[Using Sakai] Assignments: revert to "old style" due-date entry?

[Norman Danner]

Short version:  is there a way to make Assignments in Sakai 10 revert 
back to the "old style" of date entries via menus?

Long version:  I recently upgraded to Sakai 10, and see that Assignments 
now has a clever calendar widget for entering the due date (and open 
date, etc.).  But in fact, I find it *really* annoying; it takes twice 
as long to enter the various dates as before, when I could type just 
about everything.  Even worse, the sliders for setting the time don't 
release if you happen to drag outside the widget, as is usually the case 
for an 11:55pm due-time.

Thanks!

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Norman Danner - ndanner at wesleyan.edu - http://ndanner.web.wesleyan.edu
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - Wesleyan University