Development talk:Assignment development

If I am understanding you correctly, I respectfully disagree with your position that grading and commenting should be separated. As an instructor, I can't very well separate giving a student a grade and telling him or her why the grade was assigned. In my institution, we use tablets. This means that we markup student submissions and would like to return them to the students electronically. It is much better to be able to return the graded file as part of the assignment. Students and instructors both will see this as natural. I was pleased when the new gradebook allowed for decimal points on grade input (as opposed to the integer only drop down box in the assignment grading interface). I was not pleased to find the text window so tiny that I could only see about 5 characters of text! Maybe this is a US grading practice, but I find that many of my instructors who are new to moodle don't even realize they CAN grade in the assignment interface. They naturally gravitate to the gradebook. Perhaps the whole workflow really needs to be examined closely. Are there differences in different countries? Or can one model fit all? I think it is not that easy!! But I am very interested in this development.

A. T. Wyatt 11:24, 7 December 2008 (CST)