[OA] Gradebook Assessment Item Addition

[Les Richardson]

Hiya,

The problem is this:  When a teacher adds a new item, she/he doesn't know 
what kind of weighting to give to that item. Based on the group it's going 
into, this 'new improved' page will show, for each group, what is the most 
common weighting score.

By simply clicking the radio button of your choice, it automatically 
assigns the group and weight to match the other items of the same group.
(and of course one can still set the group and weight separately via the 
bottom box...)

The object of the game is to simplify the problems of continually having 
to reweight your items when new assessment items are added.


This change is designed to help with the problem of item weighting WITHIN 
groups.

Then, when we add group locking (at the subject level), the only choices 
teachers would have would be the weighting of items WITHIN those locked 
groups.

As a result, the weighting issue 'can' be simplified with something like 
what I have here, along with some sort of group locking. If desired, we 
could allow teachers to adjust the group percentages and lock/unlock 
features directly from the gradebook, also.

Does that make some sense (and I'm probably not explaining it very 
well...)?  How can I make this change easier to understand?


Les







On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, David Weber wrote:

> ok, i got in, but i'm not sure i understand how this is supposed to function.
> On 3-Mar-06, at 12:00 PM, Les Richardson wrote:
>
>> Sorry, it's 'richl' and 'richl'
>> 
>> Les
>> 
>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, David Weber wrote:
>> 
>>> richl and sezme doesn't seem to let me in. maybe i'm cookie- 
>>> conflicted...
>>> On 1-Mar-06, at 9:07 PM, Les Richardson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Ryan / David,
>>>> I've modified the Add Assessment Items (Add Items) script on the 
>>>> gradebook on the demo site. It now lists existing groups as well as 
>>>> the common item weights (and count of items using that weight) within 
>>>> that group.
>>>> This should then allow teachers to add more items into groups and keep 
>>>> the same weightings for items within group (or half or double, etc).
> i never saw this as a problem -- you can keep adding assignments to a group 
> and the group's weight will change, but the individual assignments keep the 
> weight values assigned to them as they did in the past.
>>>> Please critique and let me know if this solves/ameliorates the problem 
>>>> of adding items (and weighting them).
> i was expecting that we'd be able to fix the weight of a group at a certain 
> percentage of the overall mark and have it remain at that number no matter 
> how many or how few items  you put in the group...no?
>>>> This is now done in a single 'testadd' script, so the script count is 
>>>> also down.
>>>> Les
>>> 
>