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The Gradebook is linked to all assessment activities in FLO. Using the Gradebook in a topic ideally consists of 5 stages, in a looped process.

Setting up the Gradebook | Setting up the topic total | Checking your calculations | Grading students work | Finalising grades for the semester || Support

The Gradebook collects assessment items that have been graded from the various parts of FLO and allows you to view them, sort them into categories and calculate a final grade (topic total). When you add a graded activity to a topic, the Gradebook automatically creates space for the grades it will produce and automatically adds the grades when they are generated.

Each topic requires someone to calculate the final grade, which for many topics will be a simple process.

The Gradebook has several options to control what students can and can't see in the gradebook. Teaching staff have access to various gradebook reports.

Good practice guides and tip sheets

Good practice guides and tip sheets have been developed to support quality in both curriculum design and teaching practice. Good practice guides provide a pedagogical overview and tip sheets provide you with practical strategies and ideas for implementation. Links to gradebook-related resources are provided below.

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Setting up the Gradebook

All grades recorded in FLO through an activity (eg assignments, quizzes) will appear automatically in the Gradebook.

You can control if/how students see grades in your topic.

You can also control how the Gradebook is laid out.

Sometimes grades need to be entered in FLO without being tied to an activity.

Add manual grade items

Setting up the topic total

In most cases, setting up the Gradebook will be a simple matter of setting weightings that match the Statement of Assessment Methods (SAM).

Calculate a topic total using weightings

With more complex gradebooks you might:

Calculate a topic total when students have a choice of assessments

If your Gradebook is more complex than this, contact your eLearning support team for support.

Checking your calculations

It is vitally important that the Gradebook is checked for accuracy.

Grading students' work

Grading students' work should be done from inside the related activity wherever possible.

Assignments and forums can be marked using Advanced grading features (rubrics, marking guides, and checklists [currently only works for the assignment activity]):

Set up a feedback template for offline or online marking

However, on some occasions it is easier to enter grades directly into FLO (e.g. for assessments that don't have an online component, like participation marks).

Manually import grades from an Excel file
This is better for importing multiple grades
Manually enter a grade into the Gradebook
This should only be done in exceptional circumstances

On occasion, you may need to view the grades of students who no longer have access.

Warning: Wherever possible it is better to enter grades through the activity instead of in the gradebook. Any grade entered in the Gradebook will always override a grade entered through the activity – regardless if you meant it to or not. Find out how to remove grade overrides.

Finalising grades for the semester

Important notice: Grades published in FLO are not official until they appear in the Student Information System. Find out more information about final results.

At the end of the semester the final marks will need to be imported into Student Management.