[gradebook2-dev] Gradebook, object names, case-sensitivity

[Jon Gorrono]

I didn't get any bites on this in OAE-DEV....

So, I'll float it here for discussion... suggestions for ways to move
forward appreciated.

We (UCD) are rSmart clients and I think they have vendor dropped
edu-services, maintaining some changes... so *we* may end up with that
as *our* final form of the proposal, but it would prob be better if we
had a more general approach ruled out first....

A short intro to the problem: external tools can add gb assignment in
upper or lower case and they are treated as separate.. gb2 is
case-insensitive... so, trying to delete one of two or more items that
differ by case only is not currently possible in gb2... it is just
confused.

This is the last case found outstanding for GRBK-1204


>Greetings OAE/kernel warriors :)
>
>There was some discussion, some time ago, about case-sensitivity in
>gradebook (edu-services gradebook, now) with a minor movement to make
>the items there case-insensitive (they are now case-sensitive: "essay"
>does not imply "Essay")
>
>Our user community seems to almost unanimously assume that have the
>label "Essay", as in the example, should be treated as identical to
>"essay".. this is, no doubt, in no small part due to Gradebook2's
>being initial designed with that assumption (good or bad)  :)

>Gradebook2 plays the role of an improving-with-time gatekeeper wrt
>names of items that originate in it's UI... but items created in other
>tools that interface directly with edu-services pose an interesting
>challenge to gb2... one we would like to avoid :)
>
>If there is still 1) support for the change to edu-services to ignore
>case in comparisons and 2) a reasonable way that can be found to move
>forward with reconciling/merging existing items that would then be
>considered duplicates, we would be glad to do any actual work that
>might entail.




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