This was a learning experience for me and I’m grateful to Matt for volunteering.  One important note about GradeL and this translation is that this release still uses the American notation for decimals numbers with the period as the decimal separator.  Through Matt (and Wikipedia) I now know that some countries and languages use a comma as the decimal point, not the period like we do here in the US.  In the future, I should be able to accommodate this difference into the code as well.

As usual, you can download GradeL here.

Take care,
Allen

As usual, you can read the ChangeLog for details on this update and/or download it.  Also, please make suggestions for improvement and report any bugs you may encounter.

Take care!

Two major issues that have been addressed are grade calculation with the weighted averages option and a printing crash when printing progress reports.

Stay tuned for the next release.  Thanks you to those who have reported these bugs…keep the feedback coming!

Now, when a student has comments entered for the current marking period, an asterisk will appear before the student’s name as a reminder to the teacher that the comments exist.

Asterisks appear before names of students with comments.

I’ve also added more information to the OnlineGrade export file.  For those familiar with the OnlineGrades file format, the assignment category now appears between the <EALR> tags.

The next release is being prepared and should be available sooner or later.  If you’d like a sneak peak, you can download the current snapshot of the executable archive or the source archive.  However, use these at your own risk.

Now, in the Help menu, there is an option to “Check for Updates“.  When this item is selected, the program uses an HTTP request to check a file on my server, which contains the latest version number and compares it to that of the version being run by the user.

Check for Updates menu item.

For those interested in the implementation, I originally just spawned an instanced of wget with the Gambas EXEC command and then opened the file, read the contents, and deleted the file.  Fortunately, after digging a little deeper in the Gambas documentation, I discovered the Gambas component gb.net.curl, which includes an HTTPClient object type.  You can use this object to retrieve an file via HTTP and store it in a string buffer.  The Gambas documentation provides a good example of what I did.

Message reports the results of the update check.

So, although GradeL will not depend on wget, it will now require two more Gambas components, gb.net and gb.net.curl.  Look for this feature in the next release of GradeL.

As you already know, GradeL is a small, open-source project. Please continue to provide feedback and report bugs that you may encounter. While GradeL development is slow, it is still moving forward with your help.

Take care!

Eventually, this report will also display the overall grade and allow printing. Stay tuned…