Is it possible to autosave rubric scores and comments in speedgrader?

[AkwasiOpoku-Dak]

Hi,

This may be a feature request: Is it possible to autosave rubric scores and comments in speedgrader? This has happened to me a few times where I am grading an assignment with a rubric that has say 4 or 5 criteria and lose my data.

Scenario 1

I'm at criteria 4 or 5 in a rubric and then I have to stop work (say for an appointment). If I save the incomplete rubric, the student sees an incomplete score, which often leads to anxiety and questions. It would be nice to be able to save an incomplete rubric for later completion and submission.

Scenario 2

This happened today: I'm at criteria 4 or 5 and then I accidentally click a button/key that moves me to a new assignment. (I don't know what I clicked or how it happened). If I navigate back to the original assignment, all my prior comments in the rubric are lost.

Either of the above problems could be avoided with an autosave or manual save option in rubrics that allows the user to save and keep working on the rubric without submitting a score to the student.

Thanks for considering my question/request.

[greydon · Accepted solution]

Hello @AkwasiOpoku-Dak

Yes, this has been requested before:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Auto-Save-Rubrics-or-Give-Save-Warning/idi-p/3...

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Assignment-Rubric-auto-save/idi-p/451012

This should have been addressed already and was deployed per Canvas' notes here:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Deploy-Notes-2022-08-03/ta-p/531275#toc-hI...

However, it appears that the change was made with a warning when leaving the rubric and not necessarily the auto-save like you have explained. Feel free to upvote those ideas as Canvas implements great ideas such as this that are found within the community.

[AkwasiOpoku-Dak]

Thanks Greydon.

As you noted, the fix does not include autosave so, if something happens that closes the Speedgrader or browser without formally exiting the data is lost. Also, I believe it does not include saving an incomplete rubric without submitting a grade to the student? If so, would that make this a feature request?

Thanks.

[lenz]

INSTRUCTURE/CANVAS DOESN'T CARE ABOUT AUTOSAVING RUBRIC SCORES AND COMMENTS IN SPEEDGRADER

Just lost 5 hours of my life here. Ah-gain. Thank you speed-grader, specifically, and CANVAS/INSTRUCTURE in general.

Oh, I WAS helpfully informed that my comments would all be lost, BUT WHAT GOOD IS THAT IF THERE'S NO EFFING WAY FOR ME TO SAVE THEM????? Frankly, I fail to see that as an improvement to just silently losing them all as was happening before this marvellous "solution" to the never-ending problem of losing hours and hours and hours of our lives comments written into rubrics in speedgrader vanish into the ether.

I couldn't even take screen shots because the effing "helpful" message covered my comments. SEVEN YEARS we have been telling CANVAS that speedgrader sucks the life out of us by obliterating our comments. NOTHING has been done to auto-save, draft-save, I-don't-give-a-rat's-@$$-what-kind-of save to prevent this. I will revert back to writing EVERYTHING in WORD, and then, POINT-BY-POINT copy/pasting my comments into the speedgrader rubric. Stupid me for becoming complacent and failing to do this today.

I'm a writing teacher. My comments are very detailed and very specific to each student's TEN+ PAGE PAPER. Thanks to CANVAS. my grades, which I have been working on non-stop for for TEN DAYS will be late again. i DON'T EVEN BOTHER to try to explain it to admin anymore because 1) it takes too long 2) it's unbelieveable.

There is a group of us who report, comment, bi*%h, complain, lament this ridiculous FLAW in CANVAS ceaselessly, After some HEATED discussion, CANVAS people inevitably mark a random comment/question/complaint as a solution and close the discussion. (Yes, I've actually seen them mark A QUESTION as a solution. WTF???) Then, we start all over again. For SEVEN YEARS. Clearly we are not a high priority - or any kind of priority - to CANVAS/INSTRUCTURE. Why should we be? They've already got their money.

If you are still reading this, bless your heart. I am ranting incoherently in my frustration with this stupid problemand this stupid product. If you are an CANVAS/INSTRUCTURE employee, DO NOT

1. RESPOND TO THIS WITH "WE ARE SORRY TO HEAR THAT YOU ARE HAVING ....." I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR IT (again). It's disingenuous, infuriating,. and patronizing.

2. DO NOT HELPFULLY POINT OUT the dozens of ways I can waste my time by suggesting, reading, posting to, or joining any of the various input channels devised to placate us. You have already wasted hours and hours and hours of my life. What's left of it is way too short, and final papers are way too long to deal with your labyrinthine, unproductive processes.  Spare me.

Are you still, still reading this?

CANVAS/INTRUCTURE doesn't listen, but it's nice to think that someone else is taking some of their precious time to do so.  I hope your experience with CANVAS is going far, far better than mine and that you are left wondering,"Whatever is she is going on about???"

Good luck, happy, peaceful, drama-free grading to you, and, if you are in the Northern Hemisphere, happy Spring!        

 

 

 

 

[danderson19]

The patch deployed doesn't solve the issue.

Our faculty report, and we have confirmed, that the popup still does not appear when switching to a different student in SpeedGrader -- only when leaving SpeedGrader for a different page (such as the Gradebook or the related assignment page). We have double-checked to make sure that popups are allowed for our instance of Canvas in the browser.

[CatharinaCoenen]

Hello greydon,

This is to let you know that NO warning pops up when leaving the rubric, unless you also leave speedgrader. This means that simply switching from one student to the next does NEITHER save the work NOR produce a warning that the work won't be saved. 

I just lost hours of work that way yesterday and it has happened to me numerous times before. My popup blocker is turned off, so that's not the problem. Our Canvas team has confirmed that this is not just an issue for me, but it happens also when they try it.

My colleagues complain about this massive loss of work frequently--it is an enormous drain on our time, especially at stressful times in the semester.

I am concerned to be reading in other comments here that this has been a problem for years and been brought to the attention of the Canvas team many times without a solution. 

[IngridParker]

I am having the same problem, multiple times losing all my grading work.  It is made worse by the fact that speedgrader makes it extremely easy to accidentally swipe to a new student. Disappointing and infuriating.