2.5 Release

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

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

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.