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Thank you for the detailed response.  I do appreciate the time and effort you put into it. ... View more

Hi Chris, So then I am hearing that the needs of teachers, writing teachers specifically, don't align with the roadmap objectives. Perhaps that is because there is a logical break in the process. Discovery must occur and there is no discussion about the exigence of the discovery phase. It sounds like a business model problem that determines where it will go and then looks for evidence that supports the pre-existing decisions.   Perhaps this is not true .  . but it sure looks that way from my seat in the room. We should not have to hire lobbyists or create ad campaigns to get our issues fairly considered. It isn't even that big of an ask. Best, Joseph ... View more

The fact that this thread is so old is horrific. It has been logically expressed and laid out, even mocked up in the initial comment. Please send someone out to find other threads on the Peer review topic and then perhaps a consolidation can be done through a category creation for peer review or assignment feedback or something. The need is out here and it is real. If the only metric that is used for action is popularity then Canvas is doing in wrong.   Thanks, ... View more

Should we hire someone to come in and post inappropriate content here so we can report them . . . and actually GET SOMEONE TO LOOK AT THIS THREAD!?! ... View more

Please, in the name of all that is good and pure in this world, make this happen! As a writing teacher that assigns lots of peer reviews, this is something I have needed since I started using Canvas in 2014. The peer review due date could be displayed to students in association with the assign peer reviews executable command. the assigning of the peer reviews should trigger the display of the review and date in the To Do and the Assignment summary on the syllabus page as well as kicking out an assignment notification for students who have them setup. Have I said please enough? No? Please build this feature. For the band? (think Scott Pilgrim) For the band? Seriously though, P L E A S E. ... View more

I place links to files that my students can download in the text of the assignment instructions. Automatic preview (inline or overlay) confuses my students. they want to download the document that might be a worksheet or a template but the overlay looks , to them, like a workspace for that document BUT they cannot edit it in the preview. They become confused, frustrated, and even angry. I get emails no matter which of these "mandatory fun" options I choose to use. I do not mind the emails so much but what I do mind is students dropping my class because of their problems in Canvas that I have no power to correct. Please let me give my students the materials they need without making them open multiple windows and find hidden download controls. Kill the preview. Anything that instructors want to be previewed can be embedded. ... View more

Why isn't there a control for color opacity in the Options drop down?   ... View more

Please consider what peer review is used for. The author of a submission needs feedback. They also need time to integrate feedback into their revision drafts. If there is no feedback to work with the author suffers. The lack of a due date on peer review activities excludes the activity from the mental workflow scheduling. With no trigger to begin or end the activity of peer review, the Panic Monster does not awaken to drive away the Instant Gratification Monkey and let the Rational Decision Maker take over! (Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | TED Talk )   A due date for (and possibly a participation point ) for peer review could drastically improve the odds of every writer getting some feedback . . . and improve the chances of receiving it in time to make proper use of it. Placing an end date in the same area that the peer review assignment time/day control already exists would be a boon to writers in Canvas courses. ... View more

Please consider what peer review is used for. The author of a submission needs feedback. They also need time to integrate feedback into their revision drafts. If there is no feedback to work with the author suffers. The lack of a due date on peer review activities excludes the activity from the mental workflow scheduling. With no trigger to begin or end the activity of peer review, the Panic Monster does not awaken to drive away the Instant Gratification Monkey and let the Rational Decision Maker take over! (Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | TED Talk )   A due date for (and possibly a participation point ) for peer review could drastically improve the odds of every writer getting some feedback . . . and improve the chances of receiving it in time to make proper use of it. Placing an end date in the same area that the peer review assignment time/day control already exists would be a boon to writers in Canvas courses. ... View more

Discussion boards have been  used for a long time. It is time for the educative value of the discussion board to be increased. Students with busy schedules need due dates for everything in order to effectively manage each item. If a discussion board calls for an initial post to answer a question or explore a topic and asks for proper discussion among students on that topic; we need the option of sets of due dates.   One due date is for the initial post. The due date serve as the expression of an opinion or knowledge. this cut off could provide a window in which responses to posts were locked out so that the discussion could take place in a second window of time:akin to the peer review window for other assignments. The closing of the first post window  could unlock the second window or a separate time and date could be set so that students could have ample time to answer the prompt and then ample time to review and comment upon peer posts.   I hope the value of these discreet windows is evident but if it is not allow me to offer a scenario or two: Malique works two jobs and goes to school halftime. He needs to know when every element is due so that he can plan his week and set aside appropriate amounts of time to complete each activity. The due date says January 22nd at 11:59pm so he logs on at 9:00pm on the 22nd and posts. He then finds that many other posts are available to comment upon and chooses 2 to which he will respond. He has participated fully, but what benefit did his peers receive from his amazing post? When he checks back later and discovers no responses to his post does he feel validated or abandoned? Suzanne is a traditional student who likes to get things done early. She logs on the day the discussion is released and makes her post. There is nobody else to respond to yet so she logs off and schedules the rest of her week. When Suzanne logs in on the due date just before the deadline because she got very busy with her 5 course load and she notices that her post has received 6 comments that are engaged with her not-quite-on track-answer, but as she scrolls down the list there are fewer and fewer.  she discovers through other posts that she misinterpreted the prompt so she says as much in the answers she deems to be better than hers.     The instructor later wonders if the responses to Suzanne's post might have been fewer if there were more choices available to comment on. Dallas a non-traditional, newly-paralyzed student is taking a full course load and engages with the discussion prompt a few days after release. They discover that they are one of the few to make a post. There are 3 posts including theirs. they do the only thing they can can do, as they have allotted this Wednesday night for this task and have no other free time due to doctor's appointments, and other course work. They comment on the two available posts and complete their involvement with that discussion board. The need for this feature is demonstrable. a due date for the initial post would gather all of the submissions and make them available for everyone to review at the same time because they understand how to work the deadlines. The input into the discussion board would theoretically be more distributed and the student generated discussion material would be more plentiful offering more opportunity for engagement in peer to peer discourse. ... View more