On Saturday (tomorrow), Canvas will update our system with some minor changes. Students will notice a few of these when they submit assignments that you create with the Assignments tool.
- There is an updated submission tracker that helps determine the status of their submission.
- Rubrics will be on the submission page, not on a separate tab.
- Feedback will now be found in the comment tray, not in a separate tab.
Information about the above (and more) can be found on a Canvas blog for this tool.
There are two other bigger changes with Assignments, but honestly, after getting mixed signals from Canvas, I’m not sure whether either or both will show up Saturday. The first is a Webcam Submission button for File Uploads, and this allows students to take a picture of an object (say, a Math solution) with a webcam and submit it. The other is a submission option called Student Annotations that allows you to upload a document and have students type directly into it before submitting it. It’s the same technology that allows you to annotate right on student submissions in the SpeedGrader.
If one or neither of the above features doesn’t show Saturday, they will show eventually. Of course, one Canvas person told me they will show in the “near future”, while the other said they are “not on the roadmap” yet. So go figure.
Finally, for those of you teaching summer courses, students are scheduled to be inputted into their classes Monday.
Scott
