Leave the administration burden behind and focus on great teaching. We’ll cover how you can get grading done faster, automate tasks and notifications, and generate awesome reporting, among others.

1. Efficiency in teaching
using these 5
Moodlerooms tools and
tips
Grant Beevers
Senior Manager,
Solutions Engineering APAC

2. 2
• Grading tips to help you know what needs
grading
• Tips for using the Moodlerooms Grader
• Some commonly used PLD rules
• Comparison reports tips
• Intelliboard – awesome new analytics add-on

3. 3
1. How do I know what needs grading?
There are many ways for you to tell what needs grading in your courses.
* From the activity
* From Moodlerooms Grader
* From the Needs Grading report
* From your Snap personal menu
* From a PLD notification
https://help.blackboard.com/Moodlerooms/Teacher/Grading/Gradebook/Grading_in_Gradebook

4. 4
2. Moodlerooms Grader is an alternate grading
option that enables you to view, grade, and
navigate through student submissions in a
simplified, adjustable, two-pane view.
Currently, only assignments and forums are
supported in the Grader.
https://help.blackboard.com/Moodlerooms/Teacher/Grading/Moodlerooms_Grader

5. 5
• Use advanced grading methods, such as rubrics.
• Annotate PDFs within the Grader.
• Use marking workflows and delegate grading.
• Teachers and students can discuss a particular
grade or submission in the assignment's
comments.
• Students can view only their own submissions and
grades in the Grader.

6. 6

7. 7
Marking workflows
With marking workflows, marks go through these stages before being
released to students.
Not marked: Marking hasn't started.
In marking: Marking is in progress.
Marking completed: Marking is finished but the marker might need to
go back for corrections.
In review: Marking is being reviewed the teacher in charge
for quality checking.
Ready for release: The teacher in charge is satisfied with the marking
but is waiting to give students access to the mark.
Released: The student can access the grades and feedback.

8. 8
3. PLD (Personal Learning Designer) Rule
Structure

9. 9
Some common PLD rules to save some time:
• Failed Quiz Rule
• Course Not Accessed Rule
• Remediation or Revision Rule
• Course Grade Update Rule
• Forum Post Rule
• Quiz or Assignment Not Submitted Rule
https://help.blackboard.com/Moodlerooms/Teacher/Personalized_Learning_Designer/PLD_Sample_Rules

10. 10
• Activities comparison: Compares the summary data of
different activities within a course.
• Participants comparison: Compares the summary data of
different users or cohorts within a course.
• Course summaries: Displays summary data for different
courses across the site.
• Participant summaries: Displays summary data of users in
courses that share a facilitator.
https://www.moodlerooms.com/2012/08/14/best-practices-six-tips-taking-advantage-joules-comparison-reports/
4. Comparison Reports

11. 11

12. 12

13. 13

14. 14

15. 15
5. Intelliboard
• 60+ reports and analytics.
• Responsive design interface.
• Learner, Instructor and Competency Dashboards.
• Configurable permissions and settings.
• Reporting for administrator, instructor/teacher level,
and employer, where applicable.
https://apacrfp-sandbox.mrooms.net/