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Key: MDL-18408
Type: Improvement Improvement
Status: Open Open
Priority: Major Major
Assignee: Petr Skoda
Reporter: Steve van Ommen
Votes: 0
Watchers: 1
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Course average for outcomes (on individual basis)

Created: 28/Feb/09 10:36 AM   Updated: 17/Apr/09 08:36 AM
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Component/s: Gradebook
Affects Version/s: 1.9
Fix Version/s: None

Environment:
Windows XP
Moodle 1.9
Windows XP
PHP (current Oct 08)
MySQL database
Apache server

Database: MySQL
Participants: Nicolas Connault, Petr Skoda and Steve van Ommen
Security Level: None
Affected Branches: MOODLE_19_STABLE


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There doesn't seem to be a way to take an average of outcomes on an individual student basis. Please refer to extract from a previous posting (to which there were no replies - indicating perhaps that there is no current answer)



I need to be able to take an average of each outcome for each student. So I might have 6 occurrences of Outcome 1 (eg; achieves accuracy in spelling and expression) and I need to reduce this to a single average score for the course (which I have expressed in terms of an A-E rating).

Elena showed me where to find outcome reports but this, it seems, only does an average for the class.

I have a rudimentary understanding of formulas as used in Excel, and I see there is a calculation function within the gradebook. Am I barking up the right tree here? I want to avoid a formula where I have to manually pick columns to be averaged - I'd rather one that identifies all "outcome 1" columns and automatically calculates the average.


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Nicolas Connault added a comment - 03/Apr/09 10:09 PM
I would simply create a grade category and put all the outcome items in it (you'll probably want to rename them to distinguish which activity they belong to). You can then get a nice mean of these outcomes.

Steve van Ommen added a comment - 04/Apr/09 08:57 PM
Aah thanks for that! Actually in the process of investigating grade categories I discovered calculations, so I am using this to save having to move and rename the outcome items to the category. Now my only question is how do I get the calculated averages to show in the form of letters instead of numbers (since my outcomes are expressed as A, B, C , D).

Steve van Ommen added a comment - 17/Apr/09 08:36 AM
Well, I now know how to express the averages in terms of letters but the people who were helping me with it have raised a bigger problem with scales in some current versions. See this conversation: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/user.php?id=623877&course=1
I can't see the problem myself - I have 1.9.4