Thanks Louise. That does help.  

I will wrestle one of the IT support guys to the ground and make them change the CSS. It does really bug me 

Isn't there any option that you can do the same thing from the user interface of moodle??

I am using moodle 2.5.1.

Regards,

Andreas

Hi Louise

This worked perfectly - thank you!

Alex

Using this code to css

.gradingtable tr th.header.c8 {
display: none;
}
.gradingtable tr td.cell.c8 {
display: none;
}

will hide the uploaded files column from grading table.

What about if we would like to show this column but without link so files not be downloadable? Is there such a css rule?

Is there any way to do so (show files but not be able for someone to downlaod)..?

Thank you in advance!

Regards,

Andreas

Louise, your code was VERY helpful.  Thank you for that.

I used what I learned from you to hide the city/town and country columns from the Participants list, because they aren't really useful for us and we need the horizontal space.  Unfortunately the particpants list uses 'generaltable' (see code) which is used elsewhere in Moodle.  Not a shock, considering the use of the word 'general.'  I discovered the next day that my CSS change removed the "restore" column when trying to restore a course.  Argh!   

Regardless, I learned something really useful from you, and maybe someone will read this and come up with a brilliant solution to my problem.

WARNING: This code is for explanation only. Don't use it, or you'll have unexpected results!

/* test to hide the city-town column from the participants list */

.generaltable tr th.header.c4 {

display: none;

}

/* this hides the city-town column */

.generaltable tr td.cell.c4 {

display: none;

}

/*test to hide the country column from the participants list */

.generaltable tr th.header.c5 {

display: none;

}

/* this hides the country column */

.generaltable tr td.cell.c5 {

display: none;

}

To make this page more user friendly for our teaching staff and make a better use of the screen space, we did a bit of customisation of our Moodle install. This, of course, required changes to Moodle code.

I've included a screenshot of Assignment Grading page from a test course to illustrate the changes we made.
(*All user details are fictional)

Here is a list of changes we did:

• Reordered the columns
• User name, picture and ID number are combined into a single column
• Grade column (Mark in our case) displays a combined set of grading options. So grading options, grade input and quick feedback textarea are all displayed together in a single column.
• User submissions column displays all the submissions from the students. So File submissions, online text and comments are all displayed together in a single column.
• Grader feedback (marker feedback) column displays the feedback files and feedback comments in a single column as well.
• Preview option for online text and feedback comments opens in a popup instead of moving to a new page.
• Grade input box does client-side validation to check that marks are numeric, and alerts user when invalid marks are entered.

These changes have greatly improved the grading experience for our teachers and helps reduce input errors. The biggest plus point is that there is usually no need for them to do a horizontal scroll now. All the necessary details required while marking is always displayed on-screen.

I hope that our customisations of the Assignment Grading page can give others some ideas on how to improve the Assignment grading page for their users as well. I'm happy to share our code with others who also like to get their hand dirty writing code

Thanks,
RT

I now have my own Moodle running (2.8.1)  with Magazine theme and would like to take a stab at this.  My first ambition is to make the e-mail column hidden by default.  Then look at rearranging columns. I hear that modifying by CSS is not all that reliable but I cannot figure out where to look for the original code.  

Someone please tell me where to go.

BTW: The code at the top of this thread works for 2.8.1.