[Building Sakai] Getting sensible data out of the gradebook API

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi John,

Sounds good, please send the details. I am using GB2 as one front end (in conjunction with GB1), but at present only using the GB1 services.

cheers,
Steve


On 13/04/2012, at 2:35 PM, John Bush wrote:

> Yes this has been a general annoyance for a long time, we've tried all
> sorts of things, even copying code to deal with it.
> 
> If you are using gradebook2, which doesn't expose this stuff in its
> java services either, I have found a work around which is to call the
> gb2 rest services.  Because you can get anything that way.  This is
> how we are doing our gradebook exports now, gb2 rest services and
> sakai soap services, and you can do most thing you need that way.
> 
> It involves a little trickery but works great if you use gb2 and want
> more details I can point you to another thread on that list with
> details.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Steve Swinsburg
> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Course grade is fine, that returns the letter.
>> 
>> Those methods you list are what I am doing at the moment, it's quite tedious
>> though.
>> 
>> I need to manually get all 'assignments' for each site (where an assignment
>> could be an assignment from Assignments tool, a Quiz from Samigo, another
>> gradeable object from another app, or a manually created one - could be
>> named better), tally up the total points for each, then figure out
>> percentages etc. It would be nice if there was an API method for that!
>> 
>> cheers.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 13/04/2012, at 1:21 PM, Matthew Jones wrote:
>> 
>> In GradebookService?
>> http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/edu-services/1.1.3/apidocs/org/sakaiproject/service/gradebook/shared/GradebookService.html
>> 
>> getCalculatedCourseGrade(gid)
>> getAssignment(gid,aid).getPoints ?
>> 
>> http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/edu-services/1.1.3/apidocs/org/sakaiproject/service/gradebook/shared/Assignment.html
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Steve Swinsburg
>> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm having a bit of difficulty getting sensible data out of the grade book
>>> API.
>>> 
>>> Basically, I want to be able to get the total points for each student, as
>>> well as their percentage. I can get the course grade (A, B, F etc) and
>>> overridden course grade no problems, but any other data I get out does not
>>> match what is in the UI.
>>> 
>>> All data I want to export is in the attached screenshot (ignore the
>>> names).
>>> 
>>> I do not see methods in the GradeboookService API to get the Points or the
>>> Percentage attached to a course grade. Is this possible?
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> Steve
>>> 
>>> API docs for 2.8:
>>> http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/edu-services/1.1.3/apidocs/index.html
>>> 
>>> 
>>> <Screen Shot 2012-04-13 at 12.50.34 PM.png>
>>> 
>>> 
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