Why did they add the Period filtering in Speed Grader? It makes us do more work.

[csrasmussen]

There was a recent filter change in Canvas, and I thought I was going crazy. Turns out, my department was struggling too. 

In Speed Grader, when I moved from P1 to P2, it refused to show me P2 and kept showing me everyone. This led me down a rabbit hole of clicking and clicking and almost never getting the period I wanted. 

If you're in P1 and you want to switch to P2 in Speed Grader, you now have to click P2; then, you have to click P1 to remove Period 1. This is completely unnecessary because we can just click "Show all sections." 

Now, we have to click multiple times to filter out other periods. It was better the way it was before. 

Anyone have a quick work around for this? Why did they add this? 

[dbrace]

Hi @csrasmussen,

By "P1" and "P2" and how you said "Show all sections", I believe you are referring to different sections that exist in the same Canvas course shell. Is that correct? If it is not correct, can you please clarify?

I believe this because of Canvas course shells with a lot of students and multiple sections in them. When there are a lot of students and a lot of submissions, the performance of SpeedGrader goes down. The ability to filter by section in a Canvas course shells, makes it so that not as many submissions are loaded in the background. It also helps when there are multiple instructors in a Canvas course shell and each instructor is only responsible for grading students in specific section or sections.

I do understand that it means that instructors need to remember to check and uncheck a section or use the "Show all sections" option; either of those options are an additional step.

-Doug

[csrasmussen]

That is correct, though I'm not sure what you mean by "many submissions are loaded in the background."

The change just seems a bit redundant and forces teachers to uncheck before moving on to a different period. This wouldn't be a big deal if it were a simple action--like in the Gradebook when I need to filter. However, in Speed Grader, the computer refreshes every time you click or unclick, which stalls the "speed" of the grading.

In the same course, for what purpose would a teacher NEED Period 1 and 3 selected but not Period 2? At that point, it just makes more sense to "Show all sections" and ignore the students in Period 2. 

[dbrace]

Please see the text from  How do I use the student list to view student subm... - Instructure Community - 770 .

Viewing an assignment by section only displays submissions for that section and decreases the overall loading time for the assignment's data. When an assignment is opened in SpeedGrader, all values for that assignment are loaded and saved in the browser, including student submission data, any grades (including original grades for resubmitted assignments), rubrics, and comments. To improve performance, assignments in large courses should always be viewed by section.

I hope that explains what I mean.

At my institution, I have courses in our medicial program where multiple sections of a course are in the same Canvas course shell. All of the sections are in the same course shell for course content consistency (blueprint courses would have been an option but it would have been more work). Each of those sections has a different instructor. Each of those instructors are responsible for only grading their students.

When I shared the section filtering option (along with the pros and cons), they were happy for this change.

-Doug