It would be nice if the students name highlighted in the gradebook so that you could be sure you were entering the grade in the correct line. You could possibly make the entire row for that student highlight in some way.
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Adam Sentz Official comment Gradebook row highlighting is working again!
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Jessica Babaker I agree! This would make it much easier to look at all the assignments down the row, particularly assignments at the end of the row, since you cannot scroll past the last column to bring it directly alongside the list of students' names.
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Adam Sentz It might be worth trying entering grades on the assignment page instead of in the gradebook.
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Jessica Babaker Hi Adam,
This is not an issue for me with entering grades, so much has auditing the entire class. I do ultimately click on each student, and then each assignment to make sure I am being thorough, but it would be helpful to be able to see the big picture more clearly.
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Jason Long I posted this in 2016 and never heard anything about it until now??? Strange. And Adam, my students are working on numerous assignments at a time and generally hand them in all at the end of the week, I get 2-4 assignments from each student so I enter them in the gradebook tab because it is easier than constantly switching back and forth between the individual assignments. Seems like a simple ask since the assignment pages already do this.
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Adam Sentz Jessica Babaker - Are you just looking to make sure everything's graded; that kind of thing?
Jason Long - Right on. I'd probably use the assignments tab of the student page (click one them in the roster) if I had a stack for each student. -
Jessica Babaker Adam, I am looking to verify the grades for each student, for each assignment, and also to verify that grades have been entered by the instructor for each student for each assignment. Our grading system is pass/fail and we use a 0/1 points as much as possible, but some assignments (like Populi tests) always show a percentage, so in those cases I am looking to make sure that everyone is above a certain percentage.
I usually check this at the halfway point and the end of each course, so I'm always dealing with multiple assignments. I try to do this from the gradebook, because that is the best way to get a bird's eye view, and I can spot outliers pretty quickly, but it gets difficult to trace them back to the correct student. Then, I'm using my finger or a sheet of paper to trace it, and it's just plain frustrating.
An alternative improvement that would help with visibility would be to allow scrolling the last assignment column all the way over the left, next to the student names, and likewise, being able to scroll the last student all the way up to the top row, directly beneath the assignments header.
Of course, I do use the roster to look at each student individually, but it would be nice to be able to move more quickly sometimes, and the gradebook could be so useful for that.
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Adam Sentz Jessica Babaker - Thanks for sharing.
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