Moodle

Consistency issue with the terms aggregation coefficient and item weight

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 1.9.2
  • Fix Version/s: 1.9.5
  • Component/s: Documentation, Gradebook
  • Labels:
    None
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE
  • Fixed Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE

Description

The settings aggregation coefficient and item weight both have the same help file aggregationcoefweight.html and it seems they mean the same thing.

Let's be consistent and choose either the term "aggregation coefficient" or "item weight".

Issue Links

This issue has a non-specific relationship to:
MDL-16050 Missing aggregationcoef.html help file Minor Closed
This issue has been marked as being related by:
MDL-16913 New "Edit categories and items" page Critical Closed

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Helen Foster added a comment -

There is an aggregation coefficient setting for subcategories in a category with "Sum of grades" aggregation, whereas there is an item weight setting for subcategories in a category with "Weighted mean of grades" aggregation. Both settings have the same help file.

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Helen Foster added a comment - There is an aggregation coefficient setting for subcategories in a category with "Sum of grades" aggregation, whereas there is an item weight setting for subcategories in a category with "Weighted mean of grades" aggregation. Both settings have the same help file.
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Nicolas Connault added a comment -

I will fix the link to the help file, and make it clear that "Aggregation coefficient" is an umbrella term for both "Item weight" and "Extra credit".

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Nicolas Connault added a comment - I will fix the link to the help file, and make it clear that "Aggregation coefficient" is an umbrella term for both "Item weight" and "Extra credit".
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Helen Foster added a comment -

Nicolas, thanks for your comment, though I'm even more confused now!

Looking forward to this issue being resolved

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Helen Foster added a comment - Nicolas, thanks for your comment, though I'm even more confused now! Looking forward to this issue being resolved
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Nicolas Connault added a comment -

I think this one is now resolved.

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Nicolas Connault added a comment - I think this one is now resolved.
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Sam Hemelryk added a comment -

Thanks

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Sam Hemelryk added a comment - Thanks
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David Mudrak added a comment -

Just for the record: I just spent significant amount of time studying the aggregation code and I am going to get rid of the term "Aggregation coefficient" completely. There is no "umbrella" from the user's point of view, it is just how "aggregationcoef" item's attribute is (ab)used for both item weight (in case of GRADE_AGGREGATE_WEIGHTED_MEAN) or as a extra credit to add (in case of GRADE_AGGREGATE_WEIGHTED_MEAN2) or as an extra credit to multiply with (in GRADE_AGGREGATE_EXTRACREDIT_MEAN).

So

  • for 'Sum of grades' and 'Simple weighted mean', there will be a checkbox labelled 'Extra credit' (meaning 'Act as extra credit - yes/no') with its own help
  • for the obsolete 'Mean of grades (with extra credits)', there will be a input field 'Extra credit weight' with its own help (because the value represents both yes/no and the weight)
  • for 'Weighted mean', there will be input field 'Item weight' with its own help
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David Mudrak added a comment - Just for the record: I just spent significant amount of time studying the aggregation code and I am going to get rid of the term "Aggregation coefficient" completely. There is no "umbrella" from the user's point of view, it is just how "aggregationcoef" item's attribute is (ab)used for both item weight (in case of GRADE_AGGREGATE_WEIGHTED_MEAN) or as a extra credit to add (in case of GRADE_AGGREGATE_WEIGHTED_MEAN2) or as an extra credit to multiply with (in GRADE_AGGREGATE_EXTRACREDIT_MEAN). So
  • for 'Sum of grades' and 'Simple weighted mean', there will be a checkbox labelled 'Extra credit' (meaning 'Act as extra credit - yes/no') with its own help
  • for the obsolete 'Mean of grades (with extra credits)', there will be a input field 'Extra credit weight' with its own help (because the value represents both yes/no and the weight)
  • for 'Weighted mean', there will be input field 'Item weight' with its own help
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David Mudrak added a comment -

OK, after another significant amount of time, I realized that we need the umbrella term "Aggregation coefficient" in situations when a category aggregates subcategories with both types of extracredit.

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David Mudrak added a comment - OK, after another significant amount of time, I realized that we need the umbrella term "Aggregation coefficient" in situations when a category aggregates subcategories with both types of extracredit.

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