Ability to Save and Copy from Frequently Used Comments in Speedgrader/DocViewer

Idea created by Joshua Herron on May 15, 2015

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It would be a great timesaver for writing instructors and anyone else making many of the same comments to students on assignments to save and store comments in SpeedGrader/Crocodoc DocViewer as one is able to do in Turnitin's Grademark feature. This feature would help SpeedGrader really live up to its name, too.

This has been a request since August 2012: Ability to Save and Copy from Frequently Used Comments in Crocodoc : Help Center

This idea was considered when developing our product plan for Q3 2019 and is not expected to influence development within Canvas at this time.
This idea will remain open for vote.
If this idea is in the top 10% by vote next cycle it will be reconsidered.

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bowmanr@uah.edu May 15, 2015 8:25 AM
Joshua Herron -
That would be a really nice feature. In ANGEL it wasn't too much of a hassle because you had all of the comments available - you just had to find them and copy them. I have not used Turnitin's Grademark, but having a list of past comments that I could click on would greatly improve my ability to grade assignments quickly.

As an extension of this request (and to make the developer think - if it gets that far) would be for the list of comments to be available to all instructors/grading assistants for that course. I teach a course where I sit down with the TA's to perform the grading across all lab sections in an attempt to make the grading uniform. so having the bank of comments available to myself and the TA's would be a tremendous help.
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Robert Jones May 15, 2015 8:47 AM
You could have it that it is linked to either the course or the user?
The question I have would be whether you as a marker might want to share these comments with either other markers on the course or to other assignments in the course?
I can see the benefit of sharing common comments across multiple assignments
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bowmanr@uah.edu @ Robert Jones on May 15, 2015 9:17 AM
Robert Jones
Your comments are a good expansion on this subject. I had not thought about making comments available from one assignment to another assignment. I could use something like that in my course as well.. For me having the comments linked to the course would be fine. A more interesting approach would be to create a comment bank as an individual user that I could use when grading any assignment for any course.
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jordan@instructure.com @ bowmanr@uah.edu on May 15, 2015 4:24 PM
Great discussion Ron Bowman Robert Jones and Joshua Herron. I like how this idea is developing! We will put it up for community voting on June 3rd so be sure to "bookmark" and return to this idea so you can vote it up!

If any of you weren't aware, we have a redesign of Canvas Studio: Speedgrader 2.0 on our roadmap if you'd like to chime in over there. This might be a feature Christi Wruck is interested in discussing further as we get closer to Speedtrater 2.0 ;-)
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Kristin Lundstrum May 21, 2015 7:24 AM
Right now I have a Google Doc with common comments I make for my students. Copy + Paste has been helpful, but having them built in per-course would be wonderful.
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cwruck @ jordan@instructure.com on Jun 10, 2015 12:55 PM
In our Speedgrader 2.0 research we've heard the request for a comment bank quite often. It's a pretty big undertaking, but we're exploring the idea for inclusion in Speedgrader 2.0. It may, however, end up being more like Speedgrader 2.1. It really depends on how much we can get included in the scope for 2.0. Suffice it to say, we know this is a really important feature that could be very helpful when it comes to saving instructors time. And I LOVE saving instructors time!
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Alexander McCormick Jun 16, 2015 10:25 AM
I agree that having a comment bank would really speed grading of student papers. I'm told BB has such a feature and really hope to see it in Canvas.
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dahlj1@charlottesvilleschools.org Jun 18, 2015 1:25 PM
This would be a great buy in factor for hesitant teachers. The simplier the tool the more likely we will get teachers to use it.
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Shane Lindsay Aug 12, 2015 2:40 AM
This is essentially the same asCreate a Canvas version of QuickMarks by Joel Mills
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ccalderon@ewu.edu Aug 24, 2015 3:29 PM
Here's another great idea to save from the chopping block - only 13 votes needed before Tuesday! This is one of the best features of Turnitin's GradeMark. Going to reach out to my co-workers to vote this one up - let's make it happen!!
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ccalderon@ewu.edu @ Shane Lindsay on Aug 24, 2015 3:39 PM
Sadly, that one died on the vine with only 11 votes - let's keep this one alive!
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Kelley L. Meeusen Aug 24, 2015 3:59 PM
Joshua:

There is a great product (free - that's what makes it great!) that you can use in the interim. It's called TypItIn, and it can be found here: Downloads | Wavget

It is the professional version that is free.

Check it out.
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Emanuela Pokryfki Aug 25, 2015 11:19 AM
I think that it would be very helpful and time efficient having a text box where we could place feedback.
In Moodle there was a box called "Answer for Grader" which is a text box in which a teacher can write general or commonly used answer, not visible to student, but visible to the teacher at the time of grading, and it can be copied and pasted in the comment box for providing a feedback to a student.
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ccalderon@ewu.edu Aug 25, 2015 2:48 PM
Ron Bowman, Jill Dahl, Alexander McCormick, Kristin Lundstrum, Robert Jones - Only need 2 more votes to make the cut! Any bushes that can be beat to drum up some votes...?? Mixed metaphors aside, can we tap on a couple more shoulders to get those last two votes in?
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Alexander McCormick @ ccalderon@ewu.edu on Aug 25, 2015 4:45 PM
Thanks Crista Calderon, I'll send something around to colleagues. Not sure any of them are registered in the community but it's worth a try.
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Kristin Lundstrum @ ccalderon@ewu.edu on Aug 25, 2015 2:53 PM
Hi Crista Calderon ~ I've forwarded this link to a few people in my building. They should follow through before the end of the day.
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ccalderon@ewu.edu Aug 26, 2015 8:44 AM
Yay - we did it!
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Alexander McCormick @ ccalderon@ewu.edu on Aug 26, 2015 8:57 AM
Thanks for your advocacy and "nudging" Crista Calderon!
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Alexander McCormick @ bowmanr@uah.edu on Aug 26, 2015 9:09 AM
The last idea is definitely what I had in mind. Ideally with a facility for the user to organize comments in a way that makes sense to her/him to facilitate access (eg by course, by assignment, by comment type, or any combination of these).
a comment bank as an individual user that I could use when grading any assignment for any course
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Joseph Berry Aug 27, 2015 9:30 AM
Another vote here from the University of Birmingham - this has been a major wish of our faculty
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Jane Cartwright Aug 27, 2015 11:55 AM
To take this one step further...
In Angel within the HTML editor there was an "enable macros" button. One of our instructors used macros to create comments, images, and motivational feedback for each assignment. She would have several options for each assignment depending on how well the student did that she could easily pop into the comments area when grading an assignment.
The content from these macros were stored in the personal files area of Angel.

I believe that to do something like this would require Canvas to add the HTML editor to the comments area of speedgrader with a linkage to personal files.

This was a great feature that helped our instructors to grade quickly, effectively and oftentimes motivationally offering the same quality of comment to the first student who was graded as well as the last student (even when she had 100 assignments to grade in one sitting!)
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Jennifer Summers Aug 28, 2015 2:09 PM
We have been asking for this for 3 years!!

In theory, the Turnitin LTI allows you to use the GradeMark comment banks, but the LTI doesn't work correctly in our account so it isn't helping us yet. .
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Tammy Searle @ Jane Cartwright on Sep 3, 2015 2:45 PM
Thank you for your post!
We just got Canvas this term so we are new kids on the block; but I heard this comment from 2 faculty just today. Pretty much word for word:
"would require Canvas to add the HTML editor to the comments area .." they want to be able to insert images ---for math, comp. sci. feedback.

So, I am anxious to see where this feature request goes...
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Renee Carney Oct 16, 2015 12:41 PM
This idea is now Under Consideration. Find out more about the idea stages at What is the feature development process for Canvas?
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cwruck Oct 16, 2015 1:38 PM
Hey Folks!
I hope you noticed our new status. "Under Consideration". It means, we think this is a good idea and despite the fact that we can't get this done in the next 6 months, we're looking for ways to squeeze it in sometime in the future. We'll be working on some designs, will probably have questions for you at some point, and will be hoping some of you on this chain will want to participate in some user testing to make sure we're on the right track to solving this problem. Stay tuned!
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