This is exactly the sort of example (see below) I've been talking
about where we need to define a longer-term vision and strategy, and
communicate it to faculty.
BTW, the fact that I've gotten involved in the Sakai OAE community
already is having concrete impacts. I just got a note last night that
my recent suggestion to add this document viewer/annotator developed
by the New York Times to OAE has happened recently:
<http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/document-viewer/>
Example doc here:
<http://documents.nytimes.com/charles-darwin-on-the-origin-of-species#document/p185/a8>
This opens the door to the sort of assessment functionality we now
have in TII GradeMark, but having it integrated into the OAE core.
This isn't to trumpet my contribution: it is to say we all can have an
impact on how OAE evolves. But I don't think it'll happen unless we
prioritize it as an institution.
Bruce
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bruce D'Arcus <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: no gradebook categories grades?
To: Sakai Pilot Instructors and Training Team <[log in to unmask]>
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jacob Tonski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In Gradebook:
> File -> New Category
> % Grade represents how much this category contributes to its parent (which
> often will simply be the final grade, but you can also create
> sub-categories).
> Now you can simply drag assignments in the gradebook into any category. If
> you weight equally, things recalculate automatically.
True. But to Martin's question, I don't think you can get a breakdown
of how it's calculating each of those categories.
For me, I'd call this is a nice-to-have, but not necessary, feature
(necessary is the category weighting, which we already have), that
would good to get logged both:
1) in the Gradebook 2 project issue tracker
2) the OAE requirements design for assessment
Bruce
> On Apr 5, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Johnson, Martin P. Mr. wrote:
>
> Is it true that Niihka cannot calculate a category grade in the gradebook?
> (I spoke to a tech person about this).
>
> Example: I assign 8 short writings, which together account for 25% of the
> semester grade. It is the case that Niihka cannot tell me the overall short
> writing grade for each student?
>
> Knowing how students are doing in different areas of a course is essential
> (exams vs. papers vs. projects, etc.).
>
> Calling all Niihka pilot faculty---please ring in on this so that the Niihka
> tech people will see that this is a general problem and will prioritize this
> fix!
>
>
> Martin P. Johnson
> Assistant Professor of History
> Miami University Hamilton
> 1601 University Blvd
> Hamilton, Ohio 45011
>
> [log in to unmask]
> (513) 785-3273
> Fax: (513) 785-3145
>
>
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Bruce D'Arcus
Associate Professor, Graduate Director
Department of Geography
Miami University
234 Shideler Hall
Oxford, Ohio 45056
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Bruce D'Arcus
Associate Professor, Graduate Director
Department of Geography
Miami University
234 Shideler Hall
Oxford, Ohio 45056
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