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tita · ‎01-07-2022

There doesn't seem to be an index for custom dimensions in Google Analytics 4. Is there an appropriate substitution? There is an event parameter but you can't enter a number. Is GA4 not compatible? Or does entering custom dimensions in order set the index (if so it's not displayed)?

tita · ‎04-14-2020

I don't think it's recommended to use your PMI information.

tita · ‎08-04-2017

Hi, please note that I don't consider this completed due to the way this was implemented. I have contacted the product manager through our CSM and would love someone to contact me. With Moderated Grading, we are so close.

tita · ‎07-25-2017

Hi Joel, I have also been trying to sort this out for over a year on behalf of our law school (and probably most law schools in the US) and I agree with nearly all of your points. 1) Christie Wruck recently made me aware of Moderated Grading privilege which is normally given to instructors so they can moderate grading of their teaching assistants. In our case, I created an account-level role for the law school called Exam Admin and gave them that privilege, and unchecked it from the instructor role. I then checked the moderated grading checkbox when setting up the assignment. Instructor can grade it but can't see name in Speedgrader, just "Student1". The Moderator has a page that allows them to see who has been marked, then release those grades to Grades, where identity can be seen by instructor. In our case, it is important that the SIS ID is NOT tied to specific assignments because students have the right to contest their grade which voids their anonymity for that assignment. If there is a second exam, they need a fresh anonymous ID specific to the assignment, thus the SIS ID, or any ID that stays with the student for the entire course, won't fit the bill. Also, in our case, the instructor has no idea who submitted first because tests are either take home or administered by an independent proctor, so Student1 is adequate. If you need to maintain anonymity after the grade has been posted to the Gradebook (so instructor can't modify it there after they see it next to name), then maybe you can substitute name for SIS ID in courses with Anonymous Grading is turned on. As for our law school, they probably won't, because some courses need to enter a participation grade and because Anonymous Grading anonymizes all assignments in the course, Grades is the only place they could enter that next to a student's true name. 2) Although we'd love the instructors to grade online in SpeedGrader, we know most will want to download Word files and print them out. Unfortunately, when you download all submissions as a zip, "Anonymous Grading" means files aren't named after student names but still appends an ID that the instructor can tie back to the student name (I won't give it away, but there are two places this occurs). In addition, since this ID is not displayed in Speedgrader, the instructor can't grade papers offline and enter the grades into Canvas anywhere, except by visually inspecting the words or if the student were given a random, unique number to write in the header of their essay. This is why an ID that is unique to course-student-assignment, is important to us, though it doesn't have to be based on order of submission. If we could just name the downloaded files in the zip in a way that couldn't be traced to the student identity, our law school could use Canvas Assignments. I'm curious about your perspective, as I'm aware multiple needs need to be met. Keli Amann User Experience Specialist Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning, Stanford University P.S. As it is, we have built our law school a very simple app that just allows students to submit a single file anonymously; without this will have to expand it to support multiple exams (new ID series each time), deliver the question online (students have to pick up question on paper), and on a timer. At that point, we'd be halfway to rebuilding Quizzes tool in Sakai, the LMS we came from, and we'd prefer not to go down that road.

tita · ‎08-23-2016

Hi Renee, thank you for the fix on Assignments, but the requested fix is also for Quizzes file upload question. Are there plans to fix this as well?

tita · ‎07-22-2016

I'm going to amend/elaborate on my comment above. For strong absolute anonymity, names would need to be hidden in Gradebook, not just Speedgrader (described in detail at " style="color: #2989c5; ). However, in addition, you would also need to build a way to allow NON-anonymous assignment grade entry, which probably means that the anonymity should be an assignment option, NOT a course level feature option that affects every assignment (though some people might like that, Instructure should check their data). Canvas would have to prevent instructors from reversing this setting if any students have started. Schools would also need to be able to generate blind grading IDs which need to be integrated into Canvas' Gradebook. There are also the soft factors; in my user research on our campus in the past, final grades are not always truly "calculated" or if they are, are done in ways the Gradebook hasn't factored in. Other situations may differ but I think both Instructure and each campus should do a deep dive into user needs. However, another possible solution is what I'd call an auditable solution 1) As described above, make anonymous grading an assignment setting, not a course setting 2) keep names VISIBLE in Gradebook BUT 3) disable direct editing and upload of files into Gradebook, thus requiring that instructors use Speedgrader 4) Create a "release grades" button that only lets grades entered in Speedgrader flow to students and Gradebook when pressed (similar to a mute for both students and instructors) The student has a copy of their original grade. If changes are made to their assignment grade after instructor knows identity of student that created it, student is notified. This might be more flexible toward whether schools had a blind grading ID (perhaps they all do) as well as how instructors calculate and enter final grade. Someone may find other issues with this solution. As mentioned above, I don't have a horse in this race (will probably use anonymous non-graded survey in near term), but am sharing my thoughts on this in case it is helpful

tita · ‎07-22-2016

following up again. I don't think we can set the course to be default wholly anonymous, and require instructors to then figure out who students are by making them use a correspondence table. I also think the idea that instructors will calculate final grade in Gradebook is actually likely--I don't think it accommodates all the ways they think about generating their final grade--it's not always a simple calculation. Thus I haven't been encouraging people to vote for this exact idea.

tita · ‎07-21-2016

Hi, thank you to everyone who came today. As mentioned, when our developers are done cleaning the code, we will make it available--details will be posted here. However, if you attended (or watch the YouTube video when it's posted), then you know this tool may not fit your school's use cases, which are probably diverse. In the long term, Canvas might be able to support your use cases better --as far as I can tell, there are only two improvements that feature option Canvas Studio: Anonymous Grading would need to make to be truly anonymous. When Anonymous Grading is on, don't add student name to filename in bulk downloaded files Completely Anonymous Grading, Persistently Blind Grading As I discovered just today, these have both moved from the "Open for Voting" phase to the "Gathering Info" phase, so you don't have to vote them up but I think it might be useful to describe your use case by replying to my latest post on Completely Anonymous Grading, Persistently Blind Grading--this might be taken into account as the product team is doing their research.

tita · ‎07-21-2016

Hi, I'm about to talk about Submit Gradable Work Anonymously to Instructors here at Instructurecon in an hour. While we came up with our own app to deal with our limited use case (one exam, file upload, no transmission of question online), we'd love to take advantage of full Canvas functionality. I just realized that this "feature idea" is really more like a bug shared in common with ungraded anonymous surveys--if there is a file upload option in such a survey, download all files will also attach the student's name to the file name. Solving this feature idea/bug alone would probably work for us, though I think adding Completely Anonymous Grading, Persistently Blind Grading to the Anonymous Grading feature option is going to be the more universal fix and completely support it.

tita · ‎07-21-2016

I have been encouraging people to vote for this more to bring awareness that this a widespread pain point, so much so that we've had to develop our own tool to deal with this in the meantime (which I'm presenting at Instructurecon in 2 hours). I also liked that it was less prescriptive than a similar feature idea I had entered. However, I'm realizing that even saying hide names in Gradebook (Grades) and Speedgrader doesn't take into account use cases where at least some assignments in a course or subaccount are NON-anonymous, like participation or papers (some courses at our school have that option). In addition, in our case, Instructors themselves are doing the grading, not Graders, so it needs to be anonymous to them (I note that this seems to be the case for Ellen at BC as well). If there were instead a way to control the flow of grades to Gradebook, perhaps an optional assignment or quiz setting, then this might work. However, that that means it's up to the instructor to remember to set this (or unset this) per assignment. That's not an issue for us, since the law registrar at our school sets up all exams, not the instructor, but I'm guessing this is not universal. All in all, this is a tricky nut to crack. So I'm hoping that in addition to voting this up, people will share their use cases here (or let Instructure know you're willing to be contacted by leaving a comment below). For instance, our law school has some courses which final grades are solely determined by a final exam, but half of those courses let students opt into "Section 2" which can instead submit a non-anonymous paper--on closer examination, wholesale hiding names in Gradebook when Canvas Studio: Anonymous Grading feature option is on will NOT work for us (I'm curious if this feature option has been adopted at all, actually) . If the issue of When Anonymous Grading is on, don't add student name to filename in bulk downloaded files is addressed, we might instead end up setting up those final exams as anonymous "ungraded Surveys" within quizzes--this hides Speedgrader altogether but allows for bulk download of files, which is how our files are submitted. Students would still have to enter a blind grading ID in their file--Our law professors seem to prefer to grade printouts. They don't currently use Grades (Gradebook) to submit grades--they enter it directly. So to those who voted, some things you might mention in reply--are all assignments in a course anonymous? Are they all file upload? Who administers your exams--the instructors or a third party? Who does it need to be anonymous to, just graders or also instructors themselves? Apologies in advance if I'm hijacking this thread. As mentioned, we can probably deal with our needs using a separate fix if the solution to this feature request ends up going in a direction that doesn't work for us, but it would be great if it could work for all.

tita · ‎06-02-2016

Thanks for your vote @DanBurgess , on this and Completely Anonymous Grading, Persistently Blind Grading . Spread the word at UMichigan! We have supported our law school's need with anonymous grading in our Sakai instance, which is getting shut down at the end of the year--it's the one thing our law school needs to completely migrate. I'll be talking about a custom solutions we've built locally at Instructurecon, Submit gradable work anonymously to instructors , but our solution is pretty minimal and not scalable.

tita · ‎06-02-2016

Thank you @kmeeusen and @Renee_Carney for putting this up for a vote. This idea is important to us, and as I do more research, to many other schools.

tita · ‎06-02-2016

@david_house , and everyone else who voted on this: even though this didn't make the 100 vote threshold, half of the idea was implemented with https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-4163 Unfortunately, that only locked the names in Speedgrader, not in Gradebook. This is an issue with our Law School and thus, they are still unable to use Quizzes for final exams. There are 2 remaining items that need your votes to make "Anonymous Grading" truly anonymous--please upvote and tell your colleagues at other schools to do so as well before time runs out! " modifiedtitle="true" title="When Anonymous Grading is on, don't add student name to filename in bulk downloaded files

tita · ‎05-26-2016

great, I just voted this up! If you get a chance, please vote this one up--the file name of student uploads that are submitted, even when the Anonymous Grading feature is turned on, are still tagged with the student's name.

tita · ‎05-26-2016

Hi Helen, I'm trying to determine if this idea is essentially the same as one I just submitted. In Dec 2015, Canvas released a Canvas Studio: Anonymous Grading feature option that can be turned on in a subaccount or even in a course by an account admin that prevents an instructor from toggling hide names on and off in speedgrader--it's simply hidden. However, since grades are then sent to the Gradebook, and since these same assignments are gradeable there, next to the name of the student, the feature is still not usable. Would you mind taking a look at my " style="color: #2989c5; text-decoration: underline;? Once all grades are entered, an account admin could turn the Anonymous Grading feature off for a course and the instructor could then see names again. If you think these are essentially the same ideas, maybe you can say so and I'll endorse this one. If not, can you go into more detail?

tita · ‎05-25-2016

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Idea open for vote Wed. June 1, 2016 - Wed. September 7, 2016 Learn more about voting... Although it is tantalizingly close, turning on Canvas Studio: Anonymous Grading (AG) feature in an account or subaccount does not guarantee anonymity to students using Assignments and Quizzes and we are unable to take advantage of it . We need this feature along with Completely Anonymous Grading, Persistently Blind Grading to receive 100 votes and get to the next stage . Please vote for both! Problem: in a file upload Assignment or question in a Quiz, the student name is prepended to the file name in bulk zip download ("Download All Files "button on the Assignment). Instructor who are downloading files for offline grading can easily tie student to their submission. Solution: Name should not be prepended to file name during zip download. Name could be replaced with "Student#" where # is the same as the student numbering within Speedgrader, allowing for instructors to input grades in Speedgrader. Comments from Instructure For more information, please read through Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-08-27)

tita · ‎05-25-2016

*If AG is already auditable please let me know where. Otherwise, the way to actually make this auditable 1) create a “Participation Grading type assignment” that doesn’t hide names in Speedgrader even if AG is on 2) while AG was on, Canvas would need to Mute Assignments within Speedgrader should prevent scores from flowing to the instructor view of Grades (not just students) AND eliminate direct editing of assignment grades in Grades. This solution is also acceptable, but seems harder to implement, so I haven't proposed it.

tita · ‎05-25-2016

to follow up to main idea, once the fix was in place, each school would need to do some work to allow an instructor to enter a course grade into the school's SIS Schools build a direct integration to send grades to their SIS by SIS ID, without visually displaying identifiable information to instructors. OR Schools insert a SIS-generated blind grading ID (specific to course section AND student) into the Grades table and the exported csv if possible (We would not rely on an integration that sends Canvas grades to our SIS our user research into instructor grading practices showed LMS gradebooks rarely offer enough control for instructors to fine tune calculations, such as drop lowest grade, etc.; most do their calculations offline.) Also, I’m not sure if all schools with anonymous grading also have non-anonymous components to the course grade such as papers or participation, but we do. Since we have courses within a subaccount that have anonymous final exams in one section and non-anonymous papers ( written in lieu of taking an exam) in another section, as well as a participation component for about half of the courses, that school's registrar will need to send a correspondence tables tying student to their blind grading ID for appropriate sections at appropriate times. This names-ID correspondence could be sent manually through email or, if Canvas had this feature built in, names could be released per section within Grades.

tita · ‎05-25-2016

Use case: Our Law school gives exams that must be anonymously graded by the instructors. The "Hide Names" feature in Gradebook didn't stick, because it could be turned off. In Dec 2015, Canvas released Canvas Studio: Anonymous Grading (hereafter called "AG"), which allows the account admin to lock all assignments in an account, subaccount (department) or course to be anonymously graded; this can only be turned off by an account admin. Although it is tantalizingly close, turning on AG alone does not guarantee anonymity to students using Assignments and Quizzes and we are unable to take advantage of it. The solution described below is a more detailed and prescriptive version of Completely Anonymous Grading, Persistently Blind Grading which is up for a vote through August 3, so if it appeals to you, please vote for Completely Anonymous Grading, Persistently Blind Grading! Problem: Once Assignments are graded, scores appear within Grades next to student name and other IDs, and appear in the Exported CSV. An instructor can look in Grades or the csv to find grades next to student names and return back to Speedgrader and adjust them while an assignment is muted. They could also import changes or directly edit grades in Grades. As far as I can tell, there isn't an audit trail for this, as advertised on Canvas Studio: Anonymous Grading. Proposed Solution: While we are not supposed to propose solutions, I believe this one is the most flexible to various use cases: Turning on the AG feature should hide student names and other identifiable IDs (SIS ID, Canvas ID, etc.) within the Grades table and exported csv. The Search field and Individual View>Content Selection should also be removed when AG is on. P.S. There is another identity leak: When Anonymous Grading is on, don't add student name to filename in bulk downloaded files which comes up for a vote on June 1-- Please vote for both so AG can be truly "Anonymous!"

tita · ‎04-18-2016

Tap/click map to enlarge Keli Amann Stanford University - HigherEd Canvas can hide student identities from teaching assistants during grading, but not from instructors and not from uploaded work. We are building a tool for our law school to allow their students to submit work tied to a blind grading ID, which will enable instructors to grade work without knowing who submitted it.

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