You can tell from the issue number that we have been aware of this for a long time. We just were not aware of how vehement people would be about losing this feature.
The difficulty is how to implement it in the UI.
Because there are 'add questions here' buttons within the quiz layout, and each of those has their own HTML form, we can no longer wrap a HTML form around the whole thing, and so there is no easy way to get all the grades submitted at once.
I suppose the options are:
1. Implement this functionality, but only on the order and paging tab. (That is technically easy, but there is an issue with how much horizontal space there is on that page.)
2. Implement this using
JavaScript, which is not so hard, but then it would only work with JavaScript on (not such a big deal these days.)
3. Change it, so that all the separate add question buttons and grade boxes are in one big form. This is probably techically the best solution, but would require a certain amount of re-work of the HTML for the page and the form processing code.
In anyone has any thoughts, please suggest them here. I'll deal with this when I get back from holiday.
I suppose many teachers, especially language teachers, do NOT want to upgrade their Moodle to 2.0 only for this reason. I hope it will be fixed before the 2.0 release.
