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samuel_cheng1 · ‎03-28-2021

Same problem here. Check the "use this rubric for grading" box. Use the Canvas Teacher App on an iPad Pro for grading. It shows the points added up but the total score is not saved. It is over three years after @plostroh posted the bug! Canvas definitely has too many "Community Coaches" but too few actual programmers to fix its pathetic software.

samuel_cheng1 · ‎11-03-2020

I am amazed that the current late policy by Canvas is a complete fault. If I misunderstand the situation, please correct me. I want to have a small deduction of 5% per day, but after 10 days, a student will still get something if he submits his assignment. So naturally, the "Late submission deduction percentage" is 5% per day. And "Lowest possible grade percentage" set to 50%. This sounds reasonable, right? No, what I get is if a student was late for 10 days and only did half of the homework, he won't be penalized at all. Canvas' "logic" is to deduct 5% (of the total points but not the actual points of the homework) per day. And then if the award score is less than 50%, it is not going to deduct anything. I don't understand how it makes any sense to Canvas's developers. For example, if the assignment's total point is 100 points and the student submits more than 10 days late with an assignment half complete, shouldn't his points be 50 * 50% = 25 points. At the moment, it just doesn't seem to have a way to do that. Actually, the student will not be penalized at all and got 50%. So he has no incentive to complete the entire homework. Because doing the entire homework will also get him 50 points only. Canvas team. Please address this.

samuel_cheng1 · ‎10-13-2020

This 10+ steps procedure to simply duplicate a quiz question does NOT really solve the issue. Canvas by far has the most ridiculous UI of any web app I used in the last decade. I feel like using something created before 2000. If it is not some kind of monopoly, it should have been bankrupted long time ago.

samuel_cheng1 · ‎09-22-2020

I appreciate the commend a lot and clicked it as an accepted solution by accident. How do I undo it?

samuel_cheng1 · ‎09-06-2020

The concept of SpeedGrader is good. But the execution is done rather poorly. To begin with, it is very stupid that one has to confirm each annotation and there is no reminder at all if you did not do so. Sometimes I graded half of the assignments and realized that nothing was saved. It is a terrible design fault. Since one can easily remove annotation, why one should confirm an annotation by default? I am not even sure it is a deliberate design feature or really just a bug.

samuel_cheng1 · ‎09-06-2020

Something I really hate is the Speed Grader. The concept is good. Just ignore the fact it is quite buggy (I usually use a stylus to write directly and I never finished grading one assignment without issues.) But the most irratating part is that it does not save annotation by default. It is very stupid that one has to confirm each annotation and there is no reminder at all. Sometimes I graded half of the assignment and realized that nothing was saved. It is a terrible design fault. Since one can easily remove annotation, why one should confirm an annotation by default? I am not even sure it is a deliberate design feature or really just a bug.

samuel_cheng1 · ‎04-26-2020

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, it is too late for the first possibility since it is the end of the semester and we have graded almost everything. I don't quite understand the second approach. And we already have assignments put into groups (and some assignment groups for the grad section and some for undergrad section). Will the approach still work in this case? I originally thought it should be some simple feature. Just don't understand why such simple thing becomes so complicated...

samuel_cheng1 · ‎04-25-2020

I know it have been asked before. But there was no actual solution and the question has already been closed. I have a course with both graduate and undergrad section. The graduate section has an extra task and so its total points are 120 instead of 100. I would like to have a different grading scheme for the grad section. Or maybe somehow automatically scale points for the grad section before computing grade. Any possible workaround?

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