Creating Sections for Grading by Multiple Instructors

[skhagen]

Let's say you have a lab with five instructors and 40 students, and you want students to work in groups of 4-6, so each instructor has 1 or 2 groups to work with.  Students submit individual lab reports for grading.  Does it make sense to create sections so that each instructor grades their section only?  This seems like a good solution for divvying up grading work and making sure each person is grading their assigned stuff.  (Other solutions I thought of so far include having students put their grader's name in their filename or at the top of their submission.)

This course has no sections within it currently.

Will this mess with the SIS integration in some way?  I've tried it in a sandbox, but not in a live course shell.

If the section structure were to change part way through the semester into groups of 2 students, still assigned consistently to instructors but maybe to different instructors than from before, is it okay to switch a student's section part way through the course?

Are there better ways to approach divisions of labor in Speedgrader that I'm missing?

Thanks for any suggestions you can offer.

[skhagen]

Anybody?  Bueller?  Bueller?

[kona]

 @skhagen , this sounds like a great solution, but... I have no idea if it will mess up your SIS integration. It would probably depend on exactly how your integration works. Because of this I'm going to share this with the https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/admins?sr=search&searchId=ab75a29b-5635-421d-af39-350d9c64477...‌ and https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/canvas-developers?sr=search&searchId=6939a765-6412-4cf2-a80f-...‌ groups to see if they can help with this.

[MattHanes]

I have not done this but typically changes that are made through the User Interface (like manually adding students to sections) are "sticky" and won't mess with the SIS integration. We have some courses that we use only for Testing and they combine students from up to 50 different sections. The students move sections whenever they change teachers and all the data (grades) stays exactly the same. Those courses do not have teachers in them though so I'm not sure if changing sections will disallow the old teacher from grading things. I would assume that's the way it works. You might try it with one lab first to make sure there are not any troubles and then expand it to the other labs. Hope that helps!