Emma Richardson

Yes, but the category is not restored, forcing the teacher to have to modify each assignment which kinda defeats the point of importing them!

Makes sense - I actually posted it in tracker but most probably under the wrong section.

It looks like everyone else has done the job of answering your question for me. It is in fact fairly common for teachers to assign assignments that carry a pass/fail grade or that students just get 100% for.
As to your question about creating grade items for more than one class at a time - this is also very common. If you have, for example, a Spanish teacher that teaches four classes of Spanish I, each time she creates an assignment, right now in moodle, she has to recreate the same assignment four times or import it and then manually go in an assign the category (as those don't appear to import). It would be much easier if she could just select which classes she wants the assignment to be added to when she creates it. This is a feature found in the majority of gradebooks that I have seen.

This gradebook looks really promising - two requests that I have had from teachers that could be added??

The ability to autofill all grades with the same score.

Also, the ability to create a grade item/assignment for more than one class at one time.

I know that you can presently import but it would be much easier if you could just select other sections and create the item in multiple sections at once.

I see that you can exceed the total points for the item which is great.

Emma

When I import assignments from one class to another, the categories do not carry across. I have the categories set up the same in the both courses, after discovering that if they were not identical, a blank non-existent assignment link was created along with the actual assignment.
Is there anyway to bring assignments from one course to another and retain the category?