Gradebook

This issue has been discussed in the forum before, with various posts of fixes.

> It is to provide support for text based scales.

Yes, but that is a poor justification--make the export do the "wrong thing" for the majority of folks who use numeric scores for the majority of their assignments, just to support a feature that, while useful, is used much less often.

It is easy to check the grade value using is_numeric() to see if it is a number, and write the score as a string value if it is textual, or as a numeric value if it is numeric. Or am I missing something?

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Edit: didn't this change get integrated into the current gradebook code already? It looks like the is_numeric() test is already in place in the latest stable release, but I could be wrong ...