Curving of Grades

[JonathanSherrat]

I have just discovered "curving of grades" the hard way, by doing it without realising what it meant, and then finding it was irreversible.  I have two thoughts about it:

1. It should have an undo feature.  Any software that can make a change like this, affecting almost all student grades, should have a facility to go back to the original grades.  Canvas does still know these -- they are in the grade history.  A piece of software which doesn't have an undo facility is quite simply bad software.

2.  I believe that there is a problem with language.  "Curving of grades" is evidently an American expression.  In British English I interpreted it as drawing a graph of some kind to illustrate the grades, and from google I see that I'm not alone in this.  So that's what I was expecting, not some recalculation of the grades.

Perhaps Canvas will rethink some aspects of this feature,

JS

[ProductPanda]

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