Moodle gradebook and what the students see revisited

With the Grade item settings left at default in the instructor's view, a student in the course sees the following in their Moodle app. 


In this case the student was asked how they were doing in the course and they expressed concern. The course total was 23 but what that 23 meant was unclear to the student.


The dashboard in Canvas displayed the students overall grade. The Moodle app dashboard for this student shows the above information. This appears to perhaps be an activity completion status bar.


The above is what the instructor sees, which matches what the student is seeing.


On the student's phone the student was shown to tap the > icon to open the Course total section. The student had not realized that the screen was using a form of accordion folding and that the > was an interactive element.  The grade is now 23 out of 25 possible points for an average of 92%. The 17.69 value is the course average for all 26 students. 


This concurs with what the instructor sees on their mobile device (above). 


The change to 28 points was due to the marking of an assignment worth 5 points while working through the above screens with the student. 

On a desktop the instructor only sees the raw (real in Moodle parlance) points. No percentage, no letter grade - because the Grade item settings was left at the Default (Real) setting. This can be changed. Whether the desktop Grade item setttings impact what students see on the Moodle mobile app is not known to this author, but given the desktop being set to Default (Real) and the Moodle app displaying the overall percentage and letter grade, one might deduce that the instructor's desktop setting does not impact what the app displays. Or perhaps only impacts what is displayed in the accordion fold header. 

Of remaining concern is that the student was unaware of the accordion fold feature and was unaware of how they were doing in the course. 

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