Moodle

Course average for outcomes (on individual basis)

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.9
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Gradebook
  • Labels:
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  • Environment:
    Windows XP
    Moodle 1.9
    Windows XP
    PHP (current Oct 08)
    MySQL database
    Apache server
  • Database:
    MySQL
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE

Description

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 -

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.

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Nicolas Connault added a comment - 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.
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Steve van Ommen added a comment -

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).

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Steve van Ommen added a comment - 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).
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Steve van Ommen added a comment -

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

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Steve van Ommen added a comment - 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

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