Thanks for enhancements to the gradebook. My life now: Imagine me going through numbers of students and giving zeros and retries to maybe 50 assignments at a time -think of how long that takes when I have to go into the assignment TWICE to do EACH ONE! lol! Help would be appreciated! As you can see, that is a lot of clicks to just give a zero with a retry!!! I would love to either have a quick edit function OR be able to go into the assignment once and click a zero and retry at the same time!! That would take half the time. Then I have to save that zero and click back into the assignment a second time and push "retry". Right now, I have to click into an assignment square and open the assignment. Or, at least, I would like to be able to enter a zero and a retry at the same time in the regular gradebook. I also would really like to have a way to give retries from the quick edit. When you work everyday with these gradebooks, it is amazing how something small like that can make it a lot easier to track information. I still really miss the alternating colored horizontal rows. It does help to be able to change the column width to narrower. Thank you! These are very welcome changes. Not every teacher at our school is writing to you in this Discussion, but I can assure you that they are all chatting with each other about how much they dislike the new gradebook. That would be a very much appreciated upgrade! Thanks for all you do, and please consider making a change on this current gradebook. I would also like to add that the only change I really needed on the previous gradebook was an easy way to give "retries" in quick edit. This is not just a complaint because I don't like the way it looks or because it is different My complaint is that it is much harder to use as a teacher and slows down my efficiency. I would plead for you to return the old layout as soon as possible. Honestly, the current version makes my work day longer, harder, and more confusing whereas before it was really a very efficient and usable product. I would ask that you go back to the format of the previous gradebook with alternating colors, less white space, more items fitting on a page, as well as the ability to choose columns like start date or percentage completed that can stay un-moved with the student name when you scroll to the right and look at assignments. I agree that the "updated" gradebook is definitely a big step backwards on usability. I know that progress must be made frequently, but would it be possible to restore the old gradebook until the new one can be fixed? This makes it more difficult to follow the lines for a single student or even track the assignments. The new system, unfortunately, sports a LOT of empty white space. The old book had alternating colors and minimal blank space. While the most important thing is being able to access the gradebook, the aesthetics of the new gradebook could also use a lot of help. The new gradebook does not function at all from mobile devices. I tried various browsers to see if that was the issue, but it doesn't even work in Chrome. However, when using my iPad, I cannot scroll at all. While frustrating, I am at least able to see the grades. This makes it difficult to follow one line of grades for a student if their name is at the bottom of the list. While on a PC, I can scroll in the gradebook, but if I try to scroll sideways after scrolling down, it will automatically jump to the top. The new gradebook format has several issues that are making it very difficult or impossible to use.
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