awarded the course session, which you would see by the presence of a ribbon icon). If you want to apply rule on awarded learners as well, click on the Apply Rule link for the specific learner.
Re-using the same grading scheme for other course sessions
While editing the course session, you will have option to reuse the newly created scheme in other course sessions in the same group. Grading schemes can be created beforehand as well, by going to the Grading Scheme list page which shows all schemes available in a microsite.
Setting a new Default Grading Scheme
You can create a custom grading scheme and set that as a default for the site. When you create a new course-session, if a custom default scheme is set, then it will get linked to the new course sessions created afterwards.
To set default grading scheme -
- Access Grading Scheme list page
- Using the green checkbox in default colum you can set any custom grading scheme as default grading scheme for your site.
Grading Rule Variables
Variable | Description |
SUM | Sum of points for all units in a given category. |
AVG | Average of points for all units in a given category. |
WSUM | Weighted sum of points for all units in a given category. |
WAVG | Weighted average of points for all units in a given category |
COUNT_SCORED_ASSIGNMENT | Count of units corresponding to evaluated assignments in a given category |
COUNT_ASSIGNMENT | Count of assignments in a given category |
TOTAL_ASSIGNMENT_POINTS_AVL | Total points available from all assignments in the category |
NUM_TESTS_PASSED | Number of tests passed |
AVERAGE_TEST_SCORES | Sum of average score on individual tests |
NUM_UNITS | Number of scorable grading units in the category |
CATEGORY_SCORE | Score in a given category |
CATEGORY_WEIGHT | Weight of a given category |
CATEGORY_DENOMINATOR | Category Denominator |
CATEGORY_WEIGHTED_SCORE | Weighted Score in a given category (final) |
TOTAL_TESTS | Total tests |
TOTAL_SURVEYS | Total surveys |
TOTAL_LESSONS | Total lessons |
TOTAL_SCORMS | Total scorms |
GR_TESTS | Total Gradable tests |
GR_SURVEYS | Total Gradable surveys |
GR_LESSONS | Total Gradable lessons |
GR_SCORMS | Total Gradable scorms |
PENDING_TESTS | Pending (not passed / incomplete) tests count |
PENDING_SURVEYS | Pending (incomplete) surveys count |
PENDING_LESSONS | Pending (not fully read, based on lesson's completion criteria) lessons count |
PENDING_SCORMS | Pending (incomplete) scorms count |
PENDING_GR_LESSONS | Pending gradable lessons count |
PENDING_GR_TESTS | Pending gradable tests count |
PENDING_GR_SURVEYS | Pending gradable surveys count |
PENDING_GR_SCORMS | Pending gradable scorms count |
COMPLETED_TESTS | Completed (passed) tests count |
COMPLETED_SURVEYS | Completed surveys count |
COMPLETED_LESSONS | Completed lessons count |
COMPLETED_SCORMS | Completed scorms count |
NGRP | Number of gradable lesson's pages |
TOTAL_GR_NON_GR_ASSIGNMENT | Total Gradable + Non Gradable Assignments in a given category |
COMPLETED_GR_NON_GR_ASSIGNMENTS | Completed (submitted) assignments in a given category |
EVALUATED_GR_NON_GR_ASSIGNMENTS | Evaluated assignments in a given category |
PENDING_GR_NON_GR_ASSIGNMENTS | Pending assignments in a given category |
Predefined Grading Categories
- All - A catch all category that can be used to fetch all units from learner's grades while creating custom grading scheme
- LESSON_READ - All lesson completion related grading units are recorded against this category
- SCORM_ATTEMPT - All scorm attempt related grading units are recorded against this category
- SCORM_COMPLETED - All scorm completion related grading units are recorded against this category
- QUIZ_COMPLETED - All test/quiz completion related grading units are recorded against this category
- EXAM_QUIZ_COMPLETED - All scheduled exams (tests delivered using Events) completion related grading units are recorded against this category
- COURSE_COMP_EXAM_QUIZ_COMPLETED - Final scheduled exams (tests delivered using Events) completion related grading units are recorded against this category
- Custom categories - you can also add custom categories and then link the assignments to those categories. Assignment related grading units get recorded against the custom categories. Each assignment has to be linked to a custom category
Course Session Management
- Course Session Creation
- Course Session Configuration (Settings)
- Course Session Module level Scheduling
- Managing Learners/ Instructors
- Self Enrollment with Approval
- Online Paid Courses (Monetization)
- Course Catalog Customization
- Restricting catalog item's visibility for group members
- Coupon Code Management
- Automatic Free Access Codes
- Monitoring Trainee's progress
- Max attempts for a quiz, allowing more attempts
- Grading
- Custom Grading Scheme
- Course Completion
- Notifications
- Embed in other sites
- Attendance Tracking
- iCal Integration (Outlook, Google Calendar)
- Sub Groups
- Controlling content access based on user's group membership
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- Instructor led trainings
- WebEx Integration (ILT)
- ReadyTalk Integration (ILT)
- GotoMeeting / GotoWebinar Integration (ILT)
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