on Jul 6, 2015| COMPLETED |  |
| Rationale |
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Many institutions want to have the ability to assign a student a draft or provisional grade before another grader or professor marks that grade as final. Other institutions would also like to have multiple graders evaluate a student’s work to get multiple perspectives on a student’s performance. This feature would support these scenarios by adding a grade moderation page where draft grades can be reviewed before they are published to the gradebook and are visible to students.
| User goals |
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As a teacher, I can mark that grades given for an assignment are held in a draft or provisional state until I have been able to review the evaluation and publish grades to the gradebook. As a teacher, I can select a subset of assignments as needing a secondary grade review to ensure grading is done in a consistent way (common need for accreditation in some regions). |
| Timeline |
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| End of Year |
I see this as a key feature in effective peer review.
In the spirit of "skating to where the puck is going to be", please take note that other platforms that have been doing this for years are recognizing the need for asynchronous peer review and are working in that direction.
As you build your platform please consider asynchronous work flows as well. I have written proposals that are being used by other LMSs and would love to freely share them with Canvas. In a world of Moocs, corporate training, competency based training, quest based training, choose your own adventure style training, and cafeteria style training, it is no longer reasonable to assume that students will be in the same place in the course as all other students. We must accommodate a variety of paths and speeds through content while at the same time allowing for social interaction and engagement in learning.