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This applies to Moodle 3.8 from September 2020

How to: Set up weighted grades in grade book   

This is not set up in the individual assignments but within Grades, the Moodle grade book.

Accessing the grade book

  1. In your module, click on the 'Navigation menu' / 'Hamburger menu' button (top right)  Hamburger menu icon
  2. Click on Grades

Grades in hamburger menu

3. In the central drop=down menu at the top, click on 'Gradebook setup' to open the settings-editing page for the Moodle grade book for this module

Gradebook setup in dropdown

Gradebook setup page

If your grade items aren't already in a category you will need to add them in to one before you can apply the weighting.

Add a category or edit the category already existing

Add a new category

Add the relevant items to a category within the Gradebook.

  1. Click 'Add category' Add category buttonon the 'Gradebook setup' page
  2. Give the category a name

Give grade category a name

3. Click Show more...

4. Ensure "Aggregation" is set to 'Weighted mean of grades'

Weighted means of grades option in Aggregation menu

5. Click 'Save changes'


Add existing category

If you already have a category set up:

  1. On the Gradebook set up page, click on the Edit button against that category in the "Actions" column  
  2. Select 'Edit Settings'

Edit settings on an existing category

3. You may need to click "Show more..." under category name

4. Under Grade category, in the "Aggregation" field, click on the drop-down menu box and select 'Weighted mean of grades'

Weighted mean of grades option in Aggregation menu

5. Save your changes

Move the assignments to be weighted into that category:

  1. Click the move arrow Move arrow for the grade item to be moved
  2. Click the space inside the category

Move to Weighted marks

3. The grade item will move

4. A new column called "Weights" will appear. 

This is where you will determine the importance i.e. the weighting of each assignment compared to others within the module

Setting the weightings of assignments

  1. Next to each assignment, in the "Weight" column, enter any number to change its importance in the overall calculation of the module grade.  For example: for an assignment you wish to contribute 30% to the total module calculation enter 0.3 in the weight field alongside that item.
  2. Click on the 'Save changes' button at the bottom of the page.

Note:  0 means the grade for this assignment will not be considered in the overall calculation for the module.  1 means 100% of the grade for this assignment will be considered in the overall calculation for the module; 1.0 is the default, meaning that every assignment has equal importance and will therefore contribute equally to the overall module grade e.g. 10 assignments will contribute equally 10% towards the final grade.

Setting the weighting



If you have formative assessments that you don't want to appear in the gradebook as part of the total, create a new category for Formative Assessments and set the weighting of that category to 0. Then move any formative assessments into that category.  See  Grades 5 - How to Add Categories & Organise the Gradebook

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