Differences between Sakai Gradebook Tools (GB1/GB2/GBNG)
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GAP analysis between Gradebook2 and Gradebook  (UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA)
Quick Check List (Thanks Former user (Deleted)). Please, feel free to add new rows if needed.
| Status in GBNG | GB1 [11.x] | GB2 [1.9.1] | GB NG | Related JIRA | Comments/Questions | Institutional Support/Email Address | |
DESIRED | Make icons in gradebook higher visibility (a11y) | - | - | ! | Error rendering macro 'jira' : Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. | Icons for originating tools, eye and calculator icons, as well as down arrows in header cells are too light to meet accessibility requirements. | |
DESIRED | Weighted items | N | Y | N | Suggestion: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aFsT7Dn02ClfeuITPWMsmuDrZPf5KqqcC60BHg-KXyY/edit | hauerwas@providence.edu raul.sanchez@ticarum.es, pablo.sanroman@unavarra.es | |
COMPLETE | Able to include an item in the final grade if such item is not visible to students | N | Y | Y (19) |
| While some concern in the community exists for having invisible grades contribute towards a student's score, student issues could be alleviated with a warning. Note that many people who use this function in GB2 are not displaying the running course grade to students during the semester. | |
COMPLETE | Option to choose if grades are re-scaled when Gradebook Item Point Value is changed | N | Y | Y (19) | open Edit Item Details > click into Points field. If you try to edit the score, check box appears asking if you want to "Scale existing scores." | raul.sanchez@ticarum.es | |
COMPLETE | Starting point of gradebook looks blank (no students) if there are no grade items | Y | Y (19) | First time instructors see GB it appears they have no students in the site | |||
DESIRED | Minimum score: It is the minimum score necessary to reach in the gradebook item to pass the course | N | N | N |
| raul.sanchez@ticarum.es pablo.sanroman@unavarra.es | |
DESIRED | Full support section awareness | N | N | N |
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COMPLETE | Excuse individual students from the grade items (manually created) | N | Y | Y (19) |
| Dayton University has made this feature available in master and is waiting on pull request review. NEEDS bug fix in SAK-40781 to be resolved. | berappl@ilstu.edu |
DESIRED | Letter grading | Y (off by default) | Y | N | Settings allow letter grades to be entered as item scores (but not expected to allow both numeric and letter grading) | ||
COMPLETE | Student section awareness for items created from external tools | Y | N | N | Needs clarification (1). NOTE (January 2016). Tested in GradebookNG in trunk-oracle.nightly.sakaiproject.org | vacercon@upvnet.upv.es | |
COMPLETE | Export the final course grades in PDF format | Y | N | Y (12) | pablo.sanroman@unavarra.es | ||
COMPLETE | Export the student's final points summation | Y | N | Y (12) | |||
COMPLETE | Export the student grades to PDF format | Y | N | Y (12) | |||
COMPLETE | GB Export needs course/section in title | Y | Y (12) | ||||
DESIRED | Average course grade, Student final point summation, Category class average, Grade item class average, Student category average | Y | N | N |
| Also, will have more detailed grade stats in the future. NOTE (January 2018). GradebookNG only is missing 'Category class average'. | |
COMPLETE | Ability to discard the highest grades or keep the highest grades in the Category | Y | N | Y | collab-support@virginia.edu (UVA) | ||
COMPLETE | Number of steps to add multiple similar grade items | 2 | 3 (19) | GB2 allows quick flow for adding multiple identical grade items by clicking Save and modifying title, saving again | lcira@nd.edu | ||
COMPLETE | Set Ungraded Items to Zero: set all gradebook items included in the final grade to 0 | Y | N | Y (12) | Added ability to set a given gradebook item to zero or another value. | ||
COMPLETE | Display institutional student IDs in gradebook | N | N | Y (12.2) | Fix version: 12 | ||
COMPLETE | Display institutional student IDs in gradebook export | N | N | Y (12.2) | jolie.tingen@duke.edu  | ||
COMPLETE | View all Students | Y | N | Y | GB2 could be considered either way, you can specify the number of students to view on a page: Fixed with infinite scrolling for GBNG in 12 | ||
COMPLETE | Search for Students (display students even if not displayed on the page) | Y | Y | Y | Fixed with infinite scrolling for GBNG in 12 | ||
COMPLETE | Export gradebook by Section | Y | Y | Y (12.4) | |||
COMPLETE | Visually ID dropped grades - student and instructor | Y | Y | Y (12.2) | Western U. is working on this fix for our local GBNG+ and will attempt to contribute it back when we're ready with it. - > ISU is interested in this but it appears it has been fixed in Master and is being merged back to 12 | ||
DESIRED | Ability to modify all grades for one student on individual-student page | Y | Y | N | Student Summary window interface for GB2, Classic - **not expected to allow grades generated in other tools to be changed | collab-support@virginia.edu (UVA) | |
DESIRED | Ability to release descriptive statistics to students | N | Y | N | Instructors use statistics release to allow students to see where they are relative to their peers. | ||
IN PROGRESS | Display the value each grade item has in the overall course grade - instructor view | N | Y | N | Very helpful for instructors when setting up their gradebooks initially - one screen shows all items, point values, weights and total points accounted for. | lcira@nd.edu | |
COMPLETE | Display all grade item score totals before scores entered (if released) - student view | Y | Y (19) | Allow students to see all grade item values before final scores are entered | |||
COMPLETE | Add statistics for overall course grade | N | Y | Y (12) | Visible in Settings > Grade Schema chart | pablo.sanroman@unavarra.es | |
IN PROCESS | Display list of items with total points for each category and overall gradebook | Y | N | Faculty use this to see if the items / categories add up to the correct number of points. Related to SAK-33856 if weighted categories enabled. | |||
DESIRED | Loading Dock | Y | N | N | Improved import/export process | ||
DESIRED | Import/Export the full Gradebook Structure (categories, weights) | N | Y | N | raul.sanchez@ticarum.es | ||
COMPLETE | Import more than one grade item | N | Y | Y | |||
COMPLETE | Import the "Gradebook Item Point Value" | N | Y | Y | Updated. GB1 doesn't have this capability. Please see below (2) | ||
NOTES | Import/Export .XLS files | Y | Y | N | GBNG only allows importing/exporting .CSV files. GB2 allows importing/exporting .XLSX files too. | ||
NOTES | Allow the category weights summation be different from 100% | N | Y* | Y* | Both GB2 and NG provide a notification; GBNG will actually appear to not let you save the Categories if they are not equal to 100 (but you can click out of the Settings page and ignore it) | ||
| Subcategories (end-of-quarter terms) | N | N | N | Allow subcategories in order to take the "end-of-quarter terms" into account. More info in the Jira. | raul.sanchez@ticarum.es | ||
IN PROCESS | Weight items of different values equally | N | Y | N |
| Items have different point values but will be weighted equally towards the category. Helpful when scores are coming from outside sources, like publisher sites, where instructor cannot control the grade value, but wants them all to contribute equal value towards category. | |
COMPLETE | Weight items by points | N | Y | Y | This is how GBNG achieves weights within a category. | ||
| 'Import from site' option: Import the full gradebook structure from one site to another | Y | N* | Y | The student grades are not imported. * It does not work in GB2: | |||
| Average Course Grade displayed to the hundredths | Y | Y | N | ||||
| Grading Schema fixed value for non letter grades | Y | ? | N | ||||
NOTES | Grade Schema chart displays GPA; chart updates with edits before saving applies adjusted grade result | N | N | Y | Notre Dame added GPA grade schema, and responsive chart GBNG Settings > Grading Schema page | ||
NOTES | Hide Items excludes them from Exported spreadsheet | N | N | N | |||
COMPLETE | Allow Letter Grades/Minimums to be removed from schema | Y (12.1) | "Remove" button allows letter grades such as D- to be removed from schema. | ||||
COMPLETE | Allow new letter grades/minimums to be added to schema | N | Y (12.1) | "Add a mapping" allows new letter grade to be added. | |||
DESIRED | View Section Statistics | Y | Y | N | |||
COMPLETE | Add a comment to a student particular grade in the external grade items | N | Y | Y | Cell contains a Add/Edit Comment selection for individual grade cells, regardless of the grade's origin. | ||
COMPLETE | Give ungraded no credit: set only one grade item to 0 | N | Y | Y (12) | Added ability to set a given gradebook item to zero or another value. | ||
| Revert the action of setting grade items to 0 | N | Y | N | pablo.sanroman@unavarra.es | |||
| History log. Register events related to: grade items, categories or gradebook | N | Y | N | Goal is to have more detailed reporting in the future that could include this. | |||
NOTES | Excel entry mode to input grades | N | Y | Y | Click directly into spreadsheet to enter grades; only applies to grades created in the Gradebook. External grades must be entered via tool of origin. | ||
NOTES | Sort categories | N | Y | Y | |||
| Submit final grades through InstitutionalAdvisor | N | Y | Needs clarification (3) | ||||
NOTES | Number of clicks to remove a Grade item | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||
IN PROGRESS | Site Imports/Copies import Gradebook NG items as "Not Release" and "Not included in Grade" | ? | Y | N | Method of delivery on this has been debated quite extensively, last report was that we would utilize the functionality of a "lightbox" to make this happen. | ||
DESIRED | Improve the "Item Order" button by adding the weight and points info | N | The "Item Order" button ( It may be useful to add the grade items points and the categories weight/points in that categories&grade items tree. | pablo.sanroman@unavarra.es | |||
DESIRED | Improve the categories creation mode | N | Right now, the instructor needs to go to the "Settings" page to create/edit/delete categories. It is not an intuitive front end. The category settings context should be in the Gradebook main page as where the grade item creation is.  | raul.sanchez@ticarum.es | |||
| All the grades of all the students visible to everybody | Each student would see the grades of the rest of the classmates, in order of transparency and other pedagogical matters. |
(1) Students won’t see in GB1 items created from Assignments or Assessments for an specific group if they are not members of the specific groups. Please see the point 4 from GAP analysis between Gradebook2 and Gradebook.
(2)Â GB1 is not able to import the "Gradebook Item Point Value" from the Loading Dock. Please see the image below: Â
(3) InstitutionalAdvisor is a java bean interface that allows submitting the final grades from Gradebook2 to a final SiS or LMS system. That interface must be implemented by the institution. This option is called "Submit Final Grade" in the "Tools" option from the Gradebook2's toolbar.
Queries results - data analysis about GradeBook2 usage
Former user (Deleted)Â shared the following queries that can help to understand Gradebook2 usage at your institution:Â https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e628571e0f712490346e
You could share the results of those queries in the following page .
What features could be added to Gradebook to close the gap
- Weighted items within a category
- Strike-through for dropped, excused scores
Making GradeBook2 functional in Sakai 11 (getting it working with Morpheus...)
Portal handlers are not processing GB2 content properly, maybe it could be fixed but I don’t know how, so far. After achieving GB2 iframeless ready, other problems will come out, mixing GWT javascript with common portal javascript could cause problems, nothing tested, so far.
Quick Fix  (by Former user (Deleted)): Still using iframes with GB2 adding this property to sakai.properties.
# Still IFRAMES with GB2
portal.iframesuppress=:all:sakai.rsf.evaluation:sakai.gradebook.gwt.rpc
version Gradebook2 1.8.1 working in the latest version of Sakai Trunk.
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IMPORTANT: This fix is not going to work anymore, Sakai 11 is upgraded to Spring 4 and GB2 is not compatible , it has to be fixed in order to run in Sakai 11.
UPDATE: A new patch to fix GB2 problems was added in