Visual Indicator when points assigned are above the maximum point value of an assignment

[canvas_admin]

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I would like for a visual indicator to confirm that a professor and/or TA wants to assign a student points that are higher than the value of an assignment.

Example:   An assignment is worth 2 points and the Professor/TA assigns 4 points to a student.

Here's the process as I envision it:

1. Professor/TA assigns point value higher than what the assignment is worth.

2. The point value changes color (red?) indicating that the points assigned are higher than the value of the assignment (maybe also a yellow exclamation mark?).

We recently had a professor who, not paying attention, awarded points for an assignment on a 100 point value when the assignment was based on a per instance value and there are only 2 instances required.  A warning flag of some type could have prevented this.

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For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-09-17)

[biray]

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[Renee_Carney]

This idea has resurfaced and will open for voting Feb. 3rd.

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[Renee_Carney]

  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-09-17)

[Renee_Carney]

Thank you to  @canvas_admin  for submitting this idea, as well as,  @SethBattis ​,  @millerjm ​,  @hvaughn ​,  @Ron_Bowman ​,  @asatkins ​, &  @kimberly_smith  for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of the Canvas!

[kredmon]

Renee,

As far as I can tell (based on your 2016-09-17 release notes) the features the teachers are requesting here have NOT BEEN implemented into Canvas.  The only thing that has been done is added a pop-up feature which many teachers do NOT want.  In addition, the pop-up comes and goes and when a teacher is doing mass grading, they may not see this (especially if they're using a 10-key and not looking at the screen).  

The feature that teachers want is some sort of flag or color on the assignment if it exceeds or goes negative.  This has NOT been included as far as I can tell.  Am I not reading the release notes correctly?  Please advise.  My district is adopting Canvas for this next school year and this is a feature we had on our previous LMS (School Loop).  Many teachers in our district are dismayed that there's only a pop-up.  

Please advise.

Thank you.