Martin Dougiamas

The grade_item contains all the info about that grade column. Maxgrade, mingrade, pass grade etc etc etc (there's a lot of stuff).

You cuold use grade_get_grade_items() just to get all these for a course in one step.

I've just asked Nicolas to implement all these now. MDL-9506

Make sure you go to the latest 1.8.3+ first.

Groups in general was a bit unstable in early 1.8 versions (some new code for Groupings had to be backed out).

Most of the interface changes are for accessibility since three-pane interface didn't work well for large sites or those on screen-readers etc. If this doesn't matter to ro you then it might be possible for someone to patch the old interface in (but the changes are not minor).

Groupings returns strongly in Moodle 1.9 with some cool new features like being able to assign particular activities/resources to particular groups.

Wow, nice one, Ralf!

I can't set you up with CVS access without seeing the code and your account details.

We're just moving CVS, so the account could take a while, but the code would be useful to see right away.

I can't imagine any reason why it wouldn't. The sort of GUI changes in Leopard don't really affect the Unix underneath.