I’m hoping I’ll be able to publicize our proposed gradebook improvements in Moodle 1.9.5 very soon now, perhaps tomorrow!
Thanks to Nicolas for further improving the ‘Edit categories and items’ page (MDL-16913) so that columns for weight and extra credit are only displayed when necessary.
(To be added to Moodle Docs: Weight is only available for grade items within a category with weighted mean of grades aggregation type. Extra credit is only available for grade items within a category with either Mean of grades (with extra credits) or Sum of grades aggregation type.)
Elsewhere on moodle.org, I came across an interesting discussion: Plugin, module, block – what’s the difference? Perhaps we’ll get around to changing the name of the Modules and Plugins database one day!
