My skill with drawing using a mouse in Docviewer is rather lackluster. So my thought is a palette of predefined images would be ever so helpful. A question mark, green check mark, new paragraph, etc. would be rather useful. Any interest?
Another way to do it would be to enable autocorrect, using the same autocorrect shortcuts that packages like LibreOffice use; for example typing :check mark: produces a tick symbol, and there are many others. Also allowing us to make selected parts bold or underlined would be a great help. I'll also postthesein Canvas Studio.
Our tutors use a lot of tick marks, and most look a bit wonky, given that they are using a mouse. I know that many would appreciate a built in tick mark.
I would also like to see a default set of comments and/or an area to add comments that I frequently use so that I do not have to type them in every time. I use Typeitin at work but have a Mac at home for grading and Typeitin doesn't work on a Mac. I thought I saw this feature idea at one time. Anyone able to point me to that one to check on the status?
A set of defaults would be awesome. But I would also want to have the ability to draw my own "stamps" and save them for future use. For example, I often draw an "extra space dragon" (it looks a bit like Trogdor) if students accidentally include a blank page at the end of a document. I can't imagine many other people want my dragon, but it would be nice if I didn't have to re-draw it every time (I'm not sure how much the students care if they get an original).
Likewise, I don't mind drawing my own check, question mark, carat, triple underscore, chicken, etc., if I only have to do it once.
In the meantime, I find that on my Mac the keyboard shortcut Alt-V inserts a check mark in Text and Point Comments and in the Assignment Comments field of SpeedGrader as well.
I'd want fun stickers too with pictures (like my scratch and sniff that I normally use on paper copies of work). It's a nice way to motivate students when they are doing well or showing improvement.
A sticker/icon-chooser within the Canvas RCE would be great! Our school district uses CidiLabs for accelerated course design work, from which this screen shot was taken. Implementing a sticker library that is searchable by description tags would increase its utility immeasurably.
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