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but of course this request has been here since literally 2015, so clearly it will never get fixed. what kind of a service do you think you are offering if it's a learning management system and students cannot easily view the feedback from their teachers... you know, to aid their learning? ... View more

Dear canvas, why haven't you fixed this yet. are you trying to wear us down? cause us to give up on everything? this is the most basic thing: letting students view the feedback. it should be the most pressing project right now. Nothing else. FIX IT PLZZZZZZZ. ... View more

OH MY GOSH YES!!!  Can't believe this hasn't been corrected a long time ago. Nice to realize I'm not alone; I just found out where to even go to make feature requests. Below I'll copy in the request I posted somewhere else in Canvas' forums./ (Also, I'll point out that the early response to the OP "that the Community focus their feature ideas.  Please focus this idea down to one" is ludicrous. Our job, as teachers and users of Canvas, is not to fit into the Canvas Inc. Corporate Feature-Request Workflow Model. Our job is not to do Canvas Inc.'s product development job. If we as users are offering Canvas free, useful feedback on our experience and frustrations with the product, Canvas needs to be able to take it from there and handle splitting requests into the right chunks for their internal workflows.) Anyway. Here's what I suggested elsewhere, which is exactly the same complaint many are reporting here: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Can you PLEASE make it easier for students to view annotations that I've made on their assignments? There's that tiny little "view feedback" button if they first click the right button to view their submission. This is not the way high school students work. When they open the assignment they need to very obviously see their submission, and any feedback/annotations I provide need to load automatically and be staring at them.   The kids are not software developers. I mean, they create a Google Doc, upload it to Canvas, and expect my Canvas feedback to be appearing in their original Google Doc. You CANNOT expect kids to click a tiny button that says "view feedback" —they are constantly telling me they didn't see my annotations or even when they go looking for them they're "not there." (Actually, it's more accurate to put this all in the past tense because I've stopped providing feedback within Canvas this way because they simply don't see it.)   You will probably say that they should follow all your workflow steps, but if you think about it, the kids who have trouble remembering all these steps or don't even notice the button are probably more likely to be the kids who need to see my feedback annotations in the first place. The ones who are good at following all the arbitrary directions and right steps to view the feedback are more likely to be the ones who are doing things right in the first place. I'm surprised this sort of information didn't arise in your user-testing beforehand.   Thanks for your consideration.      ... View more

I recently created a new quiz but then it would not show up in the list when I tried to create an internal link to it on an activity page. I had to rebuild the whole thing as a regular quiz in order to link to it within a page. I could have added it as a standalone activity in the module, but probably better I created a whole new regular quiz since maybe the kids wouldn't have been able to see it. Oh, hooray. ... View more

Definitely still a problem—I just posted this question also before seeing that others have too: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Question-Forum/Why-do-highlight-annotations-overwrite-redact-text-in-student/m-p/410338#M144189  ... View more