Increase student visibility into course expectations

Status: Identified Submitted by Instructure on ‎01-30-2023 08:58 PM

Theme Overview

Students need more insight into assignments and grading expectations to reduce confusion and increase success. 

What value could this provide to users?

  • Instructors can add hyperlinks to Rubrics and link students to individual Rubrics
  • Students can access an answer or solution key upon assignment submission
  • Admins/instructors can choose to show only the Learning Mastery Gradebook for individual courses
  • Students and instructors can view original annotations in Speedgrader when an assignment is resubmitted
  • Students can easily navigate the group assignment view
  • Default status for "calculate based on graded assignments" for individual student grades view is unchecked

Referenced Ideas (20)

[Syllabus] Display course grading schema on syllabus page Submitted by: milesl
[Student Grades] Re-format What-If Scores feature to reduce confusion Submitted by: mbmacdonald
[SIS] Post Assignments to SIS before submissions Submitted by: matt2
[Student Grades] Student grade view- arrange by module- students cannot see which assignments are associated with which module in the grade view. Submitted by: briczu
[Student Grades] Allow Students to Filter Grades by Semesters Submitted by: Karen93
[Gradebook] Manually hiding select gradebook columns from student view Submitted by: tjorr04
[Catalog] Student Dashboard - "Go To Course" link greyed out Submitted by: sheads
[Student View] Link to individual Rubrics Submitted by: burdicks
[Admin Tools] Allow teachers to temporarily block access to their Canvas site during exams Submitted by: ColinMurtaugh
[Rubrics] Hyperlinks and Basic Formatting in Rubrics Submitted by: KristinL
[Assignments] Allow immediate feedback in assignments Submitted by: akoch
[Student Grades] PROGRESS BAR for Assignment Groups Submitted by: ID_2020
[Assignments] Group Assignments - Display non-grouped student comments Submitted by: gladysie
[Feedback] Speed Grader Keeps Comments/Annotations from Prior Submissions Submitted by: abander
[Groups] Showing at least one group membership column on the People page. Submitted by: simon_rodan
[Student Grades] Edit Visibility of Assignment Group Column Submitted by: bgarner
[Modules] Module Progress Bar (amended) Submitted by: ProfessorBeyrer
[Calendar] Assignments due at 11:59pm should NOT appear as all-day events Submitted by: swind
[Course Settings] Allow 'Show Students ONLY the Mastery Gradebook' option (for individual courses) Submitted by: mmikulski
[Student Grades] Allow "Calculate based only on Graded Assignment" Default Status to be set by Institution Submitted by: mlattke

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