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I think this may have been mentioned in a previous post or two. It would be very helpful to have a small number of preset filters for instructors to utilize (and perhaps have available as examp... |
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Gradebook History for Final Grade Override Currently, with the new Gradebook, there is the Final Grade Override option. For all columns, other than Final Grade Override in Grades that receive a score (Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions),... |
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03-28-2023
12:04 PM
I think this may have been mentioned in a previous post or two. It would be very helpful to have a small number of preset filters for instructors to utilize (and perhaps have available as examples to modify). One would certainly be a filter for ungraded assignments. This is especially helpful at the end of a term where final grades are submitted and any ungraded items (items with a hyphen "-" in the cell) get converted to zeroes. This filter would make finding and correcting those cells much easier. I'm sure the community here would have additional suggestions for preset filters.
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12-07-2021
03:43 PM
I believe that this can be accomplished using the Settings -> Participation within a course shell. Change from Term to Course and adjust the start end dates/times. When done with the blackout period, switch back to Term. We have prepared a knowledge base article on this process, though not specifically for instructors to create blackout periods.
https://kb.ucdavis.edu/?id=6155
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07-20-2021
11:32 AM
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I can certainly understand and appreciate the garden/gardening analogy, as it is certainly appropriate for software development and evolution, as well as many other things in life.
I certainly would not like to use or support software that becomes bloatware, where the core ages poorly with oh too many bolt-on shiny rhinestones. For me, I certainly hope that the team at Instructure can focus on the intrinsic functionality that we fell in love with and have come to appreciate over the years. A garden is useless unless you have quality soil, watering infrastructure, shovel, trowel, hoe, and so on.
Make the core tools amazingly functional, beat out any remaining bugs or deficiencies, and tastefully grow the functionality. Avoid acquiring companies that have no hope of adding value. Teachers, faculty, support staff, and to some extent students all appreciate predictability and consistency. They all expect that there will be change, but are not ready to switch overnight to hydroponic gardening.
Thank you Shaun, for being a voice of reason and adding soul to the products.
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02-22-2021
08:43 AM
@jsailor I would like to, along with many of my colleagues, offer my appreciation in your group's decision to place the Ungraded as Zero feature behind a flag. This option will allow all of us in the UC Davis teaching and learning community to keep rolling along without undue chaos.
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02-08-2021
10:36 AM
Forgive my cynicism here, but when I hear, "...the feedback that we receive from various outlets, including the many conversations that we have with the educators using Canvas on a daily basis." I wonder just who @jsailor and other product managers that are focused on the treat ungraded as zero feature are talking to. It is certainly not me nor any of my faculty. Has anyone else in this thread had somebody from Instructure reach out to have a conversation about treat ungraded as zero?
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02-08-2021
10:05 AM
@chriscas
Thank you for presenting the situation so beautifully. At UC Davis we completely share your sentiments about how we are all trying to make these comments constructive and how they are largely being ignored by Instructure because "the railroad must go through here regardless of the collateral damage". I am not looking forward to a feature being enabled in a manner which clearly is not welcome by most admins or large institutional Instructure customers.
-Steve Faith, Canvas admin and Service Lead
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01-19-2021
02:44 PM
View Ungraded as Zero is a feature that will generate a GREAT deal of confusion with our instructors and generates a lot of churn and support tickets when it comes time for final grade submission. Please reconsider this feature or <preferably> turn this into a feature flag so we can decide school-by-school/institution-by-institution whether this would be valuable for our community of users.
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11-10-2020
09:04 AM
MathJax is immensely important as an accessibility tool for some of our students. It would be nice to know in which tools it is functional and in which tools it is not so that we can communicate and set expectations with our instructors. The only way we know this is to thoroughly test for MathJax in every instance of RCE availability after each deploy. I am hoping that Instructure sees this testing/QA as a responsibility that should housed within the Instructure organization and not the responsibility of the educational institution or the end users. Thank you @erinhmcmillan for letting us know about the lack of MathJax support in Quizzes (assuming both Classic and New quizzes).
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05-06-2020
01:48 PM
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I wonder if Instructure has any staff that are in touch with the companies or developer communities for the various web browsers. When I worked for Apple, we had a developer program where we would notify our developers months ahead of any release, would detail the exact changes to the various software components (including the Safari Web Browser), and release beta software to test against. By the reactive instead of proactive response from Instructure, my initial guess is that for a company who completely relies on the functionality of web browsers for the success of their products, there is nobody in the INST engineering group that is liaising with Apple, Google, Mozilla, or Microsoft. I would love to be wrong about this assumption.
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05-01-2020
10:47 AM
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Matt, please go back and re-read your first paragraph above. You are implying that admins, instructional designers, and course coordinators do not care about "modifying user behavior" and that is why Confetti does not resonate with them. I think that you might want to get more familiar with the admins, instructional designers, and course coordinators at many of the Higher Ed accounts that are using Canvas, as you will find that for the most part, they are *VERY* interested in improving education, instructor development, and making classrooms better learning places. Best, -Steve Faith
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10-04-2019
09:11 AM
Absolutely correct, Gary. There should always be accountability and the capability to audit, if necessary, any and all grading by all individuals authorized to do so. The New Gradebook with Final Grade Override fails in this respect and ABSOLUTELY has to be corrected before we will begin using it.
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04-10-2019
01:12 PM
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Currently, with the new Gradebook, there is the Final Grade Override option. For all columns, other than Final Grade Override in Grades that receive a score (Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions), there is an entry in Gradebook History which indicates who and when the entry/change was made. The Final Grade Override column does not create an entry in history when a value is entered or changed.
Having an audit trail for all changes made to any grades in the Grades tool is important not only for accountability, but also to track down an potential errors in grade entry - especially when a course may have multiple individuals capable of making grade changes for a student.
Adding the Final Grade Override column as an entry in Gradebook History will bring consistency and needed auditing to the new grade book.
This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas
For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-10-21).
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11-08-2018
02:55 PM
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Thank you Christi and Erin. I appreciate you sharing the reasoning behind the changes. So does this mean that when I "favorite" a resource in Commons, other people can also see that the item has been "favorited" and thus becomes an indicator of value on that resource for the community at large?
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11-06-2018
02:54 PM
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Perhaps I am confused about the Commons LTI changes. To me, it seems that the new "Favorite" is not a replacement for the 5-star rating system. If I am favorite-ing a resource, that will only appear to me for purposes of finding those items at a later time/date. The 5-star system was the only way I am aware of for winnowing the grain from the chaff (i.e. figuring out the quality material from the garbage). If this a fundamental change or am I missing something?
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