This is an open forum to discuss the implications of a move from Gradebook2 to GradebookNG (result of the Gradebook Enhacements Project). If your institution is currently using Gradebook2, we encourage you to join the discussion and share your thoughts and concerns about the risks/advantages of switching to the new redesigned Gradebook.
Folks from Universidad de Murcia (Spain) and Texas State University (USA) organized an online BoF to start the discussion. If you could not attend, don't worry, it was recorded (available soon) and there is plenty of information for you to check afterwards.
BoF: Migrating from Gradebook2 to the new GradebookNG for Sakai 11 - JULY, 29th - 9am-10am EST
Next BoF: September-October?
Institutions using GB2
From the: Sakai Showcase Webinar: The Gradebook Enhancement Project
Outdated list of institutions using Gradebook2 - https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SG2X/Institutions+Using+Gradebook2 (Needs to be updated)
Sakai Tools Survey 2014 results: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TCC/Sakai+Tool+Survey+Results+2014
Institutions considering migrating
Universidad de Murcia
Texas State University
Surely most of the Scriba institutions...
Gap analysis between GradeBook2 and GradeBook
GAP analysis between Gradebook2 and Gradebook (UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k8lyzpdIWax1EIFT9fMPx7qV75i2EQVwwqHKGeVhB4M/edit (TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY)
Quick Check List (Thanks Former user (Deleted)). Please, feel free to add new rows if needed.
| GB1 [11.x] | GB2 [1.9.2] | GB NG | Related JIRA | |
| Weighted items | N | Y | N | |
| Able to include an item in the final grade if such item is not visible to students | N | Y | N | |
| Option to choose if grades are re-escaled when Gradebook Item Point Value is changed | N | Y | ||
| Student section awareness for items created from external tools | Y | N | ||
| Export the final course grades in PDF format | Y | N | ||
| Export the student's final points summation | Y | N | ||
| Export the student grades to PDF format | Y | N | ||
| Loading Dock | Y | N | ||
| Import/Export the full Gradebook Structure (categories, weights) | N | Y | ||
| Import more than one grade item | N | Y | ||
| Import the "Gradebook Item Point Value" | N | Y | ||
| Allow the category weights summation be different from 100% | N | Y | ||
| Average course grade, Student final point summation, Category class average, Grade item class average, Student category average | Y | N | ||
| Possibility to discard the highest grades or keep the highest grades in the Category | Y | N | ||
| Number of clicks to remove a Grade item | 4 | 2 | ||
| Set Ungraded Items to Zero: set all gradebook items included in the final grade to 0 | Y | N | ||
| Give ungraded no credit: set only one grade item to 0 | N | Y | ||
| Revert the action of setting grade items to 0 | N | Y | ||
| History log. Register events related to: grade items, categories or gradebook | N | Y | ||
| Excel entry mode to input grades | N | Y | ||
| Sort categories | N | Y |
Queries results analysis between GradeBook2 and GradeBook -
Former user (Deleted) shared the following queries that can help to understand Gradebook2 usage at your institution: 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
- ...
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.
Documentation to help users transition from GradeBook2 to GradeBook
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k8lyzpdIWax1EIFT9fMPx7qV75i2EQVwwqHKGeVhB4M/edit (TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY)