The Sakai Developers have created a new gradebook tool for instructors to effectively calculate and store grade information and distribute it to students online. It was designed based on the same backbone of the gradebook tool that we've been using, now called "Gradebook Classic," with a number of enhancements and features. This new gradebook will be available to us in Sakai v. 12, but Gradebook Classic, our old gradebook tool, will still be available and will continue to automatically be populated with your students grades if you have the tool installed in your course. For a short video intro, please click here.
Some of the new features are:
- Spreadsheet-style grade entry
- Automatic saving/ score validation
- Individual student Grade Summary screens, with integrated Student Review Mode
- Simplified and consolidated Import/ Export process
- Enhanced statistics for graded items
- Flexible display options for final course grades (letter grade, percentage, points)
- Improved accessibility
- Simplified settings screen