STILL no specific feedback in rubrics??
Update: It’s Sept. 2024, and still no feedback in the rubric? I’ve made this comment on here for years. I also can’t edit a total grade score if it’s been set to follow a grade book rule like automatically deducting for late submissions. When I’m grading on mobile, I can’t waive automatically enforced late penalties for students I have excused or those with with disability accommodations. Why not create an app with full compatibility with the desktop version in a standalone product? It’s frustrating. I use Canvas for 5 different colleges and teach like 10 classes at a time. I would love for Canvas to be as amazing as people claim.
Update: Over a year later. Still…why??? It’s unacceptable that I cannot provide individualized feedback within each criteria of the rubric (like I can on the desktop). Literally, why? If I make the feedback on the desktop, I can see it in the app, and I can even edit it! So why on earth can’t I create that feedback in the app when grading? I’ve lamented this for five years hoping that one day this obviously needed feature would one day appear...to no avail. Otherwise, this app is fire. Make it better.
Update: Over a year later. Still…why??? It’s unacceptable that I cannot provide individualized feedback within each criteria of the rubric (like I can on the desktop). Literally, why? If I make the feedback on the desktop, I can see it in the app, and I can even edit it! So why on earth can’t I create that feedback in the app when grading? I’ve lamented this for five years hoping that one day this obviously needed feature would one day appear...to no avail. Otherwise, this app is fire. Make it better.
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SpeedGrader
There should be an option to change the order of files when viewing multiple files attached by student. There is no option to reorder according to name or date modified and this is very inefficient. How the files are viewed on a computer is very different than how they are organized on the app but this should be kept consistent. Rotating files option is also missing! Add these features, I beg you. PLEASE!!!!
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Functionally useless
The app hinders rather than helps workflow. Everything is incredibly slow to load (if it loads at all rather than generating an error message), entire pages are missing that are present on the web portal, filtering does not work properly. The app has actually removed my mobile device as an option to do work in Canvas on—iPad and iPhone.
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Messaging app is buggy
For about 6 months the messaging feature has become unreliable. Words that I’ve typed disappear mid-message, forcing me to re-write messages on my computer. It’s super annoying. The messaging app was already touchy — your text could disappear if you switched to another app or take a phone call.
I used to sorta like Canvas. But now I’m starting to think that they’re not attending to their product anymore because it’s become obligatory and hard-to-avoid. What incentive do they have to innovate or improve? They have a lot of teachers trapped. I hope that I’m just being cynical today. But for me the balance between saving me time and wasting my time is going in the wrong direction. I’m starting to dread my buggy app, and the fifteen thousand clicks it’ll take to do anything. If I’m away from my computer and a student needs something fast, it’s a crap shoot whether or not it’s going to waste a half hour. Maybe Canvas isn’t paying enough creatives and programmers?
I used to sorta like Canvas. But now I’m starting to think that they’re not attending to their product anymore because it’s become obligatory and hard-to-avoid. What incentive do they have to innovate or improve? They have a lot of teachers trapped. I hope that I’m just being cynical today. But for me the balance between saving me time and wasting my time is going in the wrong direction. I’m starting to dread my buggy app, and the fifteen thousand clicks it’ll take to do anything. If I’m away from my computer and a student needs something fast, it’s a crap shoot whether or not it’s going to waste a half hour. Maybe Canvas isn’t paying enough creatives and programmers?
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It’s great and can continue to improve
The look and feel is great. Easy to navigate.
I would like to see options to share /upload documents into Canvas app and not just audio files.
It would be ideal to have canvas app on windows or iOS as well!
I would like to see options to share /upload documents into Canvas app and not just audio files.
It would be ideal to have canvas app on windows or iOS as well!
Still full of bugs
Still very buggy, especially with the grading of assignments. For example you can’t actually grab the handles if the comments windows to resize them.
Also no offline option so you can’t use this to mark assignments unless you are connected to the internet.
Also no offline option so you can’t use this to mark assignments unless you are connected to the internet.
Misses most functionality
Anything that you would want to do from the app, such as checking group assignments, is not easily available.
Combine with BookWidgets!
I wish you updated teacher-friendly features on here. However, this app paired with book widgets allows me to grade French and Spanish worksheets so much faster and have self checking assignments for distance learning. We have it set to sync to infinite campus so s lot of data entry is accurately and reliably done for you. This is the first time in years and years that part of my workload was LESSENED! Such a time saver. It is so much easier to track kids’ work patterns. I spend time helping, not repeatedly grading the same answers on fill in the blank activities. I wish the Quiz portion of the app were more flexible. That part needs improvement to aide in engagement and making the kinds of paper and digital quizzes I make. It is far behind on that front but thankfully allows other software access. Zero regrets. I highly recommend the app to my students. It is very user friendly for distance learners.
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less than great
It has been the biggest waste of time for teachers and students in the worst rolled out management system in training for that system, and has completely ignored how long it takes for teachers and students to manipulate it. Not to mention a complete waste of money and an overreaction to one semester and a half of zoom. I mean why go away from Google classroom. We’re all trained on that for years and they just got sprung on us and they didn’t even know how to teach it which they’ve got a lot better at so it didn’t have potential but it just takes so long to do everything so many clicks. And once was in a meeting or someone said, what do you want us to do this you know evaluation for students and to fill out these forms and how many clicks does it take to get me to where I want to be and he’s worked it out to be 11 and we talked about it in the meeting and we will get it down to seven. I did count with one point and I was over 30 and I just like are you kidding me there’s so many clicks to get some little one
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For emergency use only
I primarily use Canvas on a computer, where I am satisfied with how it functions. When I have tried using this app, I have found it incredibly slow to load courses and randomly glitchy. Today I was trying to edit the closing date on an assignment. The original closing date was 12/16 and I wanted to extend it by one day, but for some reason, the date kept pulling back to Dec. 1, no matter what I did. It was bizarre. I also find the interface isn’t very intuitive. These are issues I have had consistently since downloading the app in 2020, and while some features have improved, it obviously still isn’t the equal of the basic web version.
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