WebCT Good News/Bad News #2:

Here’s today’s installment of good news/bad news concerning CE 6.1.1:

CE 6.1.1 Good News – Assessments & Assignments

1. Assessments with embedded images copy satisfactorily from one CE 6.1.1 course shell (when you copy the entire course) to another CE 6.1.1 course shell.
2. The histogram (report) for statistics now displays all scores.
3. There is no longer a 1300 characters limit to comments in the Assignment tool…the limit is now 1333 characters. :-)
4. An error is no longer generated when the cutoff date for an assignment is left blank because it no longer defaults to “blank.” You must enter a cutoff date, so the error cannot occur.
5. Comments entered in Assignment Dropbox are automatically viewable in the student’s view of the Grade Book.
6. Files attached to the Assignment tool can be replaced by a file of the same name and the old version no longer is displayed. This fixes a bug in 6.0.2.

CE 6.1.1 Bad News –Importing and Exporting Assessments

1. When you export assessments from CE 6.1.1 with embedded images (using the HTML image tag, as opposed to the Browse button) and then try to import that assessment into another CE 6.1.1 course, the embedded images are not imported. In fact, the folder in which the images are stored in the source course shell is not copied to the target course shell.