2.5 Release

Projected scope of Sakai gradebook 2.5 release work:

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

Tendered Resources

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

Scope Under Discussion

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.

Gradebook 2.5 Wireframes

Gradebook 2.5 Wireframes - Annotated

Gradebook 2.5 Wireframes - No notes 

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  1. May 01, 2007

    Mike Osterman says:

    The version number may be the answer in itself, but is this being developed dire...

    The version number may be the answer in itself, but is this being developed directly against Sakai 2.5 or is it also planned to work on 2.4?

    The functionality is something we've been eagerly anticipating, but we may not be able to justify a wholesale switch to Sakai 2.5 during the academic year. Having the ability to plug this in to 2.4 would be fantastic.

    1. May 02, 2007

      Megan May says:

      Will definitely work with 2.4 IU is planning on implementing a slightly scaled b...

      Will definitely work with 2.4 - IU is planning on implementing a slightly scaled back version on June 2

  2. May 10, 2007

    Jason Shao says:

    Rutgers has integration with a homegrown SIS gradesubmission piece which I'd lov...

    Rutgers has integration with a home-grown SIS grade-submission piece which I'd love to mesh into whatever general support gets baked into Sakai proper. Still coming up to speed after my switch from the myRutgers team, so I'm not able to provide more details or an offer of work other than that – but I'm definitely interested in tracking this discussion.