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I didn't want my idea merged into this one. These are distinct issues so the merge is unhelpful. Can you please unmerge.  ... View more

This comment was originally posted as its own feature request but was merged into this one.  Original Feature Request Title: Hidden grades icon in Total column of Gradebook should only appear when grades are hidden The hidden grades icon (or hidden eye icon; referred to as Visibility icon in the Canvas guides) in the Total column of the Gradebook for a student should only appear when there are grades hidden for that student. The message that appears when you click on the Visibility icon says "This grade differs from the student's view of the grade because some assignment grades are not yet posted":  In actuality, the grade in the screenshot above does not differ from the student's view of the grade because all available grades are in fact posted and available for viewing by the student. Additionally, if you scroll through the full Gradebook for this course, there are only a couple assignment columns with the hidden grade icon in the header, yet this particular student has no grades entered yet for any such assignments. According to Canvas Support, the following scenarios will cause the Visibility icon and the accompanying message to appear in the Total column for a student (these scenarios are what was causing the Visibility icon to appear in the screenshot above): Scenario 1: The student has been left submissions comments, but no grade as of yet, for an assignment. The assignment is set to a manual posting policy and the instructor hasn't clicked "Post Grades" yet for the assignment. Again, no grade was actually given, so it appears to me that no grade could be hidden in this scenario; thus, I'm not understanding why this would cause the hidden grades icon to appear in the Total column. Scenario 2: A quiz with at least one essay question has not yet been graded. As we know, in order for a quiz to be considered as graded, all individual questions must be graded by the instructor. If an instructor has not yet graded the essay questions of a student's submitted quiz, the Assignment icon appears in the Gradebook for that student, indicating that their "submission that needs to be graded" as per this guide: How do I use the icons and colors in the Gradebook?. If the quiz in question needs to be graded (no grade given yet, as in Scenario 1), and the Visibility icon is not appearing in the header of the corresponding column of the Gradebook, it is not clear at all to faculty that this quiz would cause the Visibility icon to appear in the Total column.  All in all, the Visibility icon in the Total column and the accompanying message should really only appear if the impacted student has assignment grades that are hidden, and if what the message is saying is actually true. Unfortunately, as it stands now, there's no easy or quick way for faculty (or even Canvas admins) to tell which assignments could be causing a Visibility icon to appear in the Total column, making this issue even more difficult to deal with.  ... View more

Besides differentiating between rubrics from current and all other courses, it would also be helpful to label each course with the term that they were taught in. We recently received outreach from a faculty member expressing frustration with figuring out which of her rubrics was the most recently updated version. There's no way to differentiate between the courses in the Find a Rubric list since course codes sometimes will not change from semester to semester/year to year, see screenshot below:     It would also be helpful if the classes could be listed in chronological order according to their term. ... View more