[Assignment Enhancements] Show entire comment history for submission

[awolfe]

As part of my grading process I will often leave students feedback in Canvas and expect them to use that feedback to improve and resubmit their work. Previously, I used to be able to easily see my entire comment history when reviewing student work and was able to have an ongoing conversation and easily see my old feedback.

The old behavior in SpeedGrader was to show all comments for a student on an assignment. In the Student Assignment Enhancements, this was changed so that only "Comments for this Attempt" are shown. Teachers now need to toggle back through old submission(s) to see what they previously said about a student's work.

I would like to suggest that this behavior be reverted or at least an option be provided to "Show all comments" to allow teachers to more easily have this sort of ongoing dialogue with students about their work without needing extra clicks to review old comments.

[rdutta]

This used to exist! Please revert to it!! Students and faculty need to see the history of documents to know how each submission has improved. This should move quickly beyond conversation!! And should not be that difficult to reset. Please do it as soon as possible.

[epratt]

Still no update on this??? It has been nearly a year. With standards-based (or mastery) learning, it is still such an inconvenience to change attempts, wait for my slow school computer to load the previous submission, view comments, returns to current submission, update grade and add more comments. Please give an options to View All Submission Comments! Or Previous Comments! Or Comments from Previous Submissions! Or some other logical name! Thanks 🙂

[kpk9]

Yes! Please bring it back.

[lauramaewojo]

Yes, we need this feature!

[bjpeterson]

Please look into this feature!!

[JennyFox]

Problem statement:

When a teacher is viewing comments they've given for an assignment in Canvas, they can only see the current comment they are writing. If they want to see previous comments, a teacher has to switch to a previous submission which is very time consuming and makes it harder to give follow-up feedback in comments.

Proposed solution:

Please show a running commentary of all comments from all submissions for assignments. A previous version of Canvas used to show all previous comments without having to switch to a previous submission and it made it so much easier to provide follow-up feedback based on previous comments. Thanks for your consideration!

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