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Thank you, Stephen, for looking into the issue. You confirmed our understanding of the current limitation in the export/import workflow. We will take a look at the Copy Course Block route you identified.

Hi Stephen, thanks for the quick response.

My process goes through the package format: I export the master as a Brightspace Package and import that package into the session instance shell. I believe that explains what I am seeing, and I want to confirm my reasoning.

I inspected the exported grades_d2l.xml directly. A Calculated item (type_id=5) exports with the same skeleton as any other grade item (category, name, scoring) but with no element of any kind referencing its member items. I compared a full export against grades-only exports with and without source files included, and the gradebook XML was byte-identical in each case, so no export variant appears to carry the membership. The Valence API documentation also states that direct creation of grade object types 5 through 9 is not supported, so the wiring cannot be supplied programmatically either as far as I understand.

If that is right, then the membership is never serialized into the package, and no import setting can restore information that is not in the file. The item arrives as an unwired shell, which matches what we observe.

So two questions: (1) Does that match your understanding, i.e. is export/import a dead end for Calculated membership regardless of settings? (2) Is Copy Course Components the supported path here, and does it preserve the member selection, with the references remapped to the copied items? If so, we can restructure our master-to-instance process around copy instead of import. I plan to verify in a sandbox either way, but it would help to know whether that is the intended behavior.

Thanks again,
Roger

The process is straightforward - at least I think it is. ;^) We export a brightspace cartridge from shell A and then import it into an empty shell B. The calculated grade "wiring" does not survive the export, so that wiring is lost on import. We get the calculated grade items, but their connections to the other grade items are MIA.