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Logging Grades for External Activities

Grades for activities completed outside of SaplingLearning.com can also be logged in your SaplingLearning.com gradebook. This can be accomplished either by adding the activity directly to the gradebook, or by importing scores for the activity through a comma-separated list (CSV).

Direct Input of External Grades

This animation describes how to directly input external grades (scroll down for written steps):

  1. Click Grades on the left side of your course webpage to open the gradebook.
  2. Click Categories and items at the top of the page.
  3. Click Add grade item at the bottom of the screen to which you are taken.
  4. Enter the Item name (the name of the external assignment), the Maximum grade, and the Minimum grade. Ignore any other settings.
  5. Click Save changes.
  6. Click the View tab to return to your gradebook.
  7. Click Turn editing on at the top-right of your gradebook.
  8. Enter scores for the external assignment, and click Update.
  9. Click Turn editing off at the top-right of your gradebook.
  10. At any time, you can enter additional scores for this activity by clicking Turn editing on.

Importing Grades

Import Options

To import grades, begin with an exported copy of your gradebook. If you are importing external grades, you will only need the "Email address" column from this export, but the "First name" and "Last name" columns will likely be helpful to help you match the grades to your external logs. Simply enter the name(s) of any new activities at the top of a column, and the score for each student in the same row as their email address. Save the file as a comma-separated list (csv).

Once your file is prepared, choose Import from... CSV file from the drop-down menu at the top-left of the gradebook. Click Choose File on the page that loads, and select your csv file. Leave everything else as-is. Click Upload Grades.

On the preview page, verify that your data appears. In the Identify user by block, choose Email address in the first drop-down, and useremail in the second. For each field in the Grade item mappings block, change the drop-down from ignore to either new gradeitem (if the item does not yet appear in your SaplingLearning.com gradebook), or to the name of an existing item in the gradebook if you are simply updating grades.

For more information, see the Moodle help doc on grade imports.