Removing Attendance from the Moodle Gradebook

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If you have set an Attendance item in your course to be worth points, it will automatically add a grade item to the Moodle gradebook. Before any attendance has been taken, simply set the Grade type to **None** on the attendance settings page to remove it from the gradebook.

Screenshot of the **Grade** section within the **Whole forum grading** settings of a Moodle activity, showing the **Type** dropdown menu open, with **None** currently selected, and options to change it to **Scale** or **Point**.

2

If the attendance was set to count in the gradebook in error and attendance has already been taken for at least one session, some extra steps must be performed to remove the item from the gradebook. First, go to the gradebook and select the Single View tab.

Screenshot of the Gradebook dropdown menu in Moodle, showing the **Single view** option selected, indicated by a blue background and a red arrow pointing to it.

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On this page, select the Attendance item in the "Select grade item" drop down menu. Select the All link in the Override column to check the override box for each students’ attendance grade.

Screenshot of the **Editing grades for Attendance** page in Moodle, showing a table with four student names (Lindsey Baker, Lorne Lee, Joshua Moore, Marci Moore) with columns for Grade, Range (0.00 - 100.00), Feedback, Override (checked for all), and Exclude.

4

Click the "Actions" button, and select "Bulk insert grades".

Screenshot of the Actions dropdown menu within the Moodle Single view grade page, showing the options **Override all**, **Override none**, **Exclude all**, **Exclude none**, and **Bulk insert grades** selected.

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Select "All grades", and ensure that the "Insert new grade" field is blank, and click "Save". This will change all of the attendance grades to no grade.

Screenshot of the **Bulk insert grades** confirmation dialog, showing a checkbox checked for "I understand that my unsaved changes will be lost," the option **All grades** selected for replacement, an empty text box for the new grade, and the **Save** button.

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After this step, you can go back into the Attendance settings, go to Grades, and change the point type to "none". This will remove Attendance from the gradebook.

Screenshot of a "Grade" settings panel, showing a dropdown menu open under "Type." The options in the dropdown are "None" (selected and highlighted by a red arrow), "Scale," and "Point."

If you need any assistance, please feel free to contact the Center for Learning and Teaching by emailing [clt@occc.edu](mailto:clt@occc.edu) or by calling 405-682-7838!