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Problem statement: Basic usage: Especially for open response questions, I find it helpful to grade all student responses one question at a time. However, I just tried doing this with the new quiz interface that had 4 open-response questions, and I ended up losing most of my comments and grades for questions 1 through 3 because I had spent too long without saving my progress. The problem seems to be that currently... * Comments and grades on individual questions are stored in the browser cache, and are not submitted to the server until you hit the "Update" button for a given student. * If you go back and forth between students, the browser is happy to keep all that information for you, but if you go too long, you may lose your session (?). In my case, I got a red message that said something about not having authorization to perform a certain action (I was just switching students at the time). * Now that I know it works this way, I know to only grade one question at a time for 10 or 15 students at a time, so I can lock in their results before wandering off to do other important tasks. Additional use case: For larger exams, I usually distribute different questions to different TA's to grade, so that we can maintain better consistency across all (100+) students. The current setup for the new quizzes would require a TA to always go hit the Update button at the bottom of the quiz each time they move to a new question. For long quizzes/exams, that's rather tedious.   Proposed solution: I have 3 solutions at different stages of effort/utility. Post a warning the first time a user navigates to another student without pressing the Update button to warn them that the information is only saved temporarily until they hit the Update button. At least this way nobody gets surprised and wastes hours of work. Provide a button that allows any information updated across students to be saved, regardless of which student you're on. Provide an alternate mode of grading that is specifically built for a grade-per-question workflow. This could be done by reusing the existing interface but only showing one question per student, or you might consider creating a new page that lists the answers of maybe 4 or 10 students at time, and allows you to work page by page through student responses, saving comments and grades for them in small batches.   User role(s): instructor,ta ... View more

I used the "Copy to..." feature on a Quiz twice, after editing the first copy of it, and it merged/mangled the first version instead of making a second (I was splitting an exam into two parts). I understand this is "expected" on your end, but it is not expected by users who otherwise found the interface very intuitive. I don't appreciate the notion that I should be expected to read all the documentation for the product if I don't want to be surprised in an irreversible way. It is not good design, particularly when there are safeguards that the development team could have taken. There should at least be a warning message with a chance for us to back out of the operation. Otherwise, just fix the problem (you can do it, because you already do if the quiz happens to be from the same course--I tried it, and it made a separate copy)! ... View more