"View Feedback" improvements

[KimFergus]

Can we make the "View Feedback" button bigger from the students' end? It is so small, my students don't see it or know it's there, especially my online students who are not in the classroom with me to get direct instruction on how to do this.

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Hi there, @KimFergus ...

You'd want to submit this as a feature request here in the Community website:

• Canvas Ideas - Instructure Community

Here's a few other helpful documents that you'd want to review as you create your idea:

• What is the feature development process for Instru... - Instructure Community - 469504
• How do Ideas work in the Instructure Community? - Instructure Community - 2980
• What are the guidelines for submitting a new idea? - Instructure Community - 535609
• How do I create a new idea in the Instructure Comm... - Instructure Community - 2986

And, just so you know, there have been a few recent blog posts from Instructure staff about changes to the idea process in the near future:

• It’s Time for Your Feedback on the Future of Ideas... - Instructure Community - 619026
• Thank You for Your Feedback on Ideas and Themes - Instructure Community - 626947

I hope these links will be helpful for you.  Sing out if you have any questions...thanks!

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Hi there, @KimFergus ...

You'd want to submit this as a feature request here in the Community website:

• Canvas Ideas - Instructure Community

Here's a few other helpful documents that you'd want to review as you create your idea:

• What is the feature development process for Instru... - Instructure Community - 469504
• How do Ideas work in the Instructure Community? - Instructure Community - 2980
• What are the guidelines for submitting a new idea? - Instructure Community - 535609
• How do I create a new idea in the Instructure Comm... - Instructure Community - 2986

And, just so you know, there have been a few recent blog posts from Instructure staff about changes to the idea process in the near future:

• It’s Time for Your Feedback on the Future of Ideas... - Instructure Community - 619026
• Thank You for Your Feedback on Ideas and Themes - Instructure Community - 626947

I hope these links will be helpful for you.  Sing out if you have any questions...thanks!

[dbrace · Accepted solution]

Hi @KimFergus,

I understand the struggle from student and instructor perspectives with the "View Feedback" link for assignments. A few things to note:

1. While geared more towards the peer review process, there is a Feedback Overview (Students) video that shows the "View Feedback" link.
2. There is a support article at How do I view annotation feedback comments from my instructor directly in my assignment submission? that describes the steps.
3. If you are using the optional "Assignment Enhancements" feature, the student experience does change for viewing feedback.
   • go to the "Canvas Feature Option Summary" webpage at https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Resource-Documents/Canvas-Feature-Option-Summary/ta-p/5313... and to then the "Feature Previews" section (which is about two-thirds of the way down) to find "Assignment Enhancements"
   • How do I view assignment feedback from my instructor using Assignment Enhancements?
   • What is Assignment Enhancements?
   • Assignment Enhancements Users
   • Canvas Release: Assignment Enhancements
   • How do I manage feature options for a course?
   • NOTE: whether or not a specific feature option is allowed or not is determined by your institution's Canvas administrators

I hope you found this information to be at least a little helpful for how it is now and how things are changing as Instructure improves the Canvas LMS.

-Doug

[jsowalsk]

@KimFergus What tool is this for? Speedgrader?

[KimFergus]

No, this is for submitted work. You can highlight and comment on student's submitted work in Speedgrader, but students don't see those highlights and comments unless they click the "View Feedback" button on their submission page after the assignment has been graded.

[AppleCH]

The view feedback annotation feature has been removed as of 2025.03.05. Now my students can no longer see my annotations on their submissions. 

[KimFergus]

That is insane! I hope you put in a work order ticket for this!

[dbrace]

@AppleCH,

Are you able to share a redacted screenshot/picture of what your students are seeing? I am asking because the small "View Feedback" link still appears when I try (when acting as them with my admin access) in both production and beta.

If you are not able to share a screenshot/picture, I would recommend going through your institution's normal process for getting suppport (either from within an institution's support team or directly from Canvas Support).

-Doug

[dbrace]

Thank you for the screenshot, @AppleCH.

While the seems to be a problem, based on the screenshot there are a couple of possible variables:

1. the submission is a Google Assignment
2. the feature preview of "Assignment Enhancements" is being used

I would recommend that you go through your institution's normal process for getting help (either from within your institution's internal support team or directly from Canvas Support).

-Doug

[AppleCH]

I have never had an issue with my other Google assignments in the past 5 years. The view feedback annotations worked a month ago. Now it has been removed from all of my other Google assignments. 

Thanks for your help. 

[dbrace]

You are welcome, @AppleCH.

I understand that everything may have worked in the past.  For something like this, members of the Instructure/Canvas Community can only help so much because we do not have access to your course or your Canvas environment.

-Doug