[ARCHIVED] Are there more keyboard shortcuts for grading in SpeedGrader?

[gmoore3]

When I'm grading on Canvas in a browser on a PC I would like to move through students and assignments without needing to reach for a mouse or touchpad. Right now I have only found "j" & "k" to move to next/previous student - and these only work if I am "active" in the grading section (right side of screen.) It seems I need to use my mouse/touchpad to jump between a student submission, i.e. to scroll though pages to read an assignment (on left side of SpeedGrader screen) and then use the mouse again to get back to the Grade and Comment sections (on the right side.) There should be a simple keyboard shortcut for navigation between these sections. Is there a way to do this without mouse/touchpad that I am just missing?

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

 @gmoore3  Welcome to the Canvas Community.  Thanks for posting your question.  You may have seen this already, but there are only a handful of shortcuts available in SpeedGrader...as described in this Guide: How do I use SpeedGrader? (see the section called View SpeedGrader Menu Icons on where to find the shortcuts).  Sorry that I don't have a ton more information for you...but I do hope this helps to answer your question.

[cbixel]

The speed grader appears to have been designed without consulting enough teachers.  It is fairly good, but misses the mark in several areas.  If you could get one of the coders at Canvas to do the following experiment, they would quickly understand the issue at a level that would then prompt them to immediately write the code to make the speed grader better.  Here is the experiment.

Experiment:

Imagine you have a wide variety of assignments.  Some you read completely and provide in depth feedback.  Others, you grade for completion only, and thus grade quickly and provide little to no feedback. 

Now, create a one page assignment that needs only a quick glance to determine if it is complete and has thus earned create.  Have 167 students submit a copy of their work.  Grade that work. 

After doing this, you will be quite motivated to do everything and anything you can to decrease the number of clicks you need to quickly move through your roster and get this grading done as fast as possible.  Every extra click is really 167 extra clicks.  If you have to wait 4 seconds for the next page to load, then that is really 11 minutes of waiting.  

Now you get it.  

[BoAeSorensen]

More keyboard shortcuts in Speedgrader would really be useful!

[Chris_Hofer]

@cbixel and @BoAeSorensen ...

You might want to consider creating a Feature Idea asking for more keyboard shortcuts to be added to the SpeedGrader.

How do I create a new idea conversation in the Instructure Community?

I tried looking for existing Feature Ideas that might be similar to what you're requesting, but I didn't find anything that matched exactly.  (It's always possible I could have missed something, though.)  There were one or two that had specific requests, but I'm not sure those would be the same as what you would want.  So, I think it would be best to create a Feature Idea addressing the specific shortcuts you'd like to have added.  (@cbixel you could even include much of your above comments in your own Feature Idea.)  Here are a couple other documents for you to look through:

• How do idea conversations work in the Instructure Community?
• What is the feature development process for Instructure products?

[Keromar]

Hi, I know this post is old but I am facing the same problem.
The only solution I found is to use Firefox which allows me to move between frames (the grading frame and the submission frame) with F6.
I still need the mouse though to put focus on the actual grade box when I am in the grading frame....

All the best,

Kurt