danaleeling

If a category in Moodle contains items with different total possible points, the ability to drop the lowest grade is disabled.  In the above image there are learning outcomes attached to the assignments. The learning outcomes are scored based on the number of ratings. There are four ratings being used: optimal, sufficient, suboptimal, and no evidence. Moodle automatically assigns points to ratings in a monotonic sequence. Four rating, four points maximum.  Because the assignment are 30 points and the outcomes are four, dropping the lowest is disabled. One might reason that not including the outcomes in the aggregation would resolve this issue. In the above the outcomes are no longer included in the grade aggregation. But dropping the lowest remains disabled. The code underneath the gradebook still sees the four point student learning outcomes.  One option is to use subcategories. Moving the assignments into one category and the learning outcomes into another restores the ...