When are Canvas developers and UX designers going to improve how students are able to see reassigned assignments?

[shadowplumber]

The Canvas student user's list view dashboard seems to be the only current way for students to see that an assignment has been reassigned. This is not helpful. At minimum, the "REDO" label should also appear on their assignment in Grades. Ideally, students will get a highly visible, prioritized notification that an assignment has been reassigned to them, and a section called "reassigned work" or something like that would appear at the very top of their grades if they have assignments that have been reassigned.

[james_whalley]

@shadowplumber When just checking this out, I noticed that reassignment requires leaving a comment. When testing this, I left a comment and assumed a notification would go out to the student. Because I had not posted the grades, the comment did not go out. I am going to put in a ticket regarding this and see if we can get any traction. I would note that the reassignment also appears on the students To Do list that appears on the Homepage of each course and on the Card View of the Dashboard.

[shadowplumber · Accepted solution]

Yes, it does require leaving a comment. I always give my students a zero grade when I reassign something, so I'm doing all three (posting a grade, leaving a comment, and reassigning). I do get that it comes up in the to-do list, but in accelerated courses that have 4 or 5 assignments per day, the reassignment too easily gets lost in the to-do list. The card-view of the dashboard (or list view) offers the best visualization and UX for students when it comes to reassignments, but I think that same format should be replicated on the grades page (showing the "REDO" label and showing the comment automatically without the student needing to click on the comment button), but more than anything there should be, in both the dashboard and the grades view, a prioritized, highly visible section for reassignments. These are logically the highest priority "to-do" item that a student can encounter.

I've also been having a hard time making screen-cap videos to show my students what it will look like when they get reassigned an assignment because my simulated "Student View" does not let me see the Dashboard from the student's perspective.

[shadowplumber]

Hi @James , any updates on this? It is still killing me. About 30% of my students every single semester have no clue they are getting assignments reassigned to them. I think there is a lot of UX work to be done here.

[james_whalley]

Unfortunately, I do not see any progress by the engineering team yet. You may also want to submit a ticket to Canvas support regarding this UX bug, as they might find multiple reporting institutions more of a priority.