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Key: MDL-10301
Type: Bug Bug
Status: Closed Closed
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: Major Major
Assignee: Nicolas Connault
Reporter: Pablo López
Votes: 1
Watchers: 4
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Students receive a copy of their grades in an activity even "show grades to students" is OFF

Created: 29/Jun/07 08:08 PM   Updated: 14/Oct/08 03:12 PM
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Component/s: Assignment, Course, Gradebook
Affects Version/s: 1.7
Fix Version/s: 1.9.3

File Attachments: 1. Text File show_grades.patch (2 kB)


Participants: Dongsheng Cai, Martin Dougiamas, Nicolas Connault, Pablo López, Petr Skoda and Steve Bond
Security Level: None
QA Assignee: Dongsheng Cai
Resolved date: 08/Oct/08
Affected Branches: MOODLE_17_STABLE
Fixed Branches: MOODLE_19_STABLE


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This issue has been reported as an "improvement" in MDL-6591 but I think it's a really serious (functional) bug and be treated with great priority.

The question of notifying grades by email can be discussed and considered an improvement, but I think it just doesn't make sense that students automatically get a copy of their obtained grade in an assignment if you've said NO to "show grades to students" in the course configuration.

It's happened to me and other teachers as I've seen in the forum and I think this is still happening in Moodle. It is a really, really big annoyance, especially because I don't know if this feature is remarked in the documentation.

Not being a technical bug, it is a serious behavior bug that can lead to really undesirable situations between teachers and students. Isn't it?




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Petr Skoda added a comment - 19/Dec/07 02:26 AM
In 1.9 workaround is to use manual grading item and not grade directly in activity.
The activities were not fully rewritten yet, expect some more changes and improvements in 2.0.

Steve Bond added a comment - 02/Apr/08 08:56 PM
OK, so we can wait till 2.0 for improved functionality on this front, but there is still a problem in 1.9. The "Show grades" setting in course settings is highly misleading - it simply does not do what it claims to do.

I suggest it just need to be relabelled - call the setting "Show gradebook to students", and rewrite the help page to clarify what will be hidden and what will remain visible.

I will do this for our installation and post the patch here.


Steve Bond added a comment - 02/Apr/08 09:16 PM
Here's the patch (for en_utf8 only).

Steve Bond added a comment - 02/Apr/08 09:17 PM
Clarification: patch attached above is for Moodle 1.9

Martin Dougiamas added a comment - 02/Oct/08 09:22 AM
Nicolas can you check out this patch? Does it make sense?

Nicolas Connault added a comment - 08/Oct/08 05:23 PM
Patch applied

Dongsheng Cai added a comment - 14/Oct/08 03:11 PM
Thanks all, closing