Gradebook Query

[brains]

I am working my way through this excellent component and have been impressed thus far.

A couple of queries about the 'gradebook':

1) I have a course which will have many assignments. From what I can see thus far the grades are displayed horizontally (in course admin view) i.e.:

Student : Group: Result 3, Result 2, Result 1: Certificate.

If I have a large number of assignments then this creates horizontal scrolling and does not look great. It would be nice to be able to select the assignment results to review or be able to hide some results in some way.

2) Also, when I click to update the student results all the marks disappear i.e. the ones that were already entered are no longer there.

Hope this feedback helps and wondered if you knew the solution to 2)

[den]

Thanks for your feedback.
Point 2) will be fixed in next build.

[andreas]

It may be awkward to do horizontal scrolling, however for database integrity one row should always be a dataset (student) and one column should be one variable (exam, homework etc. of the student). I see no way how that could be accomplished in a different way than the one that is presently realized. The only option might be, having several pages instead of scrolling, if there are too many assignments.

[brains]

I was thinking that maybe there could be a selection page (or maybe some form of AJAX utility) to select/hide the columns? I can have over 50 results for a course per student so the horizontal scrolling is not great,especially if I only need the last 3 or 4 showing, or, if I need only test results and not homework showing.

Maybe someone will come up with a solution.

[bjarne]

We will look at this! Thanks.

[tantotea]

1. What is Gradebook? I tried to find from the teacher tutorial but could not find.
The help link is broken.

2. When teacher assigns an assignment to a student, which way should he go: through drop box or through homework? How does teacher mark an assignment? How do they relate to Gradebook?

Sorry for asking these questions.. I am a bit confused

Thanks.

Regards,

[den]

1. What is Gradebook? I tried to find from the teacher tutorial but could not find.
The help link is broken.

Try HELP menu item from our site.

2. When teacher assigns an assignment to a student, which way should he go: through drop box or through homework? How does teacher mark an assignment? How do they relate to Gradebook?

At 'HomeWork' teacher could define homework for students, view their completed status, mark their completed status.
DropBox - for exchanging files between teacher and learners.
Ex. teacher can send helping files for homework via DropBox; Student send completed homework (MSWORD file) to teacher via DropBox....

These assignments don't relate to to Gradebook directly. But teacher can create his own grade item and use it for some assignment (as on paper).

Also some Gradebook items created automatically. They are created for Learning paths, SCORM packages and Quizzes (if you select the option 'use in gradebook' while creating it).