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 |
|
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. |