New Quizzes: Dashboard To Do

[kassiea_calvo]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

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As with the original quizzes on canvas, when a student submits a New Quizzes (Quizzes.Next) assessment and there are items that need to be reviewed it should show up on our teacher dashboard in our To Do list so we know to submissions have been made so we can more easily access them in speedgrader to grade.

[William42]

I've been uses new quizzes for minor assessments this semester with Distance Learning, but have discovered that without completed quizzes appear in the "To Do" list it's not a practical tool for me to use.

[SaraBland]

Yes, this is essential! Such a waste of time and nearly impossible to keep track of trying to check for changes in the grade book constantly. When a student takes or retakes a New Quiz it needs to show up on the to-do list. 

[todd_couchon]

Is it possible to get a notification when a student submits a short answer/written response question on New Quizzes under our "To Do" section of our home page? This is a functionality of Old Quizzes. I know we can get an email notification but it's better to have it under the To Do list that way we can do all of our grading in Canvas without having to check email.

[DeniseKlaasen]

I really like new quizzes - the format, the new questions possibilities...but I really have trouble when it comes to grading.  It does not show up on my to do list so I have no idea when I have to grade a new submission.  ALSO, if I need to manually grade a short answer questions, it does not show up as ungraded.  It shows that it is already completed and submitted (green check mark).  This is very difficult for me to keep track of which quizzes I have graded and which I have not.  I have to keep track on a separate sheet of paper for the 6 classes I teach on who I have graded and who's test I need to look for to complete.  Is there any way to get this feature?  It is very time consuming and inconvenient not to have this feature like it was in old quizzes. 

Thanks for considering this change.

[MrWilliams]

This idea is really essential for any practical application. With most secondary teachers serving approximately 150 students across their schedule, the idea of returning to the assignment multiple times to scroll through and manually identify which assignments have new submissions that require additional grading is fairly impractical. Whether through the to-do list or some other push notification method, this idea seems like it is a requisite for NewQuizzes to be a functional tool for free response assessment items.

[rmcochran]

Anything that needs grading should appear on the instructor To Do list, regardless of what it is. This really needs to be addressed by Canvas.

[briddell]

This is critical for faculty workflow.  Please add this asap. 

[cindyk]

I get that new quizzes are an external tool but basic notifications are necessary!  Particularly since a grade of 0 is actually given - not just a grade pending but an actual 0.  Without notification, those 0's stay active and misrepresent the actual grades for the quiz and this for the course.

Why has this not already been changed?

[AmandaFedorko]

This feature is essential and I cannot believe that New Quizzes was released without this. It is adding so much time to hunt for student submissions to grade. Please correct this ASAP!

[AmandaFedorko]

Currently, when a New Quizzes assignment that has a teacher-graded component is submitted, it is recorded as a zero in the gradebook. There is no flag on the teacher's end that something needs to be graded or has been submitted, and on the student end this causes wild fluctuations in their grades as they wait for things to get graded (hopefully the teacher will notice, or they'll inform the teacher!).

My suggestion is for New Quizzes to function like other assignments in Canvas, where submissions prompt an alert to the teacher in some form (ex: to do list). I'm really surprised that this feature was NOT included when NQ was released, as it is such an incredibly basic thing that teachers be able to easily find and grade student submissions.