Comment Library Organization

[NancyJoLambert]

While I love having a Comment Library to house comments for easy insertion in Speed grader for assignment grading, I teach two graduate level courses and have many discussions, assignments, and projects for each class. I currently have over 100 comments and have to scroll through them every time I want to add one, and the order of the comments seems to change and have no organization making it difficult to find them each time. 

What I would like to know is Canvas working on a way to just have comments banked by class, or even better, by assignment? If we can't have the comments assigned to classes or certain assignments, can they at least be organized or in some sort of static order? Could there be Discussion Comments and Assignment Comments?

Having a comment library is wonderful, and saves time, but having literally no way to organize the comments makes having over 100 different banked comments frustrating to use when trying to "speed grade" assignments.

Any help or feedback on how to better organize or access comments would be greatly appreciated!

[SusanNiemeyer · Accepted solution]

I have found that "labeling" the comments is the easiest way. I teach ESL, and my comments are tied to specific exercises. Therefore, I start each comment with the name of the assignment: Simple Present 3, Future 10, and so on. Then when I start typing the assignment name (e.g. Nouns 5), the relevant comment pops up. Try something like this: Psych 100 DQ1. That would pull up the comment for Discussion Question 1 for Psych 100.

I am irked that the comments in the Comment Library are not alphabetized. That would help a great deal. 

[NancyJoLambert]

This is a good and helpful work around! I am adding some of these types of labels so they auto-populate and am adding grades or levels to the label too like 100 MA2, 80 MA2, 70 MA2 for the different earned grade comments that correspond to what they missed in the rubric. 

[rruckel]

I had this problem (so I searched, finding this question). I don't have time to contact support. What I *did* learn is that the comments *did* appear - in fact, I got three copies because I kept re-creating it and saving it. Apparently, there's a lag time in it saving and posting. I had tried getting out/back in also, so I think the delay is server-side, but it did eventually post my comments.