Sort Assignments by Date Received

[DrSunnyStubbs]

Is there a way to sort assignments by date submitted? For context, I am grading a year-round rolling course and would like to grade assignments in the order they are submitted.  (There are no due dates on assignments. I currently use the ‘To Do’ list on the right side bar for grading.)

I am concerned if I do not finish grading all assignments in one day, I could end up with a submission that gets graded much later than it was submitted. 

Thanks!

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @DrSunnyStubbs,

I don't really know of a way (without using some kind of custom coding) to change how the to-do list.  I do potentially have a bit of good news for you though.  When you're in SpeedGrader for a specific assignment, you can sort the student list by submission date.  If you do that, you can find the first ungraded student in the list, then the next arrow should take you to the next most recent submission.  You do have to do this assignment by assignment, but it may be better than nothing.

I hope this info helps a bit!  Please let us know.

-Chris

[jamday]

For institutions that use rolling enrollments and self-paced courses this approach does not work. There has to be a way to edit the settings to display assignments in the order they are submitted by the student. That should not rely on the due date of an assignment. Even if you used the due date, students would submit at different times and it would be unfair to make students who submitted early to potential wait until much later to receive their grade. Does anyone have any idea where in the GitHub code the speedgrader settings would be located and if there is a script to modify them?

[DrSunnyStubbs]

Thank you so much for the help.

Although helpful, this unfortunately does not quite solve the challenge of needing to grade the oldest submission first. I am grading a rolling course with numerous students and numerous assignments. Though I can grade the earliest submission on a single assignment, I need to know when the earliest submission on all assignments was in order to grade assignments in the order they are submitted.  

Again, this is a rolling course, so there are no due dates.  Course work is submitted for all assignments by students at different places in the course at any time of day, any day of the week. I just need to know of all the assignments submitted in one day which one was submitted first. Especially if I am unable to grade all of the assignments submitted in one day.

Thanks!

---Sunny