New assessments added to moodle course - formatting and prepping

A teacher added about 10 new assignments to a moodle 2.6.11 course.  These are the steps, things I did to ensure everything was in order.  A qualifier, this customer is hyper aware of the grade book.  The audience is high school. Its a blended class, in sense of it meets weekly in a traditional classroom, but has a fully on-line component.  Anyway.

1. I opened the data base and updated 10 records so the teacher would be notified upon submissions.  Using MySQL workbench, I have a snippet that makes this easy.  I could have done them one at a time via the moodle course interface, Assignment | Edit properties, but this was quicker.

 MySQL snippet

UPDATE `student`.`mdl_assign`

SET sendnotifications = 1

WHERE course = xxxx

;

Using a Gradebook lense,

1. Moved the newly added item into the Percentage of Course completed category. Using the Full gradebook view
2. Moved the assignments in the Full gradebook view - so their order in the User report matches the order of the items on the course page.  I have a script for this, but in this case, I have to manually move them.  I do appreciate the ability to place the item once if has been selected.

After moving the assignments in the Full view, the items order matches between the User report and the course home page

Moodle User Report - notice 7 items for unit 1

Moodle course home page - note the 7 gradable items on the course page in Unit 1 match the User report.

Note: The gradebook view is only concerned with gradable items, not content.  That is why you see content on the course home page but not in the gradebook user report.