[Using Sakai] duplicated course - lose categories for assignments...

[Gregory Guthrie]

        "The "from assignments" means it's an item that is from the Assignments tool and not which category it was placed in. "
Yes; my point was just that the duplication tool knew that the item had been in that category, but decided not to maintain the classification.

I noticed this loss of categories on the assignments and looked in the database and found that all the category fields (GB_Gradeable_Object_T: Category_ID) were set on the original and NULL on the duplicate. So I had to through and do an assign to category for each and all was well, just a lot of clicking around to do it.

I'm not sure what you mean about the GB category settings, mine were a clone of the original - "Categories and weighting". I probably could do and export/import, but had expected the duplicate process to do this all right itself.

Thanks.

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From: Bryan Holladay [mailto:holladay at longsight.com]

I believe these are two different things you are looking at.  The "from assignments" means it's an item that is from the Assignments tool and not which category it was placed in.  As for the categories coming over in the import, I haven't tried it, but I bet it has to do with the settings of the gradebook you are importing into.  Try setting the GB settings in the new GB to be a category gradebook then import.  If this works, then it sounds like we need to determine if importing should modify the existing GB's settings or not.  (usually only data structures come over and no settings or data).

-Bryan
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu<mailto:guthrie at mum.edu>> wrote:
It seems like a bug to me that in a duplicated course, all gradable objects lose their categories in the gradebook.
 Yet the Gradebook items page shows that the "Grade Editor" knows this (it says "From Assignments"), implying that it was a conscious decision? Also it gets this wrong, because some of them came from other categories (Exams, Project, ...) but all say the same thing "From Assignments".
 Is this the intended behavior? Is there any override to avoid this loss, and need to then re-assign them all?
These categories are a part of the course structure, not the transient content, and by the description of duplicate'ing it seems like they should be preserved.

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