Friday, April 30, 2010

Tip & Bug Report: Gradebook Setting

With our current version of ANGEL (7.3) there’s a Gradebook setting you don’t want to use. If you select Manage tab > Gradebook > Preferences, you’ll see the Show Grades for Dropped Students checkbox option. Don’t select it. This has always been the recommendation during iTeach Online training sessions (offered for JCCC fcaulty at the college). By default the setting is unchecked and there is no reason for faculty to ever check it because students who drop a course (in Banner--our system is integrated with our SIS) are automatically dropped from the course in ANGEL (so their grades won’t show no matter what you do). If the student is reinstated, all their work and grades reappear intact.

The bug is this: if you select the option, students who have not dropped will (randomly) disappear from your Gradebook. They’ll appear in the class Roster, just not in the Gradebook.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Jonathon,

At my institution, our setup is exactly the same as yours.. we are running Banner and have ANGEL 7.3 installed.

I'd like to know if ANGEL retains all of a student's submissions and grades should they get deleted and re-added by Banner/XEI.. we did not have this option with our previous learning mgmt system (when a student was removed from a course, all info was permanently removed).

We were thinking about disabling their access to the course but they would still appear in the gradebook and that is not what our instructors want.

Unknown said...

We have tested and verified that with XEI/Banner integration, students dropped in Banner are removed from the ANGEL course roster. If they are reinstated, all of their activity is also reinstated. There may be settings managed by the server admin that turns on/off this feature. ANGEL Support would be able to confirm if this is the default or requires special settings.

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