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What @Mary-EllenWalte  said. Adding a rubric to an assignment means that you want to use that rubric for grading so this box should be checked as the default behavior. Allow it to be unchecked, sure, but default to checked to save us all a ton of time. Thank you. ... View more

Dumb user question here but I do not see this option on an individual student's grade page. And I cannot find info about it in the release notes linked above.  Thanks in advance for helping me find this - Erin ... View more

My Canvas admin just spent many days trying to help me create a workaround to mimic the function that I think is being requested here. My scenario: Students must complete two assignments by Thursday of week 1 to be considered "on track". So what I really need is a way to look at both assignment statuses and send each student one of four different messages: 1) Yay! You've completed both assignments. What a great way to start this course! 2) Good start! You've completed assignment A but you also need to complete assignment B to be on track in this course. Please complete it before Friday evening. 3) Good start! You've completed assignment B but you also need to complete assignment A to be on track in this course.  4) Let's talk! There were two assignments due last night and you did not complete either one of you. What is can I do to remove the roadblock that is keeping you from moving forward in this class? In Bb, I would just add a non-student-visible, non-graded column in the gradebook and give each student a "code" of 1 to 4 depending on their status. I could then message based on that code. That's what I asked my admin to help me do in Canvas. Adding such a column and using this way is pretty much impossible, as far we can tell.  Soooo ... I fully support the ability to message students based on the status of more than one column. Knowing what I know about databases, I think that creating this functionality will be very challenging. Should that be the case, can you please just let us add a "dummy" column, as we could do in Bb, to use for whatever purpose we need? ... View more

To be clear, we need this visibility from both the Rubric view and the Assignments view. For Assignments, an icon should appear next to any assignment item listed on the Assignments page that indicates if there is a rubric attached to that Assignment (or not). This should apply to discussions, TurnItIn assignments as well as standard Canvas assignments. Reasons:   1) To confirm that I have attached a rubric to a discussion, I have to click into each discussion. I recently "cleaned up" a rubric I use for almost all discussions in multiple courses. In the process, the rubric was removed from some of the Discussions but not from all. I had to look at each one to confirm that the correct rubric was attached (click discussion, click view rubric times 16).   2) To confirm that I have a rubric attached to a TurnItIn Assignment, and to see which rubric it is, I have to unlink TII from the assignment then view the assignment. Then I have to re-link TII to the assignment. Cumbersome.    Adding an icon to the Assignment items page that quickly shows us if a rubric was attached, just like we can quickly see if each Assignment is published, would be a great help.  And if I hovered over that icon, it would be ideal to see the name of the rubric which is attached. ... View more