As an off-shoot question to this thread, is there a maximum number of chars (that would have to include html code) allowable in the comment field?
If there is, first, what is the max?
Second, is there a place where this max may be reset to a higher number? If so, where do I look?
Thanks!
Also, to Vicki,
Similar to what you want to do, I've created a grading worksheet in Excel that is pretty sophisticated. One of the things I have it do is take my feedback commentary and rubric scoring and turn it into an html string. Later, I upload the results into Moodle's gradebook - scores + comments that are pre-defined in HTML wrapping.
I prefer to grade off-line. Besides just preferring to do the work offline, I am working on developing a new type of student dashboard, and I want to see what type of information I need to stay ahead of students to improve the semblance that I am closely paying attention to them (part of an overall strategy to mimic how teachers know when something is going wrong with a student by noticing things). So one of the things I do is provide fairly rich feedback, and I do some of this with algorithms in Excel, which becomes HTML coded text in Moodle's comment field.
-George
