Key Feature Enhancements and Bug Fixes for Smartsite Summer 2007 2.4.x upgrade
Bug Fixes
- Resources: fixes forced email notification when editing files
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:
In our 2.4.x update:
- Allow categories and/or weighted categories.
- Allow faculty to choose to enter grades by points, percentages, or letter grades associated with percentages.
- Ability to import grades using a downloaded spreadsheet template. Moved import individual gradebook item to Add Gradebook Item page.
- Better labeling to distinguish gradebook items from assignments (form Assignment tools.)
- Allow instructors to view an individual student's grade report.
- 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).
Future enhancements/features (possibly later this summer or fall):
- Allow instructor to "see what a student sees".
- Various layout enhancements.
- Split gradebook setup and course grade settings into 2 pages.
- Banner integration for grade submission.
- Item weighting deferred past summer.