When copying courses, the list of Grade Center Categories can grow through duplication. The Categories list currently does not restrict the names to be unique, resulting in instructors' confusion and frustration when they see multiple entries on a Category-selection menu. The programming that controls the list of Categories needs to be fixed to restrict the entries to have unique names.
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Makes a lot of sense to avoid unnecessary problems, should have been setup this way from the start.
I am in fear that Blackboard will change this to bring columns in through course copy with out any categories at all if they have a duplicate category in the source course as they do in the destination course. That would be even worse, I think.
You should not be able to create multiple copies with a identical name from the Manage categories page, and if your coping a course and the same name exists in the source and designation courses after the copy, I would think you would want this same category association with both the preexisting and newly created/copied grade columns. We for the most part only have a gradecenter related copy happen once for everyone one of our courses (other than what might have been in the template that might be used as the designation for the copy) so i might not be aware of some problems that this might create.
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Sounds logical and yes we have that problem from time to time here.