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Currently, when a student makes a comment on his/her submission, the teacher will receive a message for that comment via a daily/weekly digest email. However, in the teacher's mailbox, only the message saying that the student made the comment is shown, no real comment is displayed. The teacher has to click on the link "Click to view", login to Canvas (if he has not logged in yet), and go to the page that has the comment. This approach will take a lot of time if the course has many students. It would be convenient if Canvas can display the students' submission comment text fully in the teachers' daily/weekly digest emails so that the teachers can just have a glance at all comments made by all the students without logging in to Canvas and deciding which one he/she will respond by clicking on the "Click to view" link. ... View more

With the assessment late policy feature, Gradebook 2.0 removes the burden which our lecturers have to deduct the mark for late submission manually. The late submissions are identified automatically (with calculations of late hours/ days) and marks are deducted accordingly.   However, we found that the current Canvas Gradebook 2.0 late policy setting does not meet our institution policy. Canvas calculates the penalty point based on the full mark/ point possible of the assignment (Link to Gradebook 2.0 late policy) while our institution decides the penalty point are based on the awarded mark/ the mark given for each student.   An example of how our institution calculates penalty mark: Case Note's weight is 20% of the total marks (= 20 marks point possible) John is late for 2 days (10% per day) John is awarded/given 15 marks. => Penalty = 20% of 15 marks (awarded mark), not of 20 marks (weight/ point possible of the assignment).   Suggestion: Add a switch so penalties can be calculated per institutional requirements (i.e., based on marks awarded or marks possible). The switch should be set/lockable at the account/subaccount level. ... View more