A few people have contacted me for more clarification on the issue of
modifying gradebook items that I referred to last week.
Hopefully my summary here is accurate, but I stand to be corrected by others
if it's not.
It does appear that in version 5.x of Bb only manually entered items in the
gradebook have the option for making them visible or not to the students.
All quizzes, which are automatically marked and scored by the system, are
automatically available to students directly. Not sure of the rationale for
this, but it appears to have been changed in version 6. It is now possible
to adjust the properties of all items in the gradebook, as well some good
enhancements for grading and displaying results.
PS, we have just (this weekend) upgraded our production server to v6.0.5,
and will be keeping a very close eye on performance and configuration.
Perhaps I can inform the list of our experience for those who are still
debating whether or not to complete the upgrade.
Mark Northover
UNITEC
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