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On the Assignments - grading Discussions is very clunky - the header on the assignment takes up almost the entire browser window on a 17" laptop (all our teacher use laptops and docking stations - so most do grading on laptops). The discussion window only allow a couple of lines of text - making the browser font smaller you can barely read the discussion. A collapse of the assignment header would be a GREAT function!

Sylvie Andrews:
On a similar topic, in the Gradebook itself, the new view doesn't allow teachers to scroll all the way to the bottom of their list of students if they have more than about 12 kids in the class. Anyone past the 12th student or so will be "below the fold" of the page (i.e. cut off by the bottom of the screen), and there is no way to scroll down to view them at most standard resolutions. I don't just mean that there is no scroll bar "handle" for scrolling, I also mean that using the two-finger scroll on my trackpad won't get me there. The list sort of scrolls a bit, then behaves as though it's reached the end of the list (even though I know there are more), and "bounces" the list to indicate I can't scroll further.

This happens at most standard resolutions for our 13" faculty MacBooks, for instance mine is currently at 1536 x 960 resolution in Safari and I had to use the browser's View > Zoom Out option, twice, to be able to see the 13th, 14th, 15th, students in the list.

I found that I was only able to see the rest of my students once I added an assignment. Once I added the first assignment, a vertical scrollbar showed up that allowed me to see the rest of the students.

My teachers are reporting when adding comments it wipes the grades out - even after committing first, then making a comment later. This is annoying because they have to remember what the grade was that the comment wiped out. NOTE when making a comment the Grade is showing in the Evaluate assignment window is there but upon saving the grade is removed. I have reported to Support - even took a video of what's happening - and I get “We can't recreate the issue.” That seems to be their response lately.

@Kathy Hannon - I saw the same behavior and submitted a case (018485584) with video.

I also saw: a comment can not be removed after it was committed in the Gradebook view. (It returns after the edit is committed.)

Also: in the Gradebook view, when changing a letter grade that has been committed to “no grade” (--), the grade displayed is not updated until the changed grade is committed. (Case 018485561)

@Ben Leddy: a teacher reported a surprising behavior regarding the gradebook and the Collected checkbox. I think that it's working as designed (but not in the way that the student or teacher expected). If it's a bug, I can report it though Case Central.

Our classes are mostly in-person, but a few students are still quarantining remotely. The teacher is creating assignments to allow in-system submissions for the remote students, but collects paper from most students in class.

The teacher used the Collected indicator for the students who handed in paper. But…the assignment still shows as Overdue for those students who handed in paper - presumably because they have not done an in-system submission.

Please consider linking the assignment status displayed to students with the Collected indicator, so that the student does not see an Overdue notice for an assignment he handed in on paper.

Teachers used to have the ability to highlight a grade that is below a certain threshold. Are there any plans to bring this feature back? I know there is currently a way to sort the gradebook from lowest to highest grade, but that is an extra step that is not appealing to our teachers.

@Kim McAmis - As Ben said, you'll find that setting in the Skills/grades menu, but it's not obvious.

It's in Skills/grades > Select grade columns. It highlights the marking period average under a specified value. It does not flag low grades on individual assignments.

@Ben Leddy , overall my teachers are enjoying the new gradebook. I did come across one of our physical education teachers who noticed when he launches the gradebook, the drop-down list of his classes that permits a teacher to easily hop to different gradebooks is not very useable by him. It contains a list of not only all his classes from the current term, but it is showing all of his courses from next term too, but there is no term in the class name, so he has tons of duplicates. From our Core Years/Terms, we don't have SEM2 classes showing yet for teachers, so from his top Classes menu in the Faculty Persona, he only sees SEM1 classes as he should. However, from the gradebook, this setting does not seem to be respected there, and every class is showing. Also, ironically, he has noticed that the first class of the duplicate is SEM2 and the second class of the duplicate is SEM1 which is even more unnerving. I contact support, but they said that it was functioning as intended. Any insight in improving this experience? I've also attached a screenshot of his view.

There should be an option to “Uncommit” - when a teacher accidently marks over the grade, there isn't a way to go back to the way it was. the Commit stays and the old grade is gone, even if the commit was never selected.