- negates need for pages of students
- removes nested spans for handling categories and course category (along with the '+', '-' and 'o' buttons nobody seems able to find)
- operates under Firefox, Safari, Opera and IE7 & IE8 (no support for IE6)
- includes a "Copy to Excel" button for quick dumps of report contents (formatted as seen with item maxgrades)
- allows input of letter grades which are converted to numeric values based on letter-grade setup for course
With special thanks to Jaimon Mathew's JS, I'm pleased to offer a grader report alternative which scrolls in both directions -- available here (404kb). Some features:
I did want to make one clarification on this report... because we don't force you to make the regular grader report unavailable, you must turn off fixed students column (off by default, Site administration->Grades->Reports->Grader).
thanks! works like a charm
That's awesome! There's just one minor issue we've spotted - the tooltips on the cells don't quite work... they show the HTML markup instead of rendering it. Might just need to call the JS function that the original Grader Report uses to display the tooltips?
I've disabled the tooltips -- they were nice to start with but caused some problems and we're no longer needed with this report where you can easily see which student and which grade item you're editing/viewing.
Musta deleted the line that explained the markup you see is for accessibility.
Thanks, Bob. This is much better than the original grade report!
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Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Martin Dougiamas -
Thanks Bob! Could you list it in the modules and plugins database?
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Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
Done. Thanks, Martin.
Hi guys,
This plugin looks great but I'm having a few technical issues.
1- The scroll bars aren't showing (I've tried freezing and unfreezing the names in the grader report settings but no luck)
2- It seems to be adding a two columns at the start but not moving my grades (so the grades are now under the wrong assignments - see attachment).
Any ideas why???
Thanks, Kat
We've only seen this when the students column is set to fixed (Site administration->Grades->Reports->grader
Dear All,
Kindly note that the Layout of LAEgrader is working fine with Firefox. But it is not working with IE7 or IE8?
Any recommendations?
I attached a print screen of the layout.
Thank you,
Best Regards,
Anis
Kindly note that the Layout of LAEgrader is working fine with Firefox. But it is not working with IE7 or IE8?
Any recommendations?
I attached a print screen of the layout.
Thank you,
Best Regards,
Anis
I am indeed quite sorry to hear about the difficulties you're having. I'm wondering if you'd be so kind as to check out using the Moodle Standard theme to remove all possibilities that your theme, in some way is interfering with proper operation. Also... just to make certain, Java Script needs to be enabled in the browser. I have the LAEgrader working on IE8 on the PC just to my left and I know of a number of schools who have it also operational in that context so it will be very good to find out what difference your environment presents that keeps it from working there.
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Hi Bob,
Thanks for that. If I don't have the student column fixed then the grades are fine. But no matter what settings I use I can't see the scroll bars within the browser frame (I have the normal ones on my browser). There should be both a horizontal and a vertical scroll bar inside right?
I have tried to view it in both Firefox 3.6 and IE8. Any ideas???
Thanks heaps,
Kat
What is your screen resolution?
Try FF from another computer.
Try using the standard theme.
Make sure JavaScript is enabled.
Are you running IE8 in compatibility mode? The instance I'm looking at is not and it looks fine.
Very interested in your environment as we have this working on a LOT of PCs and Macs number of schools using FF, Opera, Chrome, Safari and (on the PC), IE7 and IE8. I haven't found any themes where by it doesn't work (we use modified Zebra).
Try FF from another computer.
Try using the standard theme.
Make sure JavaScript is enabled.
Are you running IE8 in compatibility mode? The instance I'm looking at is not and it looks fine.
Very interested in your environment as we have this working on a LOT of PCs and Macs number of schools using FF, Opera, Chrome, Safari and (on the PC), IE7 and IE8. I haven't found any themes where by it doesn't work (we use modified Zebra).
Looks like the download link is broken. Can you revise the link or provide a new one for the download?
Thanks!
--Jeff Snyder
I'm sorry Jeff, I didn't catch your message in my digest. I checked the download link and it seems to be working okay. I am releasing an update which (in a few days) will also be available through the Modules and Plugins. The link is restated here.
Features:
Features:
- scrolls horizontally and vertically while freezing the student columns and the grade item rows
- negates need for pages of students
- removes nested spans for handling categories and course category (along with the '+', '-' and 'o' buttons nobody seems able to find)
- operates under Firefox, Safari, Opera and IE7 & IE8 (no support for IE6)
- includes a "Copy to Excel" button for quick dumps of report contents (formatted as seen with item maxgrades)
- allows input of letter grades which are converted to numeric values based on letter-grade setup for course
- "editalways" user preference that displays grades editable but in their selected display type
- allows input of percentage values followed by %
- wrapped grade item titles
- tweaking to css to straighten out the table lines
- Range row (if turned on) frozen at the top, below the grade item names
- lang files are self-contained
Dear Bob,
Thank you for the updated version.
While we installed it we got these error messages:
grade/report/laegrader plugin needs upgrading
Could not set up the capabilities for laegrader!
Thank you
Anis
Thank you for the updated version.
While we installed it we got these error messages:
grade/report/laegrader plugin needs upgrading
Could not set up the capabilities for laegrader!
Thank you
Anis
This error comes about from the "name changing" ("LAE" to "lae"). My upgraded version was designed to make those changes so the name change would be transparent. I'll check into it this morning.
Well, I'd like to offer a more complete solution after more investigation but the quick solution is to "one-up" the version number contained in the file grade/report/laegrader/db/upgrade.php. That allows the capabilities to be changed appropriately.
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Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Jaione Irisarri -
Hello Bob,
Can you explain a bit more about the "quick solution". I don't understand the "one-up" instruccion about the number of the version.
What do I have to do? Change it? To what?
Sorry if I'm asking a obvious thing... but I don't understand it
Thanks,
Jaione.
Can you explain a bit more about the "quick solution". I don't understand the "one-up" instruccion about the number of the version.
What do I have to do? Change it? To what?
Sorry if I'm asking a obvious thing... but I don't understand it
Thanks,
Jaione.
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Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
Yeah, I'd have to agree that answer assumed an understanding of how plugins install. I'll try to do better here:
There's a more correct way to have the install run but I've been spared little time from normal duties... so hope to get to that in the next few days.
- Edit the upgrade.php file found in the grade/report/laegrader/db folder so the line that says:
if ($plugin->version < 2010081300) {
says
if ($plugin->version < 2010081301) {
- Save and re-run Site administration->Notifications... you'll get the "laegrader report needs updating" and then it will update.
There's a more correct way to have the install run but I've been spared little time from normal duties... so hope to get to that in the next few days.
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Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Jaione Irisarri -
Hello again Bob,
I'm sorry to bother you but... I've done that (change the number) but now when I re-run Site administration->Notifications.. appears the word "Success" three times and nothing more. Then I try to see the Grades and I obtain a white screen...
Any idea of what I've done wrong?
Thanks,
Jaione.
I'm sorry to bother you but... I've done that (change the number) but now when I re-run Site administration->Notifications.. appears the word "Success" three times and nothing more. Then I try to see the Grades and I obtain a white screen...
Any idea of what I've done wrong?
Thanks,
Jaione.
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Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
I'm sorry about the difficulty you're encountering. The three "successes" (probably green) are indicating successful completion of a query... with the version you've downloaded you'll get those every time you run notiifications. I can make the following suggestions towards the white screen:
"It is a pitiful thing to change the naming case for a Moodle plugin".
- Make certain you set your role permissions for the "grader" report to "prohibit".
- Make sure you don't have an "LAEgrader" report directory in addition to the "laegrader" report directory.
- Make sure your "laegrader" directory and all its contents have the appropriate permissions.
"It is a pitiful thing to change the naming case for a Moodle plugin".
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Hi Chris,
Yes, in fact its recommended that you hide the regular Grader report (though it cannot be hidden from the site admin). The steps:
The laeuser report is in limited distribution and planned for general distribution within the next four weeks.
Yes, in fact its recommended that you hide the regular Grader report (though it cannot be hidden from the site admin). The steps:
- Site Administration block->Users->Permissions->Define Roles
- With each role (likely only editingteacher and teacher, unless you've cloned some)
- edit the role
- change the gradereport/grader:view capabilities to "prohibit"
- Save the permission changes
- first for the last report the user used
- then for a report called "grader" if present and accessible for this role
- then for a report called "user" if present, blah, blah, blah
- then alphabetically
The laeuser report is in limited distribution and planned for general distribution within the next four weeks.
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Thanks for the feedback... I've added these directions to docs page which should come up from the docs link in your theme's footer.
I posted an update to the CLAMP "laegrader" report available for download here.
This fixes the "rough around the edges" install we encountered due to renaming "LAE" to "lae". It also:
This fixes the "rough around the edges" install we encountered due to renaming "LAE" to "lae". It also:
- Copies category and item weights out to the Excel spreadsheet
- Removes the alt text that was popping up when grades were moused over
- fixes a few cosmetics with css
- CLAMP is committed to supporting this grade report plugin because we believe the features provided are critical to our instructors ability to easily and accurately grade using Moodle
- We are also committed to NOT allowing this plugin to become a "branch" or "fork" thereby setting users up to be ophaned if Moodle goes another direction. The laegrader report will be using mainstream Moodle libraries, it will be upgraded to 2.0 as soon as that becomes a more stable development arena.
Hello Bob,
I am getting an error in the LAE grader report, the grade item header overlaps with user details, grades values mis-aligned with the grade item headers, both vertical and horizontal navigation bars are visible, but the alignment is not proper. The first grader item header goes completely in user details column when user first name or last name is large
Hello Bob,
I have tried all the themes but when the firstname or lastname is long the header and the column below are mis-aligned. So far only with standard theme is displaying the appropriate result but when the firstname or lastname is large the standard theme also fails in displaying correctly aligned grade item header and grade item values column
Hi,
Yes, I can see how particularly long names can cause overflow. There's some trickery required in order to get that name column to behave. A variable named $whiteline contains a series of underscores.
Make sure you have the latest download.
In grade/report/laegrader/lib.php function get_headerhtml() extend the two occasions of the variable, $whiteline to be as long as you need to handle naming in your school (around line 334).
Yes, I can see how particularly long names can cause overflow. There's some trickery required in order to get that name column to behave. A variable named $whiteline contains a series of underscores.
Make sure you have the latest download.
In grade/report/laegrader/lib.php function get_headerhtml() extend the two occasions of the variable, $whiteline to be as long as you need to handle naming in your school (around line 334).
Hello Bob,
Your suggestion has worked and the report headers and column values are perfectly aligned without any errors.
Thanks a lot.
Instructions say to remove it before I install a newer version. How do I remove it?
Thanks,
Colleen
Thanks,
Colleen
If you have a directory moodleroot/grade/report/LAEgrader you should remove it before you install moodleroot/grade/report/laegrader (case change).
the latest release mentioned in this forum now takes into account the longest names and assigns the width of the student name column accordingly so this (INCREDIBLY TACKY) hack is no longer needed.
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Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Michael Jenkins -
Hello,
I have just installed the LAE Grader, very nice. . . . when using Firefox..
I have shown another member of staff who uses Interent Explorer 8 and they get a very disjointed view, the scroll bars are not with the grading tabe, and everything seems to be in the wrong place, are there any known issues with this in IE8?
If so please could you let me know how I fix this?
Moodle Server
Windows Server2k8 running WAMP
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Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
I'm sorry your colleague is having problems with the report in IE. I find IE-8 working quite well on my PC tho it seemingly requires a screen refresh once when initialized (can't say why that is). Have they attempted viewing in compatibility mode?
I love this...but we are having a different problem. While the report itself is great, since we installed it we are having problems with the screen where you grade activity submissions. It does not collapse and is huge wide no matter what browser is used and what theme is selected. It returns to normal once I remove the laegrader report (which I do not want to do.) It actually goes away once I remove the styles.php file. This of course isn't a solution as it makes the laegrader report look bad. Screen shots below....Any thoughts?
Without the styles.php file...
With the file...
Okay...fixed it. The problem was in the styles file in that it redid some global styles instead of simply doing the ones for laegrager. My fixed file is attached in the laegrader zip.
Next...while I LOVE this gradebook enhancement, we found a couple of items that made it unuable for us without modification.
1. Since the categories do not collapse we needed a way to "hide" other quarters so the gradebook only showed the current one.
2. We didn't want any hidden items to show in this view. We feel that hidden items should not count in a grade. If it counts...the students (and parents) should be able to see the grade.
Sooo... we made a couple of small modifications that prevents hidden items from showing (or calculating) in the laegrader report. Otherwise it is as intended by the original developers. Our hack is attached with the updated styles.php file.
If you like laegrader in its original form, you can simply copy in the styles.php file into your installation to fix the assigment grading issue.
Brian
Brian,
Thanks for working with this. I'll take a look at the "hidden" hidden items... perhaps we can set a preference to allow both. Will also diff the styles.php so we eliminate any global styles overrides.
bob puffer
CLAMP
Bob,
This is going to sound like a crazy request, but do you know how I can add the date the grade was receved to the grade report. Of all the things this is a request for FAA reporting.
Thanks again,
Forrest Gaston
I uploaded the wrong styles file. Here is the correct one!
FYI...I think the ability to not display or calculate hidden items would make this more usable, escpecially for the secondary schools like ours that have 4 quarters during the year, but only want the current quarter info displayed or calculated.
Brian
Thanks for this ferreting out, Brian. The latest version of laegrader is available here with this styles.php change in place.
My LAEgrader report is working fine in Firefox but as soon as I switch to IE some machines do not display any learners names and then others display learner names but the rows are underneath the learner names.
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Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Claire Browne -
A little update!
I have reszed the .js file and now have everything aligned except for the firstname and surname.
the firstname and surname seem to be on two different rows, what is the setting to change it to one line?
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Vastus: Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Tõnis Tartes -
file laegrader/lib.php @ around line 866
Remove the <br /> sitting before <span class="lastname">
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Re: Vastus: Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
If you're going to put first and last names on the same line you'll need to adjust the column width to acccommodate. The function is get_headerhtml() around line 310. If anyone is interested in modding so this is configurable, I'd surely include it in the release locations.
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Vastus: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Tõnis Tartes -
I need some help..
I tried to install this module multiple times but didnt worked out fine... so i turned on the debugging messages and got this:
The grade table doesnt look either the way i should be:
Any ideas what i've done wrong with installing or maybe theres something wrong with my configuration?
Moodle version 1.9.10+(20101124).
Thanks
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Re: Vastus: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
Not sure you've done anything wrong. I spent a bit of time last week cleaning up some notices that crept in during one or another upgrade of code. You don't see any of this if debugging is off but I don't want it there anyway. Will be glad to post the cleaned version (which will be released with the next CLAMP LAE version of Moodle later this month). Heading out to a meeting and will be back to post the updated zip file afterwards.
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Re: Vastus: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
I've placed an updated laegrader.zip out on my website.
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Vastus: Re: Vastus: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Tõnis Tartes -
Very nice, thanks!
Hi everyone,
I've just tried installing the laegrader on Moodle 1.9.3. When I first navigated to the Notifications page I got a message telling me the grader needs upgrading, with nothing else, not even the continue button. If I now navigate to the laegrader view in a course, I get a blank white page.
I've had a look through the code and there is a file referenced which doesn't seem to exist in my Moodle install (grade/edit/tree/lib.php). We have several Moodle 1.9.3 installs here and none of them have this file. Is the laegrader not compatible with Moodle 1.9.3?
Thanks in advance for any info/advice .
Lynn
The laegrader report is compatible with 1.95 - 1.9.11.
Have you any plans to modify it for versions 2.x?
Yes, as soon as I get through the beginning of our year I expect this will get a good deal of my attention. I've looked over the 2.x gradebook code and see very few changes but expect their might be some formatting changes needed because of the reduced screen real estate in some configurations. Keep watching and thanks for your interest.
I saw this thread after I had posted on another thread (http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=182554). I see that you've been busy with fixing LAEgrader. Any news on a 2.x version? I also see that you are aware of the screen real estate issues. thanx again for working on this.
Hi Amir,
Sorry to say that the 2.x version of laegrader has taken a back seat to other matters since none of our CLAMP schools are looking at 2.x before Summer, 2012. The project that's been having me for lunch is passing its critical exposure phase so hopefully I can devote some time to this in October. Last time I looked there were not serious issues making a port -- the basics of $DB conversions and some other stuff. Not much has been done functionally to the gradebook from 1.9x to 2.x.
I'm pleased to say I hear from all sorts of folks from all over the world who are making this report work well for them so I am anxious to make it available to those who've made the jump into 2.x.
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to report a bug on the LAEGrader Report w/frozen headers & names.
Desription: In edit mode, the grade table scrolls towards the left and covers up the students name completely when you press the tab key on the last row of grade input box.
Browsers: Firefox 3.x, 4.x on both Win & Mac
Thank you for the feedback. I've been aware of this behavior when using the tab key from the bottom of a column and am working at the resolution. The workaround my instructors use is to click to the top, once they've reached the bottom of a column. Because both the laegrader and regular grader reports are very slow with large classes or classes with a lot of grades we are currently working on a solution similar to LSU's "Quick grade" which allows you to grade an entire column or row in a separate pop-up and doesn't have such an enormous post load.
Looking for the 'help' files for laegrader for when you click on the "?" for laegrader in 'my preferences'.
the two help files seem to be missing:
gradeeditalways.html and
laegraderreportheight.html
Sorry, Roger -- I'll have to work those up.
"gradeeditalways" places you in a mode where editing of the laegrader report is always on
"laegraderreportheight" is the number of pixels tall of the scrolling portion of the laegrader window
Thanks, I thought I'd point it out. I went through a couple other versions and didn't find them in those either.
I'm the installer. The person going through some of the modules noticed it. I cut a paragraph from the online docs and used the paragraph to create the needed help files.
She didn't like my first revision, "Quit Pestering Roger", so I had to add the actual wording from the docs.
Hi ,Bob , I want to ask some question about your gradebook. can you explain to me the different of the weighted mean of grades and the simple weighted mean of grades.
there are two quizs in my course.one weighted 50%,another weighted 50%,how to calculate the total grade? my mean is 100*50%+10*50%=55,why 110 ? as the picture
below.
another question is"do the total grade for every student in the table of the datebase？which table".
thanks,
min
Hi Min,
I'm guessing your course total is set to display type, "Real" which in our gradebook means "points". Point calculations will never take into account weights, nor can they -- they are just a tallying of the total points. Percentage grades and letter grades take into account weights so if you used a display type of "percent" or "letter" for you course total, you should see your weights accurately reflected. If the maximums for both quizzes are 100 and 10, respectively than your course total would show 100% or A (in English).
To change the display type of the course total, turn editing on and click the edit icon (usually a hand with a pencil) under the course total header.
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回复: Re: 回复: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by min ihope -
Hi Bob,
Thank you for your answer,I have another question:
1.when I chose the weighted mean of grade ,it should give every student a total grade,for example,total=test1*weight1+test2*weight2+...,but in your grade report ,it just give the sum of every student ,not the total with weighted,only give the avarage .
Can you tell me the reason ,follow the picture below.
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Re: 回复: Re: 回复: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
Again, what is displayed in the course total is entirely dependent on the "Display type" for the course total. If it is set to "Real" you will get the total of the values to the left, regardless of weights... which is as it should be.
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by min ihope -
hi Bob,
Thank you very much !
I have another question ,I want to know the final grade in the mdl_grade_grades how to ralated to the course? If I want to get a student 'final grade in one of his course.can you help me to write a SQL : eg.select ......from..(finalgrade) ... where userid=3 and courseid=3.thank you!
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Re: 回复: Re: 回复: Re: 回复: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
SELECT u.username, gg.finalgrade FROM mdl_grade_grades gg
JOIN mdl_grade_items gi on gg.itemid = gi.id
JOIN mdl_course c on c.id = gi.courseid
JOIN mdl_user u on u.id = gg.userid
WHERE c.id = <your course id>
AND u.id = <your user id>
AND gi.itemtype = 'course'
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by min ihope -
Thank you very much !
Bob ,you help a lot!
Thank you
When editing is turned on I get a mismatch on column alignment. This occurs in all browsers.
Also, any way to bring back collapsable categories?
Thanks
This problem is seen only when quick feedback is displayed and then only under certain theme configurations. A css fix has been made available in recent releases of CLAMP LAE moodle... the code, as follows would go into the grade/report/laegrader/styles.php:
/***
*** added the following for the alignment issues
***/
.gradestable th.user{ height: 40px }
.grade-report-laegrader table#user-grades tr.even td.cell { height: 40px !important; }
.grade-report-laegrader table#user-grades tr.odd td.cell { height: 40px !important; }
.grade-report-grader table#fixed_column tr.odd th, .grade-report-grader table#user-grades tr.odd th { height: 40px; }
.grade-report-grader table#fixed_column tr.even th, .grade-report-grader table#user-grades tr.even th { height: 40px; }
.grade-report-grader table#user-grades td.cell { height: 40px; }
.grade_icons img.iconsmall { width: 14px; height: 14px; }
There would never be an intention on my part to bring back collapsible headers as that was one of the most midunderstood and confounding of the features of the core Moodle gradebook. The ability to easily scroll left-to-right, top-to-bottom without losing student names or column headers IMO negates any purpose for collapsible headers.
Bob,
We have been using the laegrader with much success and really love it. We just had a problem arise that is perplexing me. We are still on 1.9 and have the most recent download of laegrader installed.
1. If a teacher tries to add a grade to a large class it will not take. When you hit the update key is simply goes back to the previous value.
2. If you make a group with a limited number of students, the grade update works.
3. If you remove a number of assignments, the update works.
It is like if the laegrader gradebook it too large, it just ignores any inputs (and updates.) I have a class that if the teacher has a group with more than 15 students, it doesn't work. The same class (working in a sandbox with the testing) I can delete 5 or so assignments and it works again. FYI, the "traditional" one works either way. I originally thought it was a particular student or database value, but it doesn't matter who I remove, as soon as I am below 16 students (and it varies with classes and numbers of assignments) it works.
I was forced to reopen the Moodle gradebook as teachers are putting in grades and getting really frustrated with me when it doesn't take them.
Any thoughts would be really helpful!
Brian Pool
PS While we have themes in the production server, I am forcing the standard Moodle theme on the sandbox.
We have only seen this when certain PHP ini values are set too low or not set at all (approximating the same thing).
- If you're using suhosin to harden your PHP you should set suhosin.post.max_vars four times the columns times the rows of your anticipated largest gradebook.
- If you're using PHP 5.3.9 you need a line like
php_value max_input_vars XXXXX
where XXXXX is a similar calculation as above with suhosin.
That line is commented out on our file with a value of 1000, which I will fix and see if it corrects the error! Thank you in advance!
I am SURE you are right since there are 16 items in the gradebook and it fails over 15. 1000/4/16=15.6 Works with 15 and fails with 16. Is this documented anywhere? I have administered Moodle for 6 years and never set this value! I guess I was always lucky!
Why would this value NOT affect the sucky Moodle gradebook?
Brian
The only documentation is in the forums but when I get done here I'll put it on the laegrader docs page also (link at bottom of page should hit that wiki page on Moodle docs). EDIT: guess they've moved the 1.9 pages so the link at the bottom no longer works -- will adjust. In the mean time, THIS LINK HERE will get you the laegrader docs.
The ??? regular gradebook doesn't submit as many values in its post but you'd run into it there too if your gradebook was a little larger.
Is there a way to force a theme when the laegrader report opens? Some themes really mess up the alignment while others are perfect.
Brian
An excellent idea, if I can figure out how to do it. Probably won't come out until the 2.x re-write by 7/1.
We had problems with the way the styles on LAEgrader was conflicting with the Assignment Module grading in particular. It is because the LAEgrader header requires it to be set to nowrap and min of 110 to align correctly. The default styles.php had
.flexible th {
white-space:nowrap;
min-width: 110px;
}
which we changed to
.grade-report-laegrader th {
white-space:nowrap;
min-width: 110px;
}
Now it works but doesn't affect the rest of the Moodle Mods!
Thanks Brian for the info. I'm pretty close to releasing the 2.x version of the LAE Grader report and have rewritten all of the css, stripping it to a minimum.
I can now offer a Moodle 2.x upgrade to the CLAMP LAE Grader report. You can find it here. From my tests:
- 2.2 and 2.3
- Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer all latest versions
- Both PC and Mac
- Several different themes
The operation of this version if much smoother. All CSS had been rewritten.
There are a few features not yet working (these have been disabled):
- Zerofill of all empty grades in a column
- Copy to Excel button on report
- Tabindex still produces some inconsistencies when you tab from the bottom cell of a column to the next column
Please let me know any problems you encounter, perhaps with other themes (but I'm hoping we've isolated those issues out altogether)
Hi Bob,
Thanks - it's looking good! Just one minor thing I've noticed (in Firefox 3.6; I haven't tested in other browsers yet sorry): the YUI reset CSS adds the following rule:
p, fieldset, table, pre {margin-bottom: 1em;}
which gives a vertical scrollbar that only moves a few pixels (well, 1em) if you only have a few students. If you override it with something along the lines of:
table.laegradestable {margin-bottom:0;}
the scrollbar should only become visible if it's really necessary.
Cheers,
Paul
P.S. I'm testing it in the Decaf theme - and the above is the only issue I've noticed so far. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Paul for your assistance, I'm testing that now.
Bob,
So far it looks good, attached is what I found during my testing.
Thanks
Forrest
Hi Forest,
I noted your information and saw that the mobile phone and id number headers wrap so a little css will handle that. I don't have an IE 8 machine so may need to put off further testing on those issues until our CLAMP Hack-doc June 12th. If point of fact I'm wrapped until after that hack-doc with repository plugin work.
Thanks
Hello Bob,
Unfortunately I have Moodle2.1 I see the LAEgrade Report is compatible with Moodle1.9 to directly Moodle2.2, I tried the 2.2 release with Moodle2.1, but version compatibility message is appearing.
Can you please guide me on this, how can I make it to work with Moodle 2.1
Thank you
What's your version compatibility message?
Hi Bob,
The error message is
Plugin "gradereport_laegrader" (2012050900) could not be installed. It requires a newer version of Moodle (currently you are using 2011070102.01, you need 2011112900).
Thanks
Hi Bob,
The debugger says "Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_extra_user_fields_sql() in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/moodle212/grade/report/laegrader/lib.php on line 384"
Thanks
Yes, you would need to be using at least version 2.2 or greater to use that laegrader. We don't have a version that won't require the get_extra_user_fields_sql() function except that one for 1.9. A nominal PHP programmer could likely fix the problem as its not very deep in the code or prevalent. The verson is easy to fix in the version.php file in the laegrader directory. I've got too much going to work on it right now.
Hi Bob,
Yes, I fixed it by changing version.php and some modifications in lib.php.
Thanks,
Jaswant
Good to hear. The laegrader is not all that complex (except for the Javascript that makes it scroll which isn't my code).
We are using LAE grader now and it is huge improvement over the moodle grader. We are leaving the regular grader on for now so the teachers can use either. A couple of questions if any one could help...
1. Can you set the default to the LAE Grader to open up first
2. Can you make the LAE grader (or moodle grader) always turned on to edit by default so you don't have to turn editing on each time
3. We are using groups for class periods. When I go to LAE grader and then select a group it takes me back to the regular grader and then I have to go back to LAE view every time I switch class periods (groups)
Thanks for all of your work on this!
What version of Moodle are you using? If you're using 1.9 there's a setting called "gradeseditalways" in preferences that you can turn on.
If you leave the grader active for teachers to access then the cascading of choices goes something like this:
- Last report viewed by this user for this course
- Grader report
If you wish to slightly harm a kitten (they'll recover) you can alter the following code in grade/report/index.php:
if (empty($last)) {
if (in_array('grader', $reports)) {
$last = 'grader';
} else if (in_array('user', $reports)) {
$last = 'user';
} else {
$last = reset($reports);
}
}
Change both instances of grader to laegrader
Hello Bob,
I installed the LAE grader report and it sets the overridden to yes for all the modules, is there any bug in the report.
Not sure where but it is setting mdl_grade_grades.overridden = 1in database.
Can you please help me on this.
Thanks
This problem was corrected a couple of months ago. Where'd you get your version you installed and what's the laegrader report version number? What's most recently released on CLAMP's site should have this problem corrected.
Hello Bob,
The LAE version I have is 2012050900, I have downloaded this version from this forum thread only. Is that a older version, if yes please provide us the link of latest version.
Thanks
Current version packaged with the LAE version of Moodle is available through the CLAMP website is
2012091300
you can extract it from the entire download.
I'll update my github.
Current version packaged with the LAE version of Moodle is available through the CLAMP website is
2012091300
you can extract it from the entire download.
I'll update my github.
Hi Bob,
LAE Grader looks great from the demo video I've seen, but we're having problems with it. I copied the files (grade/report/laegrader) from a download of CLAMP into my test site. This appeared to have installed correctly when I logged in. Unfortunately, I get this message: "Please wait while loading the table", but the table never loads. I've attached a screenshot for you as well (I've highlighted the text to make it more readable)
Do you know why this is happening, or what I have done wrong?
For ref, we're running Moodle 2.2.1+ (Build: 20120213) and I copied the files from CLAMP version moodle-2.2.6-LAE2.2.4
Thanks
Barry
Saw this one other time and this was the resolution:
"Thanks Bob for your help. My programmer went through again and discovered the problem. The issue was not in the zip file. The issue is that I was missing this file: /lib/jquery/jquery-1.7.2.min.js. Once I uploaded it, everything went great. Thanks again."
Nice one Bob, spot on advice. LAE Grader is up and running.
Many thanks
Barry
In reply to Bob Puffer
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Emma Richardson -
Bob,
Having this same issue with 2.5. I have jquery-1.9.1.min.js but not 1.7.2.do I have to have that version and if so, where would I find it?
Emma
In reply to Emma Richardson
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Emma Richardson -
Never mind - found it, downloaded it and it worked..
We are reviewing this gradebook. In our installation of it, it does not freeze the student names or the test names when scrolling. Are we missing something? We do not have static checked in the original grade book.
I see we have the same problem as the post above me. We'll try the suggestion and see if it works for us as well.
Let me know, Donna -- forum post or private email whether you got it working or not. Lots of folks using it on lots of versions so I'm sure we can get it working for you.
All LAE Grader users: what's in my github and in the plugins area for Moodle has the jquery library local along with some additional features. Up-to-date documentation is available here.
The most up-to-date versions of LAE Grader are available for Moodle version 2.3 - 2.5+ at my github and the Moodle plugins page. Users are encouraged to upgrade if possible. CLAMP and its LAE version of Moodle should not be used as a source for LAE Grader as their versions are not being kept up-to-date.
In reply to Bob Puffer
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Mark Whitington -
Thanks Bob for such a great tool.
Possibly the way my Moodle 2.5.1 is setup with the "clean" theme, but by the time the students name, email, department and institution are displayed there is little room for the actual assessments.
I am using your horizontal scroll-bar but can only change/see one activity at a time. That is only my last column relates to the activities.
Is there a way to minimize these columns so that more assessments are displayed?
Sorry if you have answered this elsewhere.
Mark
In reply to Mark Whitington
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
You may want to update from plugins or my github. I've narrowed the columns. LAE Grader is constantly being enhanced because so many schools are now using it so its best to constantly check for updates or subscribed to the forum at the plugins db.
In reply to Bob Puffer
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Mark Whitington -
Hi Bob,
Thanks for your assistance...
I think I am using ver: 2013092900 (located number in site >> plugins >> plugins overview)
I have swapped over to the Essentials theme to see if that made any difference ... not that I can see.
Please see image below... is this what you would expect?
In reply to Mark Whitington
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
The extra custom fields are what's keeping you from seeing much. I have completely reworked the css from the ground up which I expect to release in the next couple days so you might keep your eye out for that.
In reply to Mark Whitington
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Brad Fisher -
I really want to use this mod; however, I ran into a nasty little 500 internal server error:
"
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@hughesacademysc.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
Got the error when I was trying to view the LAE Grader Report in an individual course under course administration settings. I am using Moodle 2.5+ version. Any recommendations or troubleshooting tips?
Turn on Debugging for starters.
Tim's right, there's no useful information in what you've provided. I'll be glad to get you up and running as long as I can get some indication what problem you're encountering. As I've said in many past posts, there are A LOT of schools using the LAE Grader report so I'm confident we'll make it work for you.
I do have debugger turned on; unfortunately, I will get the 500 internal server error message even with it on. What information would you like from me to help you try and troubleshoot this bug?
If you set the debug level to developer you'll get a stack trace which is what's needed. You also need to display debug messages to the screen or get them from your system error log.
I had that option turned on along with all associated items checked on the debugging page but still have a visible 500 internal server error. Does Moodle store a log file of errors that I can access, and if so where would the location be?
Unless you've specified a different place for it in your config.php file the log file under Linux would be under /var/log/ and possibly further under apache2
I would consider redownloading the source and reinstalling, making sure you delete all the old first. Make sure you run notifications. Also make sure you don't delete the grader report tree.
In reply to Mark Whitington
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
The new version is available at my github location (bobpuffer) and plugins and allows for multiple student information columns
Did want to make a formal announcement that a new version of LAE Grader is in plugins and at my github with totally redesigned css from the ground up providing narrow columns and rows with compatibility with responsive themes and making proper allowances for multiple student information columns (thanks to Kevin Willarty from Smith). Being there were over 1,700 downloads of the LAE Grader from plugins in September I now understand why I'm hearing from so many schools all over the world.
In reply to Bob Puffer
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Barbara Lawrence -
Hi Bob
I installed the latest version of your plugin today. It looks great, but when I select a group, I get an error message.
[10-Oct-2013 14:39:04 Europe/London] Default exception handler: Error reading from database Debug: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')' at line 7
SELECT gi.id FROM m_grade_items gi, m_modules m, m_course_modules cm
WHERE m.name = gi.itemmodule
AND cm.instance = gi.iteminstance
AND cm.module = m.id
AND gi.courseid = 1922
AND cm.groupingid <> 0
AND cm.groupingid NOT IN()
[array (
)]
Error code: dmlreadexception
* line 426 of \lib\dml\moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
* line 1023 of \lib\dml\mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
* line 101 of \grade\report\laegrader\locallib.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
* line 12 of \grade\report\laegrader\locallib.php: call to grade_tree_local->grade_tree_local()
* line 134 of \grade\report\laegrader\lib.php: call to grade_tree_local_helper()
* line 138 of \grade\report\laegrader\index.php: call to grade_report_laegrader->__construct()
We are using Moodle 2.4.4, on Windows 2008, with Apache 2.2.23, MySQL 5.1,PHP 5.3.22.
I hope you can help with this.
Barbara
In reply to Barbara Lawrence
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
I'll look at this tomorrow (Tuesday) -- I've been offline over the weekend.
In reply to Bob Puffer
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Barbara Lawrence -
Hi Bob
I've discovered that if I turn off Enable group members only in Experimental Settings, then I don't get the error. This is a useful workaround, but I would rather keep it switched on if possible.
The original grader report doesn't seem to mind Enable group members only to be switched on.
Barbara
In reply to Barbara Lawrence
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
I have removed code that was contained in my report that no longer is contained in the grader report apparently an attempt to limit items displayed to only those for that grouping. New version on github and plugins.
In reply to Bob Puffer
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Barbara Lawrence -
Thanks very much Bob, that works fine now.
In reply to Barbara Lawrence
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
Hi Barbara, I don't get this error when selecting a group in a course. This is the case when course settings are visible groups or separate groups. Is there anything odd about your group setup?
I'd like to invite people to submit translations -- the LAE Grader doesn't have very many strings.
Hello Bob,
I was about to post a question about how to change the headers of the columns as I need to put it all in Spanish, and then I saw this post. I can provide the Spanish (Spain) translations if you send me an excel or something with the strings. In the meantime, is it possible for me to edit these directly at the moment so that I can put our LAE Grader on one of our sites into Spanish now?
Regards,
Matthew
Great news. If you want, you can create a subfolder under grade/report/laegrader/lang called es_es. Copy the file gradereport_laegrader.php from grade/report/laegrader/en into your new subfolder and change the values for the strings. That is all you need to provide me and I'll implement it right away. You can contact me directly at puffro01@luther.edu with any questions. I've also posted the file here.
This plug-in looks excellent and would solve some of our problems. We are in Moodle 2.3 and we require the Moodle gradebook for all courses. The final course grade is sent from Moodle to Banner. Do you know of any issues with the LAE Grader Report that would interfere with the submission of the final grade to Banner?
Thank you - Nancy K.
I'm sorry for being so late in reply, have been away on business. The version that is in plugins should have no problem sending grades to Banner/ Datatel though that functionality is not in the report at this time. The accuracy of the calculations has been verified by the 500+ schools using it at this time.
Hi Bob,
I've just installed the LAE Grader report (build 2014011600) onto my test Moodle server (Moodle 2.5.3+ (Build: 20131213)), (Ubuntu server 13.10, apache 2.4.6, php 5.5.3-1ubuntu2.1)
and when the report displays it shows this error above the report.
At a cursory inspection the report seems to function ok, there is just the numerous notices above it.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
The notice seems to be independent of the current theme. The same error was coming up before the upgrade and I was hopeful the upgrade would provide the solution.
I'm not seeing those notices. You must have an interesting setup, perhaps all categories no items? I'll push a newer version that will take into account this unlikely situation.
What organization are you with?
These errors are showing on my development server at home - so it wasn't going into production with those displaying.
Nothing special about the setup, a basic Ubuntu 13.10 server install with apache, php and postgres. The only difference from this to my production server at school is that I have built a new server at home with Ubuntu 13.10 which installs the newer apache and php versions.
At my school I have an Ubuntu 12.04 lts server with a minimal desktop installed so that we can "cheat a little"- not being Linux guru's.
Your update, that I just installed, fixed the problem. Many thanks.
Next - how do I get more than 4 students (rows) to show at one time? That's all that comes up.
In the settings for the LAE Grader report the variable "grade_report_studentsperpage" is set to 100, so I'm not sure what is happening here.
Thanks in advance.
Craig.
What you're dealing with is not a number of students per page because you don't have any page drop down in the upper-left. You need to expand the number of pixels high the scrolling window is, a setting for the LAE Grader.
What school are you with? I like to keep track of who's using the LAE Grader.
I'm at Albion Park High School, NSW, Australia.
I set the number of pixels high to 900. No change with the end result, although as the page loads all students are shown (~30) then the last thing that happens is the number of students is reduced to 5 (was 4 before). When I set it to 300px high I get the same result.
I've tried standard, decaf & krystle themes with the same result.
Thanks,
Craig.
I'll give it a look this morning. Thanks Craig for the info.
I can't get this to fail using the standard theme -- I can raise or lower the height on the viewable window as expected. What version of Moodle are you on? I am using Chrome and Firefox on Moodle version 2013111800.07. Running on Ubuntu 12.04.
I'm on 20140131 Moodle 2.5.4+
viewing the site on my android tablet using the android internet browser or chrome. The issue is independent of theme.
I'm sorry, Craig, it has never been a consideration to create a grade report with editing capabilities for a mobile platform as I never believed anyone would want to use it in that way. Somethings lend themselves to mobile but not everything. Try it on a laptop and see if the results prevail.
Just upgraded the laegrader report to 2014021500 and the resizing bug on the scrollable section seems ok now.
Many thanks,
Craig.
Great, there's been some contributions of additional styles and code that likely resolved the issue.
I've pushed to my github and plugins.
In reply to Bob Puffer
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Matthew Sauvage -
Hi Bob,
I have installed your LAE grader on a second site (v. 2.6.1+) and am having trouble with the height of the scrollable window - it stays the same small size despite the settings changes I make. I have changed the parameter in Grades - Report Settings - LAE Grader Report to 900 pixels and I have also changed that same setting in the course to 900 but the window does not show any bigger.
Enlarging the scrollable window works fine in another site where I have installed it (v. 2.5.4+). What am I missing?
Thanks,
Matthew
In reply to Matthew Sauvage
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Bob Puffer -
Some information:
- LAE Grader version?
- OS of installation?
- Debug turned on and showing messages to the screen do you get anything upon saving the settings?
- What organization are you with?
thanks
In reply to Matthew Sauvage
Re: CLAMP LAEgrader Report with Frozen Headers and Names
by Ilya Zhuykov -
Hello, everyone.
We use this plugin (release 2014020800) on Moodle 2.6.1+, and also have this bug.
If you set height value in "My report preferences" in course, plugin will use value from 'mdl_user_preferences' table and everything will work fine.
But if you change the parameter in Grades - Report Settings - LAE Grader Report, plugin will use static value:
File: index.php (line 192)
$scrolling = $scrolling == null ? 380 : 300 + ($scrolling * 40);
We use value from global param $CFG->grade_report_laegrader_reportheight:
$scrolling = $scrolling == null ? 300 + ($CFG->grade_report_laegrader_reportheight * 40) : 300 + ($scrolling * 40);
Thank you.
Hello, Bob!
Your plugin is good! We use this plugin (release 2014020800) on Moodle 2.6.1+ and find some small errors:
1). With turned on the debugging messages, we have this:
get_related_contexts_string() is deprecated, please use $context->get_parent_context_ids(true) instead.
- line 4521 of \lib\deprecatedlib.php: call to debugging()
- line 1111 of \grade\report\laegrader\lib.php: call to get_related_contexts_string()
- line 506 of \grade\report\laegrader\lib.php: call to grade_report_laegrader->get_right_avg_row()
- line 830 of \grade\report\laegrader\lib.php: call to grade_report_laegrader->get_right_rows()
- line 185 of \grade\report\laegrader\index.php: call to grade_report_laegrader->get_grade_table()
get_related_contexts_string() is deprecated, please use $context->get_parent_context_ids(true) instead.
- line 4521 of \lib\deprecatedlib.php: call to debugging()
- line 1140 of \grade\report\laegrader\lib.php: call to get_related_contexts_string()
- line 506 of \grade\report\laegrader\lib.php: call to grade_report_laegrader->get_right_avg_row()
- line 830 of \grade\report\laegrader\lib.php: call to grade_report_laegrader->get_right_rows()
- line 185 of \grade\report\laegrader\index.php: call to grade_report_laegrader->get_grade_table()
We use the next solution: in lib.php (line 1111) and lib.php (line 1140) we replace deprecated functions from:
AND ra.contextid " . get_related_contexts_string($this->context)
to new functions:
AND ra.contextid IN (". implode(",", $this->context->get_parent_context_ids(true)) .")
2). Also, in lib.php (line 121), plugin use constant for default width of columns and NOT using this parameter value which you set in Grades - Report Settings - LAE Grader Report.
Current version code:
$this->columnwidth = $this->columnwidth == null ? 25 : 25 + ($this->columnwidth * 5);
And our solution, which use value from global param $CFG->grade_report_laegrader_columnwidth:
$this->columnwidth = $this->columnwidth == null ? 25 + ($CFG->grade_report_laegrader_columnwidth * 5) : 25 + ($this->columnwidth * 5);
3). Don't display title, when you hover on changedisplay button (in code no double quotes before title).
Current version code (locallib.php (line 462)):
$actiontext = '<img alt="' . $type . ' title="' . $strchangedisplay . '" src="' . $CFG->wwwroot . '/grade/report/laegrader/images/changedisplay.png" />';
And our solution:
$actiontext = '<img alt="' . $type . '" title="' . $strchangedisplay . '" src="' . $CFG->wwwroot . '/grade/report/laegrader/images/changedisplay.png" />';
4). In "My report preferences" we also have notices:
get_context_instance() is deprecated, please use context_xxxx::instance() instead.
- line 4020 of \lib\deprecatedlib.php: call to debugging()
- line 36 of \grade\report\laegrader\preferences.php: call to get_context_instance()
get_context_instance() is deprecated, please use context_xxxx::instance() instead.
- line 4020 of \lib\deprecatedlib.php: call to debugging()
- line 37 of \grade\report\laegrader\preferences.php: call to get_context_instance()
get_context_instance() is deprecated, please use context_xxxx::instance() instead.
- line 4020 of \lib\deprecatedlib.php: call to debugging()
- line 46 of \grade\report\laegrader\preferences_form.php: call to get_context_instance()
- line 191 of \lib\formslib.php: call to laegrader_report_preferences_form->definition()
- line 41 of \grade\report\laegrader\preferences.php: call to moodleform->moodleform()
get_context_instance() is deprecated, please use context_xxxx::instance() instead.
- line 4020 of \lib\deprecatedlib.php: call to debugging()
- line 47 of \grade\report\laegrader\preferences_form.php: call to get_context_instance()
- line 191 of \lib\formslib.php: call to laegrader_report_preferences_form->definition()
- line 41 of \grade\report\laegrader\preferences.php: call to moodleform->moodleform()
We replace deprecated functions in preferences.php (line 36) and in preferences_form.php (line 46) from:
$context = get_context_instance(CONTEXT_COURSE, $course->id);
$systemcontext = get_context_instance(CONTEXT_SYSTEM);
to
$context = context_course::instance($course->id);
$systemcontext = context_system::instance();
5). And finally, trouble with styles. In Opera 12, Firefox 27, Chrome 31.0.1650.63, we can see vertical line in cells of rows with even style:
We fix this problem by adding some css in styles.css (like code for odd rows at line 302):
.laegradestable tr.even td.cell,
.laegradestable tr.even th.cell {
background-color:#fafafa;
white-space:nowrap;
}
We test it on Standart and Aardvark 2.6 themes.
Thank you.
Tremendously helpful, thank you. I've implemented your changes and pushed to my github as well as plugins.
What organization/ school are you with?
Volga State University of Technology, Yoshkar-Ola, the Mari El Republic, Russia.
Thanks, have you done a translation you'd like to share?
Yes, of course.
And we have some questions.
In locallib.php (line 158) in the current version you use non-translated params for course and categories totals:
switch ($element['type']) {
case 'courseitem':
$header .= 'COURSE TOTAL';
break;
case 'categoryitem':
$header .= 'CATEGORY TOTAL';
default:
$header .= $catname;
}
May be, it will be better to use get_string function?
switch ($element['type']) {
case 'courseitem':
$header .= get_string('coursetotal', 'gradereport_laegrader');
break;
case 'categoryitem':
$header .= get_string('categorytotal', 'gradereport_laegrader');
default:
$header .= $catname;
}
Also, in lib.php (line 319) the same situation:
Current version code:
$output = '<div class="inlinebutton" title="Download contents of gradebook to csv suitable for Excel or Google">';
With using get_string function:
$output = '<div class="inlinebutton" title="' . get_string('copytoexcel', 'gradereport_laegrader') . '">';
Then in lang/en/gradereport_laegrader.php file, we need to add 3 new rows:
$string['coursetotal'] = 'COURSE TOTAL'; $string['categorytotal'] = 'CATEGORY TOTAL'; $string['copytoexcel'] = 'Download contents of gradebook to csv suitable for Excel or Google';
In lang/he/gradereport_laegrader.php some rows are missed (without translating, sorry):
$string['changedisplay'] = 'Toggle display of this item between Percent, Real, Letter';
$string['clearoverrides'] = 'Clear all overridden conditions in this column';
$string['laegrader_columnwidth'] = 'Number of characters wide before grade titles wrap'; $string['laegrader_extrafields'] = 'Show extra user fields'; $string['laegrader_extrafields_help'] = 'Show extra user fields (such as user email or user idnumber -- as set by a site administrator in user policies) in the grader report'; $string['laegrader_reportheight'] = 'Height (in pixels) of scrollable portion of LAE grader report'; $string['laegrader:view'] = 'View the LAE grader report';
$string['showclearoverrides'] = 'Show icon that allows clearing overridden conditions in a column';
$string['copytoexcel'] = 'Download contents of gradebook to csv suitable for Excel or Google';
Thank you.
P.S. The file with russian translation (first version) is attached.
Thanks again, you're been very helpful. Changes have been pushed to github and plugins. Collaboration is so good, no one person should have to handle all this.
Yes. Thank you for quick response.
I had to kill the background color of this as it overwrote the background for overridden cells.
Thanks for fix.
But now, we have vertical line in cells again...
We need to add more css! Insert new css after the code, in which you kill background-color:
.laegradestable tr.even td.overridden {background-color:#F3E4C0;}
.laegradestable tr.even td.ajaxoverridden {background-color:#FFE3A0;}
Return the row with background-color, and all will be work perfectly: no vertical line in cells and background of overriden cells not overwritten!
Thank you.
Got this working and pushed. Thanks for the help.
Hello, Bob.
We have one more question.
In file preferences_form.php (line 50), why do you use this value
$checkbox_default = 'checkbox';
and don't use value like in standart grader (/grade/report/grader/preferences_form.php)?
// $checkbox_default = array(GRADE_REPORT_PREFERENCE_DEFAULT => '*default*', 0 => get_string('no'), 1 => get_string('yes'));
Thank you.
I reverted though it shouldn't make any difference since there are no checkboxes on either the Grader or LAE Grader
Thank you for quick response.
We asked this question, because some settings don't saves (such as grade_report_showclearoverrides), when we use
$checkbox_default = 'checkbox';
But now all work correctly (plugin release 2014021500).
Thank you again.
We love the LAE grader report! We are using groups more and more, which leads to a problem when using the report. We have Instructional Assistants that are members of several groups in a single course and are responsible for tracking the progress of all students in those groups. But on the LAE Grader, they can only see one group at a time. Would it be possible to add an "All Groups" selector from the Groups drop-down list, which would allow an Instructional Assistant (or other role with the proper permissions to view the grader) to see the Grader Report for all of the groups of which they are a member?
Does anyone else have that need?
Kimber
Hi Kimber, I appreciate your appreciation. Happily (perhaps sadly, for you) I can say work on the LAE Grader report has ended because its functionality is largely represented in the 2.8 gradebook.
When I have groups set to 'Visible groups' I can choose 'All participants' from the LAE Grader groups dropdown. This may not be compatible with how your course roles are set however.
First of all, thanks for this mod. The gradebook report included with Moodle is really cumbersome and frankly unusable for a K-12 school system. We have used LAEgrader for a LONG time and are just now looking to upgrade to Moodle Ver 3.0.
Our issue. We modified the 1.9 version to not show or calculate hidden items. It makea the gradebook more manageable as we only show the current quarter (and some teachers have far more grades than others in the course of a single quarter.) That being said, the coding in the existing module is far different than that of the 1.9 one.
Has anyone done a mod like this to hide all hidden items and not make them calculate into the grades? I would rather have somewhere to start if possible. If not, is there an easy section that will make it simply overlook the entire grade item and all associated grades.
From the onset of online grading we felt it was important to be transparent with students and parents. The idea of having a hidden grade count is obviously contrary to that. We still want to obviously be able to hide items until they are part of the course, and we only want the current quarter visible.
Any help would be appreciated!
Brian Pool