If you haven’t gotten around to checking out the new features in Infinite Campus, I encourage you to do so by viewing two video tutorials I recently put together. This one is an introduction to the new Assignments module that has replaced the poorly named Lesson Planner (so glad that’s gone). And this one shows you some best practices for starting the year off with new, empty classes.
One particular change that some of you have already noticed is that you can no longer create assignments from within the gradebook by right-clicking on a grading category. After talking to the people at Infinite Campus about this, we understand that this represents a shift in their thinking about the Gradebook module in light of the new Assignments module. While you can still enter scores in the Gradebook module, they view it more as a place to view grades, while the new Assignments module is meant to be the main hub of your assignment/grading activity. As you will see in the videos linked above, scores can now be entered without ever leaving the assignments module by clicking the “Save and score” button. The screenshot below shows what this looks like. Notice that you can make comments on individual assignments, and you can drop (Dr) or mark assignments late (L), missing (M), exempt (X), etc. all from this module.