Development in 2006 for next version of the Gradebook is focused on adding three major areas of functionality: 1) upload and import of data; 2) selective control over the release of posted scores and grades by date, by time, by individual assignment, etc.; 3) organization of gradebook items into categories, while allowing for the assignment of different weights to those categories when calculating course grades. Preparing the groundwork for this phase of development and for functionality we hope to add afterwards has also meant looking for comprehensive solutions to shortcomings in the services Gradebooks uses. We need to address issues such as insitutionally configurable student idsIDs and others before going much further.
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