2.5 Release
Projected scope of Sakai gradebook 2.5 release work:
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 addtion 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 scroes 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
Tendered Resources
Institution | Resources | Type | Timeframe |
|---|---|---|---|
Indiana | 2 FTE | Developers | May 1 - August 31 |
Georgia Tech | contracted development (tentative), some QA | TBD | After mid-July |
UC Davis | 3 Testers | QA/QC | at least May 1 - May 15 as required and again in mid July in time for IU 7/28 release |
Scope Under Discussion
Reference | Description | Resource | Estimate | Dependencies | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
001 | UI Breadcrumbs | Indiana | 80h | N/A | Code Complete 5/2007 |
002 | Equal item weighting within a weighted category | Indiana | 120h | N/A | Items need to have the same weight regardless of point value to support dropping lowest/highest grades. This has been deferred for now to complete 4,7,8,9 |
003 | Drop Lowest/Highest Grade | Indiana | 80h | 002 | See 2 above. |
004 | Letter grading scale | Indiana | 160h | N/A |
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005 | Grade publication (Banner integration - Georgia Tech) | UCD | 45h |
| Simple approach: POST handshake and file dropoff. UCD/Georgia Tech should coordinate. |
006 | Extra credit (UC Davis) | TBD | TBD | API Improvements | Will be reviewed by UCD when current Indiana work is complete. Can be worked around by adding more points than the maximum as this is not limited. |
007 | Create GB item helper | Indiana | TBD | None | e.g. User wants to create a new GB item from Assignments or Message Center |
008 | Grading scale helpers | Indiana | TBD | None | Used to map scales to points (e.g. pass/fail, letter, etc) |
009 | Single store for all grades | Indiana | TBD | 008 | No tool should store grades itself; they should all be stored in the single grading service |
010 | UI Review | UCB | UID | ? | Will test against and review 2.5/Indiana summer release. |
Comments
Will definitely work with 2.4 - IU is planning on implementing a slightly scaled back version on June 2
Rutgers has integration with a home-grown SIS grade-submission piece which I'd love to mesh into whatever general support gets baked into Sakai proper. Still coming up to speed after my switch from the myRutgers team, so I'm not able to provide more details or an offer of work other than that – but I'm definitely interested in tracking this discussion.
The version number may be the answer in itself, but is this being developed directly against Sakai 2.5 or is it also planned to work on 2.4?
The functionality is something we've been eagerly anticipating, but we may not be able to justify a wholesale switch to Sakai 2.5 during the academic year. Having the ability to plug this in to 2.4 would be fantastic.