Adding a Grade Item
Setting up your grade book in Moodle starts with adding items -- individual grades like essays and tests. Often, grade items are automatically created when you set up an graded Moodle activity, such as an Assignment , Forum, or Quiz. Sometimes, though, you just want to manually create an item for directly inputing grades into the grade book only.
Here's how you do it!
In your class, click on Grades tab at the top.
You are now in the "Grader report." For adding a grade item, click on "Grader report" to open dropdown menu. Select "Gradebook setup" from the dropdown.
At the top of the gradebook setup page, click on "Add grade item."
Give your grade an Item name - like "final exam" or "essay #1."
Click the Show more... link that is just under Item name.
Enter the maximum possible points for your assignment in the Maximum grade box. Click Save changes (at the bottom of the page).
Return to the "Grader report" to see your new Grade item displayed and to record grades for your students