Assignment subgroups

[hesse151]

I would like to see assignment subgroups. This would be mostly for organization. I am a TA for a laboratory class and we usually have several types of assignments associated with each lab: some pre-lab quizzes, virtual labs, and a lab report. It would be helpful visually to be able to organize this within a lab assignment subgroup called lab 1, lab 2, etc.

Another reason this would be helpful is that I could keep my lab names more general. This would help if we add, remove, or change the order of the labs we do. I currently title my lab assignments some thing like "Lab 5 Report: ECG". If I changed this so it's now the 6th lab, I need to change everything with "lab 5" in the title so it's now lab 6. If there were assignment subgroups, I could keep the name more generic like Lab Report: ECG. Since it would appear under the lab 5 subgroup, it would still be clear to students how this lab fits into the progression of the course.

[MichaelMoonAPRN]

• Within the health professions program, we require a 75% test average to pass courses.
• In addition we have other assignments that contribute to the course grade.
• Canvas needs the ability to have a total column for selected groups of assignments such as examinations, quizzes, other testing rather than having to lump everything into one testing group.
• This is in addition to the total column for all of the groups when calculating the final grade.
• For example if I had three four groups
• Exams
• Quizzes
• ATI Testing
• Written Assignments
• I would like the ability to have a total column for exams, quizzes, and ATI testing that would allow me to determine if the students had a 75% testing average
• I would also like the total column for all of the groups so I could see the overall course grade.

Respectfully submitted
Michael D. Moon PhD, RN, CNS-CC, CEN, FAEN
Professor

Instructor User

[francet]

I would greatly appreciate this capability.  We have semester course; I'd like to be able to put all of the assignments from Q1 into a folder once it has finished. 

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