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Add Extra Credit

• Publication date November 30, 2017

Introduction

Instructors may add extra credit items to the Moodle gradebook. Note: You cannot make an item extra credit at the time you are creating it. Create the gradebook item or Moodle activity you want to use as extra credit first, then follow the steps below.

From the course course homepage, click Grades.

From the main page of the gradebook, click Setup .

Locate the grade item or activity you want to make extra credit, and click Edit->Edit Settings

In the settings, tick the Extra credit checkbox under the Parent category heading, and click Save Changes.

You now have an extra credit item, as denoted by the  +  symbol in the Max Grade column. Note that the available points in the Max Grade for this assignment will no longer be counted in the sum total of points available.

You may optionally override the natural weight of grade items, including extra credit, by ticking the box next to the weight and entering a custom percentage.

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How to add an extra credit assignment

This tip assumes that you are using the “natural” grade setting (also known as the “points system”). If you want to add an extra credit assignment in your gradebook in Moodle, first create the assignment either by adding the assignment from the course’s main page (this is my recommendation; get started instructions here ) or by adding a manual grade item (see instructions here ).

Next, edit the settings on the item to make it an extra credit assignment.  There is a special way to do this in Moodle. Below are the instructions from Moodle documentation site :

To change a graded item to an extra credit item for Natural (points system) gradebook setup: 1. Go to Course administration > Gradebook setup. 2. Find the extra credit item. To the right of the item, click “Edit > Edit Settings.” 3. On the Grade Item Edit Settings page, scroll to the bottom and check “Extra credit.” 4. Click the “Save changes” button.

After you set this up confirm how it works by looking at your gradebook setup page. Your extra credit item will be in your gradebook’s list of graded items at the point value your assign. However, you should see that the total points for your course remains unchanged. If we think of the final grade in the natural, or points system, gradebook setup being a fraction with the total earned points as the numerator and the total points possible as the denominator, adding an extra credit assignment will result in the points earned being added to the numerator, but not the denominator for the final grade calculation.

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You cannot make an item extra credit at the time you are creating it. You must first create a gradebook item or the Moodle activity you want to use as extra credit, then follow the steps below.

• Click Gradebook setup from the "Course administration" menu.

• Locate the grade item or activity you want to make extra credit and select Edit settings from the "Edit" drop-down.

• In the settings, check the Extra credit checkbox in the "Parent category" section. If you see the not allowed cursor when trying to check the extra credit box, try choosing a "Grade category."
• Click Save changes .

• You now have an extra credit item, as denoted by the  + symbol in the "Max grade" column. Note that the available points in the max grade column will no longer be counted in the sum total of points available.

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1. Click on the Grades   Setup tab on the top left pull-down menu:  

2. Then click on three dots (...) , then select Edit grade item:

3. Under Parent Category check Extra Credit .

4. Click the Save changes button when you are finished:

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Extra credit behaves differently in Moodle depending on the grade aggregation.  

• Mean of grades (with extra credits): A value of 0 does nothing. Any other value is used to multiply the grade and add it to the total after the computation of the mean. This grade is not used in the computation of the mean, however, only added afterwards. Additionally, this cannot bring the category total over its maximum grade unless grades over 100% are enabled by the site administrator (since 1.9.5). This grade item is not counted either in the denominator used to compute the category mean. 
• Natural: Extra credit is a checkbox, not a number. Normally, with Natural, the category's maximum grade is the sum of the maximum grades of all its grade items. If one of them is set as "Extra Credit", however, its maximum grade is not added to the category's maximum grade, but its grades will be. This way it is possible to achieve maximum grade (or grades over maximum if enabled by the site administrator) in the category without getting the maximum grade in all the grade items. 
• Simple weighted mean of grades: Extra credit is a checkbox, not a number. The "Extra Credit" grades are counted in the numerator used to compute the category mean, but not the denominator. See here for more information. 

For the purposes of this guide, we will assume the aggregation method is Simple weighted mean of grades.  

In Grade book Setup, click Edit>Edit Settings .

Under the Parent Category section check Extra Credit and select Save Changes .

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Before you start , you will need:

• An Instructor of record or Other editing teacher role in a Bryn Mawr Moodle course
• A course gradebook set up to aggregate   category and course-level grades using the Natural or Simple weighted mean method . See  Moodle: Set up a course gradebook or set up a consultation with an educational technologist . 

Make a Moodle Activity extra credit

• Create the Activity (see Manage Activities in Moodle ). 
• Click Grades in the top menu of your course page.
• Click the  Grader report  drop-down menu, and   select  Gradebook setup .
• Find the activity that will be extra credit, click   (Cell actions), and choose Edit grade item .
• Check the Extra Credit box in the Parent category section.

• Click Save changes .
• A small + will appear next to the extra credit item in the Gradebook to remind you that it is being counted for extra credit. 

Offer extra credit for non-Moodle activities

• Click the  Grader report drop-down menu, and select Gradebook setup .
• Click Add grade item .
• Type in an Item n ame (such as "Extra credit for ..." )
• Set Maximum grade to the maximum number of extra credit points you will award.
• Check the  Extra credit box .
• Click Show more to select the category that the extra credit should be included in if you haven't already.

Count a Grade category as extra credit

• Click Grades in the top menu of the course page.
• Click the Grader report drop-down menu and choose Gradebook setup .
• Click Add Category .
• Type in a category Name, edit other settings if desired, then click  Save changes .
• On the  Gradebook Setup page, find the new category, click (Cell actions), and choose  Edit category.
• Check Extra credit in the   Parent category  section .

• Add the Activities and Grade items that you want to count as extra credit to this category, 

Warning: DO NOT check the extra credit box for individual activities and grade items within an extra credit category. You should only check the box at the category level OR the item level, but not both.

Videos & further reading on extra credit in Moodle

• MoodleDocs:  Gradebook FAQ — Weights and extra credits

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Extra Credit Assignments in Moodle

Locate the assignment and click on Edit then Edit Settings .

Locate the Parent category area, check the Extra credit box and click on  Save changes .

Notice that now in the Categories and items area, a ‘+’ will appear in the ‘Max grade’ column for an extra credit assignment.

Note: When the extra credit checkbox is ticked, the grade item’s maximum grade is not added to the category’s maximum grade, resulting in the possibility of achieving the maximum grade in the category without having the maximum grade in all the grade items.

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Moodle: Grading: LSU Overview

Grading in Moodle involves several components, best practices, and guidelines to enhance the grading process and facilitate ease of use. Included in this is the Moodle Gradebook, a robust tool for faculty to use to keep up with their students' grades.

1. Grading Best Practices

• Grade within the activity —when entering grades for Moodle activities such as Quizzes or Assignments, always try to enter the grades within the activity. Each activity has its own mechanism for grading. Non-Moodle grades (conventional paper / pencil exams, etc.) can also be kept in the Moodle gradebook. To do this a Manual Grade Item will need to be created from within Gradebook Setup . Then you can manually enter grades for those items by navigating to the Gradebook and turning on editing.

NOTE:  Moodle will allow you to manually enter grades for Moodle activities in the same way that you do for manual grade items if necessary. Use this option sparingly. When you do so, you are overriding the grade calculated by Moodle. Once saved, overridden grades will be displayed with a beige colored background to remind you that the grade has been overridden.

• Category weights —when using Custom Weights categories, make the sum of all category weights equal 100. By doing so, it will always be clear what percentage of the course total is derived from each category (the weight will denote the percentage). To edit category weights, refer to step 6 of Moodle Gradebook: Creating Categories .  
• Extra Credit —use extra credit sparingly. If a given category contains an extra credit item, adding the extra credit is the last calculation performed for that category after all other calculations. For this reason, small extra credit maximum grades might have a more significant impact on grades than intended.

NOTE:   Be aware that Moodle does not cap grades at 100%. If a student has a high score and also accrues enough extra credit to exceed 100% for a given grade item, the extra points will carry over, in all aggregations, all the way to the course total.

2. Blank vs Zero Grades

By default, Moodle will exclude empty grades from grade calculations rather then treating them as zeros so that grade items that are not yet complete do not lower students' averages. However, Moodle cannot distinguish between a grade item (such as a quiz) that the student has missed and one that has simply not yet been completed. For that reason, instructors must enter zeros for students that miss a quiz or assignment or the student will not be penalized for the missing grade.  

3. Posting Grades

During Midterms and Finals, the Post Grades block will automatically appear on the Course Tools page . This feature transfers the letter grades from your Moodle gradebook to your myLSU page. You can only transfer grades once per class from Moodle to myLSU. If you need to make subsequent changes, you will have to do so from within myLSU. Also, the transfer from Moodle to myLSU is for your convenience. You still need to submit your grades from within myLSU. For more information, please see myLSU Post Grades .

Build the Gradebook

How to add a Gradebook Category

How to add a Manual Grade Item

How to add an Extra Credit Item

How to change aggregation methods

How to exclude / include empty grades

How to enter / override grades in Gradebook

How to change grade display type

How to move items in Gradebook setup

Support & Training

The Faculty Technology Center (FTC) provides Moodle support by email, by phone, or live through Zoom. For contact information, please see the article Faculty Technology Center: LSU Overview . To connect through Zoom and for further information on support services and training, see the LSU Online & Continuing Education Faculty Resources & Support page .

The FTC also provides just-in-time faculty training opportunities and recorded training sessions. Attending at least one training session for Moodle upgrades is highly recommended. For a comprehensive list of available workshops and recordings, please see the LSU Online & Continuing Education Technology Training page .

Adding Extra Credit

Extra credit can be added to the Moodle gradebook as a gradebook item that adds points to the student's number of accumulated points, but not to the point total for the course. This ability is dependent on some settings in your gradebook. For additional help with this, please contact support. 

Instructions

• Log into Moodle and enter your course site. 
• Click  Grades in the left side menu.
• From the dropdown menu, choose  Gradebook setup . 
• Scroll to the bottom of the gradebook page and click  Add grade item .
• On the next page, underneath Grade item , give the item a name and a total number of points in the maximum grade box. 
• If you don't have the option to change the weight of the item, your gradebook will not work with this method of extra credit.
• Click  Save changes .

• Follow the instructions for grading other grade items to enter the extra credit points.

Documentation

Note: You are currently viewing documentation for Moodle 2.8. Up-to-date documentation for the latest stable version of Moodle may be available here: Grade aggregation .

Grade aggregation

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• Advanced grading methods

The aggregation dropdown menu lets you choose the aggregation strategy that will be used to calculate each participant's overall grade for a grade category . The different options are explained below.

The grades are first converted to percentage values (interval from 0 to 1), then aggregated using one of the strategies below and finally converted to the associated category item's range (between Minimum grade and Maximum grade).

Important: An empty grade is simply a missing gradebook entry, and could mean different things. For example, it could be a participant who hasn't yet submitted an assignment, an assignment submission not yet graded by the teacher, or a grade that has been manually deleted by the gradebook administrator. Caution in interpreting these "empty grades" is thus advised.

• 1 Mean of grades
• 2 Weighted mean
• 3 Simple weighted mean
• 4 Mean of grades (with extra credits)
• 5 Median of grades
• 6 Smallest grade
• 7 Highest grade
• 8 Mode of grades
• 10 Available aggregation types

Mean of grades

The sum of all grades divided by the total number of grades.

Weighted mean

Each grade item can be given a weight, which is then used in the arithmetic mean aggregation to influence the importance of each item in the overall mean. In simple terms, the category "total" will be equal to the sum of the scores in each grade item, these scores being multiplied by the grade items' weights, and that sum being finally divided by the sum of the weights, as shown in this example.

Simple weighted mean

The difference from Weighted mean is that weight is calculated as Maximum grade - Minimum grade for each item. 100 point assignment has weight 100, 10 point assignment has weight 10.

When the "Simple weighted mean" aggregation strategy is used, a grade item can act as Extra credit for the category. This means that the grade item's maximum grade will not be added to the category total's maximum grade, but the item's grade will. For example, if A3 is marked as extra credit in the above calculation:

Mean of grades (with extra credits)

Arithmetic mean with a twist. An old, now unsupported aggregation strategy provided here only for backward compatibility with old activities.

A value greater than 0 treats a grade item's grades as extra credit during aggregation. The number is a factor by which the grade value will be multiplied before it is added to the sum of all grades, but the item itself will not be counted in the division. For example:

• Item 1 is graded 0-100 and its "Extra credit" value is set to 2
• Item 2 is graded 0-100 and its "Extra credit" value is left at 0.0000
• Item 3 is graded 0-100 and its "Extra credit" value is left at 0.0000
• All 3 items belong to Category 1, which has "Mean of grades (with extra credits)" as its aggregation strategy
• A student gets graded 20 on Item 1, 40 on Item 2 and 70 on Item 3
• The student's total for Category 1 will be 95/100 since 20*2 + (40 + 70)/2 = 95

Median of grades

The middle grade (or the mean of the two middle grades) when grades are arranged in order of size. The advantage over the mean is that it is not affected by outliers (grades which are uncommonly far from the mean).

Smallest grade

The result is the smallest grade after normalisation. It is usually used in combination with Aggregate only non-empty grades.

Highest grade

The result is the highest grade after normalisation.

Mode of grades

The mode is the grade that occurs the most frequently. It is more often used for non-numerical grades. The advantage over the mean is that it is not affected by outliers (grades which are uncommonly far from the mean). However it loses its meaning once there is more than one most frequently occurring grade (only one is kept), or when all the grades are different from each other.

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This is the sum of all grade values, scaled by weight. Natural weighting documentation page.

Scale grades are ignored. This is the only type that does not convert the grades to percentages internally. The Maximum grade of associated category item is calculated automatically as a sum of maximums from all aggregated items.

When the "Natural" aggregation strategy is used, a grade item can act as Extra credit for the category. This means that the grade item's maximum grade will not be added to the category total's maximum grade, but the item's grade will. Following is an example:

• Item 1 is graded 0-100
• Item 2 is graded 0-75
• Item 1 has the "Extra credit" checkbox ticked, Item 2 doesn't.
• Both items belong to Category 1, which has "Natural" as its aggregation strategy
• Category 1's total will be graded 0-75
• A student gets graded 20 on Item 1 and 70 on Item 2
• The student's total for Category 1 will be 75/75 (20+70 = 90 but Item 1 only acts as extra credit, so it brings the total to its maximum)

Natural aggregation functions as a sum of grades when the weight boxes are left alone. In this situation, the numbers in the weight boxes are informational and represent the effective weights in the sum. Natural aggregation can also function as a mean of grades, when the weight boxes are checked and then adjusted so that the weights are equal across a set of items in a category, or across a set of categories. Items can still be marked as "Extra credit" while using the weights to calculate a mean, and contribute to the total for the category.

Available aggregation types

The default is 'Natural' but the administrator can specify other types from Site administration >administration > Grades > Grade category settings .

Note that reducing the number of aggregation types simply results in disabled aggregation types not appearing in the aggregation type dropdown menu. All existing grade category calculations remain the same, regardless of whether the aggregation type is later disabled by an administrator.

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