How to set up your Grades tool

Posted 11 September 2015 at 10:15am

MyLO’s Grades tool is flexible and offers many options for recording, tracking and calculating student grades.

This page is designed to link you to useful resources related to the Grades tool.

If you are new to Grades…

If you want to set up your Grades tool to maximise efficiency of grades management and marking…

If you need to identify solutions to meet your grading needs, and set up your Grades tool…

The Grading with different MyLO tools table provides you with advice about the relationship between tools like Dropbox Folders, Discussions and Quizzes.
Do you cater to different cohorts of students using the same MyLO site? This information will be useful when you’re making decisions about how to set up your Grades tool.
Find out how to set up the Grades tool to represent the assessment designs used in your units. Begin by reviewing the sample grading scenarios. Each scenario links to a Grades solution which details the grading system required, what needs to be created (like Categories and Grade Items) and the settings required for each tool.
A range of step-by-step guides detail how to set up Categories and Grade Items, and link Grade Items to items like Dropboxes, Quizzes and Discussions.

If you are approaching the end of your unit…

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