Filter Gradebook by Groups

[kas200]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

This is reviving quite a few suggestions, including Grades - Filter or Sort Students by Groups, Add "Groups" filtering feature to Assignments/Grading, and Gradebook Smart View by Group.

We need a way to filter the gradebook using student groups. Right now, the gradebook can only be filtered by sections within a course. There are quite a few use cases for requesting this functionality:

1. We have several large classes where the TAs are responsible for grading a subsection of a section within a course. This becomes tedious, because the filtering options for the gradebook limit this by section only. So if they have a section of 40 students but are only responsible for grading 20 of those, they need to create a section to filter the gradebook. This becomes troublesome when there are 400+ students in the course since creating sections requires the manual work of clicking on each student to change their associated sections. Even with section-anonymity turned on, this is still 60+ clicks for one subsection of 20 students.

2. We have several programs that use outside folks as facilitators who grade/interact with students. We set-up student groups for these folks so they can communicate with just their group of students. It would be nice to filter the gradebook of these groups instead of writing the facilitator's name in the Notes column or manually creating sections for the groups.

3. Some of our courses have several different groups in them for various purposes (different projects, in-class groups, etc). In general, it would be nice if instructors could filter off these groups to compare student performance and involvement.

As a final note, the drag-and-drop functionality of Groups is much easier to use than the manual process of creating sections. While manageable for small numbers, it's simply too much to handle for large courses.

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Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2019-06-22)‌ & https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-17625 

[vancej]

Where are the voting buttons? Sorry for the  question, but just do not see anything since this is open for  voting.

[ruvi]

Hi Jason, 

When you are logged in, you should see "Vote Up" and "Vote down" buttons.  

[mmoura]

Please please please add this feature! I have fully online classes with over 300 students, which are put into groups of 10. As they have group assignments, it would make my life so much easier to have access to a group grade book to facilitate grading. 

[rodger-ling]

Rather disheartening to see how good ideas such as this one languish.  We need this feature!  Blackboard has had "smart views" of the Grade Center for many years, even in its legacy products.

[JACOBSEN_C]

Yeah... two years and 639 up votes.  I think people want this feature....

[ruvi]

I understand that there has been positive movement on this - hopefully we will learn more at InstructureCon.

[Renee_Carney]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas 

For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2019-06-22)‌

[kas200]

[Renee_Carney]

 @kas200  Thank You  for submitting this idea, as well as,  @kmeeusen  Thank You ,  @ruvi  Thank You ,  @kmallette  Thank You ,  @alh245  Thank You , jwrobinson Thank You ,  @victoria_richar  Thank You ,  @sendres  Thank You, pan2da Thank You ,  @a1051490  Thank You , robin.litentejada Thank You ,  @de_millington  Thank You ,  @cfrodrig  Thank You ,  @awarmar  Thank You ,  @JACOBSEN_C  Thank You ,  @nbiddinger-c  Thank You ,  @ginan  Thank You , jeannine.kruse Thank You ,  @rake_9  Thank You ,  @maguire  Thank You , laurakgibbs Thank You ,  @g_r_saward  Thank You ,  @barish_golland  Thank You , oldroyda Thank You , mollym.ogrady Thank You ,  @vancej  Thank You , mmoura Thank You , &  @rodger-ling  Thank You  for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of Canvas!

[awarmar]

This needs a love option!! A very excited panda here as well!!