We just updated the site with a few bug fixes and some new features today. You can now enable or disable Sharing and Grades for any of the courses you create. We realized that some users like having lots of features and some don’t so we’ll be gradually scaling back the stuff that was originally enabled by default. This will make GradeMate a little less confusing at first while still allowing anyone to “unlock” all of the features that they want (and hide the stuff that they don’t want). Grades and Sharing for courses are still enabled by default for now, but in the next release (hopefully early next week) we’ll be disabling those features for newly created courses. You can always re-enable then when you want.
Also, the course settings page got a face lift, the course info is now viewable in the “Overview” tab of the course pages, and we want you to know that we’re listening to your feature requests! We’ll be adding course dates and times to the course settings page as well as a few more informational fields for you to use. The next round of features includes a new approach to Discussions that we’ll think you’ll love 