Can We Align Student, Teacher, and Admin Views of Grades?

[geores]

The student view of grades should be the same, no matter which role a person has (provided they have permission to view a student's grades). Our middle school just switched to only showing students letter grades by using "Restrict view of quantitative data." Students see letter grades, and if teachers click a student's name from the gradebook and then click Grades, they see the same letter grades the student sees. Excellent!

But if an admin goes the same route, they don't see the letter grades - they see numbers. This has been very confusing for our department chairs, who are sub-account admins. They needed to confirm that students are, in fact, only seeing grades. They also occasionally need to use the "Print Grades" feature from that page, but now what prints will show numbers instead of letter grades, which will be incorrect. I don't know if links will post correctly here, but just in case - this Google Doc shows the difference in each role's view of the same page with a series of screenshots: https://docs.google.com/document/d/104Ghbxc0VgPT0bnhz-SDqEinSlR3GD8W5C7ln7vG1ZY/edit?usp=sharing

[dbrace]

Hello @geores,

What you have posted is not really a question and is more of an idea or feature suggestion.

You can submit this idea as a feature suggestion and the directions to do that can be found at this link: How do I create a new idea in the Instructure Community?

-Doug

[geores]

I also submitted this as an idea.  I was hopeful that someone out there might have a cool workaround that would magically let admins view that screen accurately while Canvas (hopefully) works on making all of the views align.

[dbrace]

Maybe others do have a workaround but this time of the year can be a struggle to have Canvas LMS admins come to the Community because of how busy the beginning of a year/semester can be. I know that has been the case for me.

-Doug