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Gradebook configuration and course completion with groupings

 
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Gradebook configuration and course completion with groupings
by ? ? - Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 10:42 AM
 

Dear all,

I'm currently running Totara 9.9 and have a unique situation which I need to set up in my grade book and the completion status for a particular course.

I have a course which is comprised of 5 SCORMs and 1 Quiz.  The average of the SCORMs comprise 40% of the total course score and the remaining 60% is designated to the exam.

Those 5 SCORMs are actually comprised of SCORMs 1, 2 and 4, and SCORM 3 has two versions (version A and version B), with slightly different content between each.  I've managed to condition that Grouping A will only see version A, and Grouping B will only see version B.  The remaining 3 SCORMS (SCORM 1, SCORM 2 and SCORM 4) are seen by all.

Course completion in all my other courses is defined by completing all SCORMs and the exam, and achieving a minimum course score of 85% (which is obtained using the weighted averages mentioned above).

In this case, how can I configure course completion and the grade book to properly average the scores, and also register completion of only the SCORMs which are available to each grouping? I want to make sure that people will not complete a course by receiving for example 100 on a specific SCORM, and this would then give them a 100% score for the E-learning portion (40%) and then just take the exam and they're good to go.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.


Craig Eves
Re: Gradebook configuration and course completion with groupings
by Craig Eves (Totara Support) - Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 7:14 PM
 

Hi Hellmuth

It is possible to create formulas to calculate grades for the various grade items as described here

The formula follow the following rules and might look something like  below - 

  • the rounded bracket need to go around functions
  • square double brackets around the variables 
  • Use  comma as separators
  • the same number of left and right brackets needs to be used 
The formula will be similar to below - not sure if I have this right but similar concept to spreadsheet formulas

=sum([[SCORM]],[[ SCORM 2]],max([[SCORM3a]], [[SCORM 3b]]).[[SCORM 4]])/4])

Regards