UMich suggested enhancements
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- Former user (Deleted)
Our largest college has a custom built gradebook that has reached end of life. They would like to use GB2 as a replacement but need certain features added to accommodate functions that had been provided by the legacy system. The list below is an overview of the features we would like to add, and is posted here to start a discussion with GB2 developers about what might already be on the todo list, what makes sense to add to trunk vs being UM specific and not generally usable by the community.
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Function |
Background (legacy feature) |
GB2 enhancement |
JIRA ticket |
1 |
Ability to easily set up a gradebook that includes all associated sections for the course |
GBs for all sections of a course can be viewed/compared, filtered according to section GSI. |
This will be a major part of the project - deciding on parent/child relationship. Possibly use existing parent/child site relationship and additional site properties and automated setup. This is the ability to compare one or more sections of a large introductory class to make decisions about grade parity across sections by different GSIs. The ability to aggregate all the data in one view. Look at Math 115, import all math 115 .xxx section GBs. Some mechanism to control what comes in so that for example, just exams are shown because just exams (not 'local' quizzes) are consistent across sections. |
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2 |
Views of gradebook defined by role |
An admin can see all sections, a GSI can see only their sections. GSIs see only their sections. Admin can filter on section(s). Role control over Sections, combined sections, course, combined courses. Control over weightings/settings vs ability to grade or add an assignment. |
May need finer grained permissions to control which roles can see what. We have roles, autogroup by section, adhoc groups so the setup is probably there. We'll need to check the permission control to be sure we can provide automated read permission per role. Need revise.own (GSI), revise.any (Owner). Need Who can I see and what can I do control over GB Item. |
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3 |
Ability to assign publish date for items or category scores to student view |
When students can see the grade/score they've been given. A release date. |
GB2 has release, if not released, student can't see. Need to add a release at this date. |
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4 |
Drop lowest score automatically (don't count in final grade calculation) |
Yes (available in all modules except Omni II) |
Dropping lowest score in a category is in GB2 when items have the same points possible. Need to add the alternative where the score which raises the grade the most is dropped to allow dropping lowest when points are not equal (so that the total points for dropped items don't have to be equal between students) |
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5 |
Ability to adjust points across a category to every student |
Yes |
This would need to be cognizant of parent/child sites, allow cascading to child sites or not. Adjust points to a category (which is then impacted by the weighting of the category). In a category to every student, independent of any particular item in the category. Add/subtract points from the category. |
workaround exists |
6 |
Modification of final letter grade |
Yes. At final stage, instructor can overwrite the compiled letter grade provided via SAMS. |
GB1 had this capability. Add a similar feature to override final calculated grade. |
non-issue |
7 |
Statistics: mean, median, mode, standard dev of all grades for a given category |
By module, yes |
Yes - confirm the flexibility of this (e.g., by section? in comparison to others? by grader, etc.?) |
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8 |
Table reports by section and overall course |
Table display available for all modules. |
Anything planned? |
http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/browse/GRBK-482 (see also item 9) |
9 |
Histogram reports by section and overall course |
Availability based on module - in all but Omni II and Discussion |
Anything planned? |
http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/browse/GRBK-482 (see also item 8) |
10 |
Score report of the class as a whole and by student |
Yes - applies weights to points prior to display by class. Can be viewed in detail for each student. |
Yes - but it's points only, even if the category is weighted. Add a toggle that shows scores with weight applied. If a category with 3 exams is worth 50%, and you get 70 out of 100 for each, flipping to show weighted shows 50%x70 for each. Show the contribution to the final grade based on weighting. This is more for the student view but instructor would want it too. |
http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/browse/GRBK-483 (see also item 13) |
11 |
Score report by section |
Yes |
By section by student, summary for a section, by multiple sections to compare (to compare sections/GSIs) |
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12 |
Student search |
last, first, combined, UMID and unique |
Add search by last, first, combined, UMID and uniqname fields. Add sorting controls over columns viewed in report. |
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13 |
Ability to click on student, within roster, to see scores across categories |
yes (more detailed - weights where applied) |
yes (note only points) |
http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/browse/GRBK-483 (see also item 10) |
14 |
Support Final Letter grade submission |
Yes. Exports as CSV for Wolverine Access upload. |
Implement a submit final grades function that (phase 1) exports a csv file in a format suitable for Wolverine Access upload without modification. |
non-issue |
15 |
Normalization for exams |
Chem 125/126 has special "double exam score" feature in Student Grade/Grade Report panel. If 2 exams, and first has lower score than 2nd, drop 1st and double value of 2nd. |
Related to item 16 Algorithm on excused items. |