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Qwickly tools are great, but if I have to enter a course in order to use them (let alone add them to the course navigation bar) then it's creating pointless extra steps. Let's make Qwickly available on the global navigation, or at least on the dashboard, where it can be of most use and easily visible.  ... View more

I'd like to give both faculty and students the option to re-order the items on their To Do list in terms of their personal priority. As an instructor (and I assume a student) we have the option to remove an item from the list, but not re-order them.  For an example:  I would like to be able to set the order of my to-do list based on the grading needs and which need to be turned around the quickest.  As students, they should have the ability to prioritize assignments for classes in the order they need to be completed based on their own schedule and demands, not <only> based on submission deadline. An additional benefit would be the option to "pin" or "star" assignments with priority levels (high, standard, and low) for increased visibility.  As someone with ADHD, the giant list of in-progress work can be incredibly difficult to process, and I end up being repetitive and creating my own list in terms of priority, which defeats the purpose of the feature.  ... View more

New Quizzes have a lot of quirks that need to be ironed out. One of which is the regrade option. As is, if you need to regrade a whole class, you'd need to do so manually for each student. The process is also time consuming. Here are the directions I received from Canvas Support for this issue:  "To do this you will go into the quiz, and then click on the moderate tab. Then for each student, you will click on their attempt. then click into the score area for one of the questions, and then click out, and then click the update scores at the bottom. This will pass the updated grade to the gradebook for that student." Helpful, but way too much time. We need a simple button that allows for regrading options, whether full class full quiz, full class single questions, or something else.  ... View more

When we assign students a peer review in canvas, they do not have access to the speedgrader. What they end up with is a slightly clunky assortment of pop-out windows for viewing/annotating and the rubric, necessitating a lot of back and forth side-scrolling and switching between windows. For students who already have trouble navigating an online course, this is an unnecessary barrier to an already nerve-wracking assignment. We have the ability to use speedgrader. Hopefully we can give our students that power too, or at least better design a side-by-side rubric/annotation system for peer review, like in the speedgrader.  ... View more