[ARCHIVED] Assignment titles are too truncated in Gradebook

[amberckerr]

Has anyone else had the problem that Gradebook severely truncates the titles of each assignment, making it impossible to tell which assignment is which?

Like most instructors, I give my assignments names like "Homework 01" and "Homework 02," or "Participation 01-27" and "Participation 01-29." Gradebook abbreviates all these to "Homewor...", "Homewor..." or "Participation...", "Participation...", etc. This makes the titles in Gradebook essentially useless, because it becomes impossible to distinguish a given assignment from several or perhaps dozens of other assignments.

If it is not feasible to display the whole title, how about doing "middle-out" truncation in cases where the assignment title ends with a number? It would be much more useful to see "Homew...01," "Homew...02," "Homew...03" etc., rather than just seeing "Homewor...", "Homewor...", "Homewor...".

[tobe_baeyens]

Great idea.

There are some workarounds that I use now:

1. I add the number in the beginning (f.e. T1: Homework)
2. I resize the columns of my gradebook (drag between them)
3. I order my gradebook in the same order as my modules (view -> arrange by module, first to last, view -> filters, modules)