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On the iPad, when you add a comment to a pin while annotating student work, Canvas Teacher deletes all your comment text with no warning message if you click on "Done" without first clicking on the up-arrow icon to the right of the text.  I only discovered this after writing many comments on many assignments, and receiving a message from a student that there were no comments associated with the pins on their submission.  I didn't even realize the up-arrow was a button. Why the need to to click twice to save a comment?  Why no warning message when evidently unsaved text is about to be deleted. Note that this works completely differently in the desktop version, where you just need to type a carriage return to save the comment and exit back to the document.  One reason that it never occurred to me to think the iPad version would have this problem. ... View more

Words cannot express how angry I am, having graded for the first time using Canvas Teacher on my iPad.  On the computer version, adding comments to a pin is straightforward.  You write the comment, type return, it's saved, you move on. Grading on my iPad, I wrote my comment and clicked on the big "Done" at the top of the commenting pane — and then moved on.  Comment after comment, on assignment after assignment. Every commnt is gone.  Apparently, for no obvious reason, you need to first click on the non-standard up-arrow-in-a-circle icon to the right of the typing field first, and only then click Done, or else your text silently disappears without a trace.  No error message, no notification, no warning, just gone. Why?  Why the unnecessary two steps to save your comment?  But given that both steps are necessary, why is there no warning message when you click "Done" with text in the texrt field, without having first clicked the up-arrow? Speechless.    ... View more

When grading in the Canvas Teacher app on the iPad, I can push the grades-comments-files pane out of the way in portrait view.  But the minute I rotate the iPad to landscape, it becomes a pane taking up 1/3 of the screen — and I can't see any way to minimize it.  This makes landscape view, which I prefer, almost useless. Am I missing something? ... View more