Removed and Newly Suggested Features

The following were included in the original MIT / UC Berkeley requirements for an online Gradebook but stripped from the Sakai 2.0 release.

  • Section Awareness
  • Grading History Logs
  • Grader Comments
  • Student Details Page
  • Assignment Not Counted
  • Assignment Categories
  • Percentage-Weighted Categories
  • Letter-Graded Assignments
  • Drop Lowest Grades
  • Freestyle Gradebook
  • Flagging Students
  • Filter by Enrollment Status
  • Filter by Grader
  • Grade on Curve
  • Extra Credit
  • Enterprise Final Grade Submission Plug-in
  • Statistics Graphs
  • Lock down grades

Some other features have been suggested since the 2.0 release:

  • Gradebook export/import services (columns, not student scores)
  • Move to Spring 1.2
  • Grade Import
  • Greater flexibility of grade export (mostly to work around the lack of a final grade submission plug-in)
  • Direct access to a user permissions-editing tool (apparently to work around the lack of an instructor-usable role management application)
  • Allow for more flexible Sakai integration if the framework is still lacking (e.g., to control which permissions are checked and what field the display UID is based on)
  • Loosen the service coupling

In our initial discussions with the Stanford Samigo team, we originally agreed to work towards the following integration features, stripped from the Sakai 2.0 release:

  • Two-way creation and editing of assignments
  • Two-way manual scoring of assignments
  • Direct links to the relevant assignment pages from Gradebook instructor, grader, and student views

Currently the only certain deliverables for the 2.1 Gradebook release are Section Awareness, History Logs, and moving to Spring 1.2.

Depending on the schedule and our available resources, the next highest priority is generally agreed to be Percentage-Weighted Categories, but that's also the greatest combined challenge for UI and business logic.