iPhone Grading Currently Impossible

[weilerr]

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I'm on an iPhone, & grading is impossible through the app.  I'd like to grade my final exam's short answers, but I can't figure out how.  Please make this function more intuitive & user-friendly!  Not all of us have fancy tablets, & I don't have access to a regular computer during the day, so this would make my life much easier.  In short: I want to be able to do everything related to course assignment grading from my phone.

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[Renee_Carney]

 @weilerr ​

Thank you for this idea.  I can see how this is very important to you and your workflow.

[pinej]

Frankly, even with a fancy tablet it is still not worth the effort.  I am SO disappointed at the lack of ability to get into the assignments themselves as the instructor I am.  Worst of all, though, is that the rubrics I use, which involve a series of items each worth X points, which I want to use with comments and use as the grade, end up as all-or-nothing choices on the iPad app.  Which of course means that I cannot use the app to grade student work with those rubrics.  Maddening.

Just as a side note, if it is possible to fix the rubrics could we please fix the ridiculous default that drops points as you add columns at huge percentages?  Does anyone actually have rubrics where you either have 100% or 50% or 0%?  Why not first 90%?  Or even 75%?

[kmeeusen]

Judy:

Have you tried using the SpeedGrader App on your iPad?

With it you can then use SpeedGrader to grade assignments, and the rubrics work great!

[pinej]

Some things do work in Speedgrader, but it does not work great in my opinion.  As I said, I have assignments where I have, say, 10 criteria, each worth a max of 10 points.  I want to be able to go in and say "you get 7.5 points", and "you get 4 points", just filling in the box, and then note why in the comments. In the PC version I can do that, but in Speedgrader App on iPad it will only let me give them 10 pts or 0 pts.  This is really annoying.  I don't want to make a bunch of columns for every possible number between 0 and 10 (with .5s and even maybe .75s in there as well).  I just want to be able to fill in the box with whatever number I want (even, sometimes, 11!).  I can do that with the PC, but I cannot with the mobile app.

I bought my iPad because we were going to Canvas and I thought it would be so cool.  I do a bunch of other stuff with the iPad but I've given up on Canvas with the iPad, as it won't let me do what I want.  And worse yet, the iPad App won't let me go into the assignment as instructor and change the rubric, so even if I decide "hell, I give up, I'll make a bunch of columns in the #$%& rubric" I can't do it in the app.  I can get in via the browser, but this is glitchy as it is not designed for the mobile platform, so I end up heading back to my office and my PC where I can actually do what I want to do.

Sorry, I'm het up about this.  TLDR: no, you cannot do everything in SpeedGrader on iPad, and in fact that app is more frustrating than useful for what I want to do with it.

[jordan]

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[sarah_vroom]

I agree with this issue! Grading anything on my iPhone is difficult. Assignment grading has improved, but I still can't even see quizzes that I create. I would love to at least be able to see quiz submissions from students on my phone!

[Renee_Carney]

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[anar1_mccaffrey]

I agree. I've tried grading with my iPhone to try to give instant feedback for students (and to be more efficient with my time) but it has been extremely frustrating. I've reverted to an old school gradebook that I check students off in, then go back into Canvas later to add the grades. It is not easy to navigate.

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