The eClass Gradebook is a centralized tool that allows instructors to track and manage student grades across all course activities. It automatically collects scores from graded items such as assignments, quizzes, forums, and manual grade entries, organizing them in a table format for both instructors and students.
Instructors can customize the Gradebook to suit their grading strategy, including setting weightings, using categories, applying letter grades, and hiding or revealing grades as needed. Students can view their own grades and feedback, helping them monitor their progress throughout the course.
The Gradebook provides transparency, flexibility, and easy access to grading data, making it an essential tool for course management and student success in eClass.
1. Adding items into the gradebook
A new Gradebook column is automatically created for each gradable activity added to the course, such as a quiz, assignment, forums, etc. It is strongly recommended that the activities be placed into the eClass course as soon as possible, even if they are not set up (no quiz questions, assignments with just titles, etc): This way, weighing and grading may be set up ahead of time, and activities categorized if required. It is possible to hide assignments from students so they do not appear in their gradebook or eClass views.
To remove the gradebook entries, the associated activities must be deleted. You can hide the activities and assign them a weight/mark of 0 if you want to keep the activities on your eClass site.
2. Adding offline activities
Some assessment activities may take place offline, disconnected from eClass. Such activities may include: oral presentations, exams, participation, etc. It is possible to add these items to the Gradebook and enter the grades manually so that they are available to students and calculated as part of the course total in eClass. This is done by clicking on Add category in the Gradebook setup
For step-by-step instructions on adding these offline activities to the Gradebook, refer to the Adding Items to the Gradebook documentation page.
3. Organizing the gradebook into categories
A helpful strategy in managing the appearance and calculation of grades is to create grade categories, which can be used to group assessment items in the Gradebook. For example, a category might be created to group all course assignments or all quizzes. This may be particularly useful in setting weight factors of groups of assessments that have a different weighting scheme (i.e. drop the lowest mark in the Quizzes category).
For step-by-step instructions on adding and managing categories, refer to the Creating Categories documentation page.
4. Set the Grade Aggregation (Calculation) Method and Assign Weights
The default course total calculation in eClass is Simple weighted mean of grades. This grade aggregation method calculates the final category grade based on the weight of each activity’s maximum grade. This method is useful when you want the grade weight to reflect the size or importance of an activity without manually assigning specific weights. It’s also helpful when using different grading scales across activities, as it naturally balances them based on their maximum possible scores. However, it does not allow instructors to assign a weight for specific assessment activities, instead relying on each activity's Marks values to calculate the final grade, which must be done though each activity.
If you'd like to assign specific weights to grades you must choose Weighted mean of grades in order for the grades to be calculated based on a specific weighted grading scheme. 
For step-by-step instructions on changing the aggregation method and assigning weights to items in the gradebook, refer to the Assigning Weights to Grade Items documentation page.
A list of popular aggregation methods can be found on the Moodle Docs site.