Before creating sessions, decide whether to assess knowledge, also reward speed, or use KUET only for practice. Grading follows three steps: answers earn points, the result is scaled to the session maximum, and the sessions that count are combined into the activity grade.
To send a grade to the gradebook, enable grading for both the activity and its sessions, and finish the sessions. If you select “No grading” for the activity, you can still use points and reports without generating an activity grade.
Inactive and race: add up the points earned on questions. Speed does not increase or reduce those points. Choose these modes when you want grades to reflect accuracy.
Podium: combines accuracy with the time remaining when an answer is submitted. The earlier the submission, the greater the share of its points retained. An answer submitted with half the available time remaining retains approximately half its points.
For example, an answer worth 2 points contributes 2 in inactive or race mode. In podium mode, with 50% of the time remaining, it contributes the equivalent of 1 point before scaling to the session maximum. Answering every question correctly in podium mode does not guarantee the maximum grade: speed also matters.
Manual or scheduled progression does not change these scoring rules. Choose progression according to whether you want to lead the session or let each student work independently.
Each question’s value determines its weight in the session: a 2-point question weighs twice as much as a 1-point question. Questions set to “Ignore correct answers and grading” contribute neither points nor possible maximum points. Use this option for polls or practice questions that should not affect the grade.
If you manually correct an answer, your score replaces the automatic marking. In podium mode, the time factor still applies afterwards: correcting an answer does not remove the reduction for taking longer to respond.
In team sessions, a manual correction applies to every team member and their activity grades are recalculated.
Points earned are scaled proportionally to the maximum grade you configured for the session. The number of questions does not, by itself, determine that maximum.
Example: in an inactive or race session with 20 possible points and a maximum grade of 10, earning 15 points gives a grade of 7.5 out of 10. If another session has 40 possible points, earning 30 also gives 7.5 out of 10 when its maximum is 10.
In podium mode, scaling preserves the effect of speed. A session with no graded questions produces a grade of 0. Check which questions count before using it for assessment.
As well as being graded, a session must meet the participation condition to count towards a student’s grade.
Answering one question does not mean completing the session: if the session counts, its maximum still includes all its graded questions.
Choose the method in the activity settings to suit your teaching goal. It applies to the sessions that count for each student.
If only one session counts, its grade is used directly with any of the graded methods. Use a consistent maximum across sessions to make comparisons easier.
Example with grades out of 10: with 6 in the first session and 8 in the second, the highest grade is 8, the average is 7, the first is 6 and the last is 8. Adding a mandatory session with no answers and a grade of 0 lowers the average to 4.67. If that third session is optional and not attempted, the average remains 7.
A session report shows the game score before it is converted to the session’s maximum grade. The activity grade combines session grades using the chosen method. These values therefore need not match.
In the example above, the report may show 15 points while the session grade is 7.5 out of 10. In podium mode, the report score also uses a scale linked to the time percentage, so the difference may be larger.
When explaining results, distinguish between game points, session grade and activity grade. Also check the scale displayed in the Moodle gradebook, which depends on the platform settings.