Key Feature Enhancements and Bug Fixes for Smartsite Summer 2007 2.4.x upgrade
More seamless integration between Gradebook and other tools
Continued and/or improved integration with:
- Tests & Quizzes
- Assignments
- Forums
New Assignments Features
New features in Assignments tool include:
- Allow grading of assignment where student has not posted a submission
- Allow non-electronic submission type (no attachment or text input required)
- Allow faculty to choose to be notified of student submissions (per submission or batched)
- Allow faculty to download all submissions, grade, comment, attach or modify submissions and then Upload All
- Allow faculty to reorder assignments from the default.
New Gradebook Features
Projected scope of Sakai gradebook 2.5 release work by Indiana team.
Major changes include:
- Allow categories and/or weighted categories.
- Item weighting deferred past summer.
- Allow new grade entry types: percentages and letter grades.
- Ability to import grades using a downloaded spreadsheet template. Moved import individual gradebook item to Add Gradebook Item page.
- Allow instructors to view an individual student's grade report.
- Allow instructor to "see what a student sees"
- Allow export course grades in addition to export gradebook
- New calculate course grade workflow allowing users to verify to grades before calculating and displaying
- Users decision to "include gradebook item in calculation of cumulative scores and course grade" moved to the gradebook item summary/grade page.
- Blank grades treated as null (rather than current treatment as 0).
- Various layout enhancements.
- Split gradebook setup and course grade settings into 2 pages.
- Banner integration for grade submission.