Moderated Grading needs improvements

DianaCooley
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Although the moderated grading feature allows multiple graders to enter scores, it does not have the capability to collate those scores.  We are not able to get an average score from all the graders or a summary of the individual rubric scores for each student. We tried using Outcomes to set up the rubric, but the scores in the Learning Mastery Gradebook were again, only those of the one grader selected by the moderator, or no grades if a custom score was entered, instead of an average from all the submitted scores.  Unfortunately, this also means the student only sees the comments from one grader.  Instructors are having to go back into Speedgrader to download the submission comments from the rubric page for each student and deliver the complete comments the last mile to the student.  This is cumbersome and time-consuming.  It seems to me that it should be a simple coding solution to not only offer an average score from all the graders, but also include an average of the rubric scores if using Outcomes.  At the very least, Canvas Support should be able to connect the results from the “Download Submission Comments” button on the rubric page to the student view icon for seeing comments once grades are posted. With these improvements, you can be confident the moderated grading feature would be much more popular with a wider group of users.

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