Example Scales and explanations has been adapted from Moodle.org.
General Introductions (The Affirmative Scale) Welcome! Glad to have you here! Great post!
- (Valued as 0/2pts, 1/2pt, and 2/2pts respectively in any normalised aggregation method)
- (Valued as 1, 2, and 3 respectively in the sum aggregation method)
Pass Fail - Fail, Pass
- (Valued as 0/1pt, 1/1pt respectively in any normalised aggregation method)
- (Valued as 1 and 2 respectively in the sum aggregation method)
"Refer" pass, merit, distinction
- (Valued as 0/2pts, 1/2pt, and 2/2pts respectively in any normalised aggregation method)
- (Valued as 1, 2, and 3 respectively in the sum aggregation method)
Stars
- (Valued as 0/4pts, 1/4pt, 2/4pts, 3/4pts, and 4/4pts respectively in any normalised aggregation method)
- (Valued as 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 respectively in the sum aggregation method)
Values calculated as percentage scores
Moodle uses the last entry to determine the number of points in the scale for computing percentages. For example, if your scale is 0,5,6,7,8,9,10 then Moodle will use a 0-6 or 1-7 point scale depending on your chosen aggregation method.
- When using a normalised aggregation method, 0 will become 0/6, 5 will become 1/6, 6 will become 2/6, 7 will become 3/6, 8 will become 4/6, 9 will become 5/6, and 10 will become 6/6 for grade computation, respectively.
- When using the sum aggregation method, 0 will become 1, 5 will become 2, 6 will become 3, 7 will become 4, 8 will become 5, 9 will become 6, and 10 will become 7.
Generic Social Forum
(This scale only worked prior to the averaging function)
Please clarify., I don’t understand., Hmmm. Tell me more., Interesting, Very cool., Awesome!
- (Valued as 0/6pts, 1/6pt, 2/6pts, 3/6pts, 4/6pts, 5/6pts, and 6/6pts respectively in any normalised aggregation method)
- (Valued as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 respectively in the sum aggregation method)
If you would like two options in your scale (incomplete and complete) type "incomplete, complete" in the scale box.
- (Valued as 0/1pts and 1/1pt respectively in any normalised aggregation method like weighted mean, mean, simple weighted mean, etc.)
- (Valued as 1 and 2 respectively in the sum aggregation method)
Non value Scales
If your scale is not a number, Moodle's behaviour in combining or averaging the scores into a percentage value is unpredictable.
When an average or aggregate is important, then it is a good idea to stick with the standard 100% scale to compute an overall grade.
