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For four years people have been asking for this feature, explaining how it would add value to teaching & learning, alluding to educational best practices, etc and we're only to this idea being listed as Open for Conversation?  Yes, it's a step up from us all having the conversation by ourselves; at least we can hope that Instructure may be listening to some degree now but this, this is very aggravating. There is already a way to create rubrics, lots of rubrics.  There are tons of options within those rubrics for whether or not the items are for a grade, for Learning Mastery, tied to a specific Outcome.  Why can't the rubric functionality be altered to allow for self-assessment?  Beyond that how great would it be if we could require students to complete a self-assessment as a step immediately before submitting their uploaded files? Many of us encourage our students to take a look at the rubric before submitting, many have stated that they would print out the rubric and provide a hardcopy for the students to use.  In the current age of so much happening online, there should be some effort to facilitate more useful functionality to occur within our LMS so we don't need to ask our students to be printing out the rubrics at home to then upload again when it's time to submit their assignment.  These extra steps require greater time, effort, and equipment for our students and can be obstacles to their progress. ... View more

Thank you @johncrisford for taking the time to respond.  I appreciate it. I have arrived at essentially the same solution and I think it'll work just fine.  I had just been hoping that the features associated with the new Webex integration would be more useful to those of us who cross-list sections.  This is another example of needing to use some sort of workaround to get Canvas to do what we want/need it to do.  I think another approach could be creating groups within Webex Teams and using the Collaborations in place of Virtual Meetings but there are some consequences of that decision that I'm not sure I'm OK with.  For example, I believe once I've set up a group in Teams, they can all meet together without me.  While that functionality could be a good thing, it's another thing for me to try to keep track of to make sure that the interactions in that space when I'm not around are appropriate and maintain academic integrity standards. ... View more

I would really like to see a self-assessment option using rubrics available in Canvas, as well.  As tamaroffjeff‌ indicated, the value of self-assessment is well documented in educational research and for educators who are interested (or are encouraged/required by their institutions to do so), it would be nice to have this implemented within the LMS we are required to use. Trying to make a workaround, I tried to manually assign a student to complete a peer review on themselves but that is disabled within Canvas.  I suppose that makes sense for anytime I ask Canvas to automatically assign peer reviews, that would be one time I am not looking for student self-assessment.  However, if an additional option for "require self-review" were to be included, I suspect the overall code would be nearly identical to the "automatically assign peer reviews" option but would select the student submitting the assignment instead of ruling them out.  Assigning both self-review and peer-review might lead to some interesting and instructive discussions to help students identify when there is a mismatch between what they believe they are communicating and what the reader perceives is actually being communicated. This isn't the first time I've thought an option was pretty much a no-brainer and wouldn't require much additional coding but doesn't seem at all that the Canvas folks are interested in implementing it.  @reedbrian ‌ ... View more

Is there a paid version anymore? Last year I asked my college to pay for the full version then the subscription was refunded after Flipgrid was purchased by Microsoft or something like that. The largest issue I'm having with Flipgrid is that students can't even see their own submissions when the topic is moderated.  Many of the assignments I assign are personal reflections.  Ideally they would be able to see their own reflections so that they can refer back to any statement that I provide specific feedback for.  Also, it would be a nice metacognitive task to have them reflect on the progress suggested by their reflections throughout the semester. ... View more

I haven't figured out why I see duplicate videos sometimes, but not all the time.  It's strange to me that I'm setting things up the same way every time, presumably my students are submitting the same way every time, and sometimes I see duplicate videos.  There are so many variables between which students are using computers, apple phones, android phones, etc that I have a hard time pinpointing any particular reason things do or don't work with Flipgrid. As far as the Canvas gradebook issue goes, as long as I have created the assignment within Canvas and show that students are submitting via an external tool (which I have linked to their Canvas page) they can see that their video was submitted.  However, for one of my Canvas courses that is actually two sections of the same course merged together, I have had to create placeholder assignments within Canvas which direct the students to go to their particular Grid to submit their recording.  Since Canvas believes there is no submission (instead of submission via an external tool), the gradebook does not automatically show that they have submitted anything.   ... View more

Oops, just read the rest of this thread and saw that somebody else addressed the now-free nature of Flipgrid. ... View more

I have used FlipGrid for my in-person classes for the last few semesters.  I like it... and I don't. In terms of integration, I thought it was pretty easy to set up the integration with Canvas.  When I created FlipGrid assignments via the integration, only the students who accessed the assignment via the link in Canvas had their gradebook show that something had been turned in.  Students accessing the assignment directly through FlipGrid may have completed the assignment but it did not show up that way in Canvas.  It created a few tense interactions with students when I initially entered 0's for non-completion according to Canvas only to find in FlipGrid that the assignment had, in fact, been completed. Via exit interviews and end-of-course surveys, students have reported that they really appreciated FlipGrid... or that they hated it and it was not a valued part of the course.  It's really a mixed bag as to how the students received it in my courses.  In my Physics classes, I had students use FlipGrid for the following types of task: (1) Retrieval Practice, a brief summary of the main ideas discussed in the class or the specific "a-ha moment(s)" associated with a particularly challenging problem, (2) Pre-thinking a problem, students explain the process they'd expect to use to solve a problem as well as their reasoning but without the burden of actually solving the problem, (3) Presentation of Solutions, for a problem that has been completely worked out students provide their reasoning/explanation/solution, (4) Check-in with instructor, students let me know how they believe they're doing in the course as well as ask specific or general questions about what we're studying.  Some students really valued the opportunity to verbalize their thoughts and recognized that these activities helped in their understanding, others felt that it was a hoop to jump through and perhaps only recognized the value in arriving at the correct numerical answer when solving a problem.  Some students refused to participate and told me that it was due to discomfort/anxiety of recording themselves.   I like that videos can be visible as it helps with building community but I did suspect that there was some "I'll watch somebody's video and paraphrase to get my points", as well.  I ended up moderating most of the videos and then featuring selected submissions so students could see some of the best examples; this was an additional burden to me because with 100 students each submitting a 3-5 minute video, I wasn't able to find the time to watch/comment/feature for every FlipGrid assignment in a timely enough manner. I also played around with a program called Notebowl and will likely continue playing with both FlipGrid and Notebowl until I decide what suits my style/needs best. ... View more

It is my understanding that the full FlipGrid package is now free to educators.  It used to be a paid service ($65/year) but now FlipGrid has been acquired by Microsoft and it's free. ... View more

Howdy, Don. I would very much like to see Canvas develop a feature that would clearly and easily allow for instructors to use custom weighting (equal or unequal depending on the wants/needs of the instructor) on a per assignment basis. There are times where I want assignments to be valued the same in the grading calculation even though they may not have the exact same number of problems/tasks/points when I initially grade them.  For those assignments, I do get frustrated that I have to use Excel to perform a pretty simple calculation in order to get that equal weighting.  If I can do this simply in Excel, why can't Canvas? For many other assignments, I want to Canvas to allow me to easily scale the weighting of assignments.  To use  @kona 's example, it would be nice if I could easily have Canvas have the project proposal worth 10 points while the final project paper be worth 100 points (or something to that effect) without having to manually calculate the grades behind the scenes in Excel. This is why I've been pitching the "out of" vs "worth" feature to be developed in Canvas because an instructor could easily communicate to Canvas how they would like an assignment to be treated within the grading calculation in Canvas.  If you want everything treated equally, set all "worth" values to be the same.  If I want to scale up/down the value of the assignment within the grading calculation, I can easily set the "worth" values to be whatever multiples of each other to suit my needs. This feature already exists in several other grading platforms.  I'm not a programmer so I don't know how difficult it would be to implement but I do know the math well enough because I'm having to program that calculation into Excel several times a semester to do what Canvas won't. Sean ... View more

So happy to see this idea reach 100 votes!  There have been so many other similar requests in the past that always fell a little (or a lot) short.  I'm optimistic that the developers will consider what has been asked in each of those requests and incorporate the most inclusive option to address what the Canvas users are asking for. As I've written several times and Duncan has recently reiterated, my opinion would be that this would be remedied most simply by having the ability to clearly and separately define two values for any assignment; out of how many points the assignment was graded, and how many points you'd like the assignment to be worth in the grade calculation. Fingers crossed this functionality will eventually find its way into my Canvas gradebook. ... View more

Very cool.  There is a currently a small movement to get more courses labeled at Writing Certified at my college and the district as a whole - I'm looking into having my Physics courses get that certification.  One major drawback is the increased volume of grading as it is expected that students will have the opportunity to submit a writing assignment for feedback, make adjustments based on that feedback, and then resubmit.  This grading feature would make it far more convenient for me to provide feedback as a read through the submission while indicating the specific locations via mouse movement, highlighting, etc.  I think this is a feature I'd take advantage of if it was developed. ... View more

Micah, if you haven't already upvoted for , please consider doing so.  We're still very short of votes for that idea and could use your support for that idea in this voting cycle. As I've written in many other places within the Canvas Community, the ability to clearly and separately define "out of" and "worth" values would be incredibly useful and I think it would address much of what I've seen others asking for.  For the life of me, I can't understand what would be so complicated about implementing this but, that said, I am not a programmer.  For the most part, any voting on these topics is happening without a great deal of discussion.  Also, from what I've seen, those who downvote a feature idea are less likely to explain why they are not supportive of the idea - Not voting to support it is one thing, downvoting is actively seeking to keep it from being implemented.  I'm curious why these features are downvoted because I'm not seeing the down side.  Also, I think some of the downvotes are coming from the programming side so maybe my lack of programming background is what is causing me to think this wouldn't be such a difficult thing to implement. ... View more

Hi, Carl Please check out which is a feature idea that is currently open for voting (until some time on April 6).  There is a discussion associated with that feature idea involving a few different ways Canvas might accomplish this functionality.  Using your example, an instructor wouldn't have to worry about playing around with the numbers at all.  If they wanted their 7 point quiz treated the same as their 35 point quiz, it would be handled by Canvas.  Then, connecting to this feature, students would be able to see how they did as a percentage instead of seeing they earned 6/7 on one quiz and 20/35 and perhaps not intuitively understanding that the 6 is much better than the 20. Sean ... View more

Thanks, Stephanie.  I'm pretty new at this so I'm not quite sure how it all works.  I had also thought I could try to wrangle some support in each group in case the needs discussed for K12 and Higher Ed were a little different and then merge the two later but joining the two now is fine, too. I appreciate all the guidance, Stephanie... and the support for the ideas. ... View more

The link above is a current feature idea that just opened for voting on January 6 - please consider supporting it.  I have tried to piggyback on this idea and add in the "out of" vs "worth" functionality.  If we're able to get the 100 votes on that idea, I hope the Instructure developers consider what I (and others) have suggested. Sean ... View more

Thanks, Stephanie. I had been thinking about doing the same thing but wasn't sure how. ... View more

Thanks for providing the link to the feature idea that is already open for voting - I just upvoted.  If we're already able to display grades on other items as percentages, I would think the ability to display quiz grades similarly would not be all that difficult to implement.  Just need to get those votes now.... ... View more

I understand, stefaniesanders​.  The feature idea in my head is evolving as a result of this dialogue, thank you. When an instructor enters an assignment's details in the Canvas gradebook, I think the "out of" and "worth" approach is very user friendly and clear.  It allows a ton of flexibility for instructors who want to be very clear in the relative weights of assignments within that group.  However, from a student's perspective, when they see they earned a 25 out of 31, that number doesn't have the same intuitive meaning as 80.65% would.  This is why you favor having everything out of 100 points, right?  This way the number the student sees is the same as the percentage on the assignment. If we could pair the "out of" & "worth" functionality AND the ability to display grades as percentages, this would address both issues.  The instructor would not have to manipulate point values, could clearly define relative weighting for each assignment, AND students would be able to see how they did on each assignment in a way that they are more likely to understand. Would this work?  I want to make sure I have as complete an understanding as possible before I write up a feature idea (or try to join up with an existing one) so I can be clear in what I am asking for and others are clear about how beneficial it would be for them (so hopefully they'll upvote it). I look forward to continuing this dialogue, Stephanie and, at the same time, I encourage others to join in and make this a wider discussion. ... View more

stefaniesanders​, I believe having the option to separately define values for how many points the percentage is calculated from (an "out of" value) and how many points you want the assignment to be valued at when calculating the student's grade (a "worth" value) would meet your needs.  This was an idea proposed in the last voting cycle but it just didn't gain enough of a following to make it happen. In your "Quizzes" group, you're already able to set the weight at 20%.  If you wanted to have three quizzes in that group and wanted their weights to be 20%, 30% and 50% within that grouping, you could enter each of those grades "out of" any number of points - it really wouldn't matter.  You would then enter their "worth" values as 20, 30, and 50, respectively.  As long as those three numbers add up to 100, you'd be all set.  It would also be simple to alter those relative weights within the category if you felt it was necessary.  You'd simply change those "worth" values to the new amounts you want (again, they should add up to 100) and you'd be done.  You wouldn't have to do any recalculating on your own. Given the current functionality, you probably need to play with the total amount of points of each item.  Quiz 1 might be listed as 100 points.  For Quiz 2 to have the weight that you want, you'd set that to be 150 points.  Quiz 3 would then need to be set at 250 points.  To come up with the scores that you'd enter in the gradebook, you would have to calculate the percentage the student earned on that particular assignment then multiply that percentage by 100... 150... or 250 depending on which quiz it was for.  This would also accomplish what you're looking for with relative weighting within an assignment group but it I feel that it isn't especially user friendly.  And, if you wanted to tweak the relative percentages for some reason, you'd have to change the values back into percentages before recalculating new numbers.  ... View more