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Loosely Coupled Gradebook Specs

January 30th, 2009 jonmott Leave a comment Go to comments

We’ve been making good progress on our loosely coupled gradebook project here at BYU. I’m posting a link to our working specifications document for review and comment.

The broad purposes of the project are to develop a web-based gradebook that will provide:

  • Integration our course management system(s)
  • Integration with our high-stakes proctored testing environment
  • Multiple “on-ramps” (integration points with other tools, systems and web 2.0 apps) for faculty to input and retrieve student performance measures
  • Easy importing and exporting of data
  • Flexible grade calculation
  • Direct interface with our student information system for grade posting

This is a key component of our larger open learning network strategy.

Feel free to review our specifications document and let us know what you think.

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  • Mike Jones
    I would add

    pushed customized notifications to students re when their grades change or new grades are entered (that's probably your multiple on-ramps bullet) and

    ability for teaching staff to send an email which says "change John Doe's grade on assignment 3 to 89" and the gradebook makes it so. One of the big pains with an online gradebook is making the inevitable little changes to grades.
  • Thanks for the feedback. We've planned for the first, but I don't think we'd thought of the second. I like it though. Great idea.
  • Have you seen what the einstructure guys have in a stand-alone (but embeddable) gradebook tool? They demo'ed it to me a couple months ago and I was impressed. I'd love to see yours too!
  • Yes, we've talked to them and we will some more. We haven't yet made the decision on the balance between internal & external development for this project. We could partner with someone, but one of our major requirements is that the product be non-proprietary, so that might rule some partners out. I'm hoping we'll have something substantial to demo by TTIX!
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