Advanced grading methods
Advanced grading methods are now available to enable individual elements of an assignment to be awarded a grade, and the final grade is calculated as a total of each of these grades. For example, the teacher grades element one and element two and the grades given will contribute to the final activity grade. The teacher will not choose one final grade for the assessment. This is achieved through the use of rubrics.
Rubrics
Rubrics are an advanced grading method. Until Moodle 2.2, advanced grading options have only been available in the Workshop activity, but the rubric option is now available for use with assignments as well.
Note
Currently, Rubrics can only be used with assignment activities and as part of the Workshop activity. However, future releases of Moodle are likely to enable advanced grading methods to be used with other activities such as forums and glossaries.
Rubrics allow a set of criteria to be set up for the assessment along with descriptors to outline...