Hi all!
I just wanted to provide another update (previous update here) on recent updates in the LMS based on your feedback, along with what’s still in the works.
Here’s a sampling of recent updates – and be sure to check out the What's New letter for more info!
- New Submitted indicator: Teachers can now see at a glance whether students have submitted an assignment through our new Submitted indicator. A blue background indicates an on-time submission, while a yellow indicates a late submission. Desktop users can hover over the indicator to see the date and time of submission.
- Student assignment preview: Teachers can now preview an assignment as a student would (approximately) see it through See student preview. This feature is in direct response to the feedback we heard from you about needing a view that felt comfortable screensharing or projecting with your classes.
- Keyboard shortcuts for gradebook: Teachers can once again type M, X, I, and now C in the gradebook for Missing, Exempt, Incomplete, and Collected.
- Discussion replies: Discussions now show all of a student’s responses — original posts and replies to others — in discussion details. We also added back an indicator showing the number of discussion posts a student has made. As a plus, there’s a color-change for on-time vs. late posting, and you can hover over the indicator to see how many of the posts are original posts versus replies to others.
- Easier assignment scrolling: In assignment details, the header for the assignment is no longer “sticky” on the page, allowing more space to evaluate and view student work.
- Performance summary: As of today, performance summary is back in the gradebook! From the assignment column header dropdown, select See performance summary to access the same grade and submission statistics as last year. We are excited to bring back this functionality to the gradebook, and we appreciate your feedback around its importance.
- Add discussion from gradebook: As of today, you can add a Discussion from the gradebook! We look forward to expanding the Add functionality further moving forward.
And here’s what’s in the works:
- Updating date-picker to highlight the days teachers’ classes meet
- Deleting an assignment from the gradebook
- Updating commenting to reduce risk of leaving comments unsaved, based on your feedback
- Restoring the ability to add an overall comment for an assessment
- Seeing a full discussion thread through Student preview
- Accessing student submissions directly from the gradebook
- Faster navigation from student to student on assignment details
- Making email notifications for Google Drive submissions optional
- And much more!
Once again, we are so appreciative of your ongoing feedback. In the coming week or two, you will notice that that the “We’ve made some changes!” Box on My Day will be removed, but we’ll be providing some new ways to keep the lines of communication for feedback open. Stay tuned.
With appreciation,
Ben
