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[Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Alan Elkner <aelkner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are two issues with updating the grades of the external
> activity.  First, can someone remind me why the user needs to click
> 'Manage Worksheet', then click the link for the external activity,
> then click 'Update Grades'?  I know the gradebook spreadsheet renders
> its content from getting evaluations stored by the activity, in this
> case, the linked activity, not the external one.  However, to save the
> user this painful navigation process each time they change something
> in cando or the journal, couldn't we just have the gradebook rendering
> engine go ahead and do the updating of all external activity
> evaluations?  Would this slow it down too much?  I can't say for sure
> myself.

One problem is that the external source might keep changing after the
end of the term -- this is particularly the case with CanDo -- which
would mean that your historical grades would be inaccurate.  Basically
keeping this less magical and more manual makes unexpected results
less likely.

On the other hand, it doesn't have to be difficult or tedious to
update the column.  Probably we need some kind of pop-up menu or
something on the column to let you by-pass all these clicks.

--Tom