Student messages
Hard to find unread messages when students post to assignment dropboxes. Would be great if there were drop boxes titles class tasks and dropboxes titled assessment to differentiate the two and save having to explain this to students.
Annotating in full screen would make this 5*
Literally the only thing I’ve been waiting for; for 2 years now, is to be able to get rid of that waste of space blocking half the screen while annotating in landscape or portrait.
Even the screenshots of the app show the whole assignment as full screen, when in portrait… however I can’t figure out how I’m supposed to hide that right pane when marking.
Please someone tell me they’ll put a button in to hide that pane. 😂
Even the screenshots of the app show the whole assignment as full screen, when in portrait… however I can’t figure out how I’m supposed to hide that right pane when marking.
Please someone tell me they’ll put a button in to hide that pane. 😂
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ok
Has its advantages but harder to use than the browser version. Documentation tedious to find. Does not render MathJax properly.
Not good enough
The app looks ok and it’s practical to reply messages and post announcements.
But it doesn’t have the option at modules, edit modules, or create significant assignments using the phone! I would give it 5 starts if I could modify everything on my course using the app.
But it doesn’t have the option at modules, edit modules, or create significant assignments using the phone! I would give it 5 starts if I could modify everything on my course using the app.
Course Images Don’t Display
Course images do not automatically display on mobile app. How absurd is that! If there is an image in the course is should automatically display in the app, period! The app is unreliable. You think you know what your students are seeing but you don’t.
Frustratingly buggy
Has the potential of being really useful for marking but there are so many problems with it. It’s hard to use the highlight option without highlighting everything if we try to scroll through the document, so we have to constantly cancel that option, then if we use this option and revert to the pointer highlighter, it takes on the color of the highlighter (that is by default yellow). There are all sorts of weird things like this, that makes one revert back to the desktop browser version. Can we please fix these issues?
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Great
Easy to use. Makes marking online easier.
Appallingly poor considering its intended use
The iPad app is almost worse than useless. Masquerading as a time-saving tool under the auspices of a speed grader, this glitch, slow, and unresponsive app actually WORSENS the quality of feedback I share with my students.
The whole point of such a tool is to leverage the iPad’s mobility and pencil features, but it takes forever to load assignments even with lighting fast internet, and the handwriting engine drastically reduces the quality of text markup. While my handwriting isn’t the best, I do a lot of work to ensure my comments are legible. But each time I click “done” on an assignment, I can see all of my on-screen notes get just subtly reformatted - re-rendered, I suppose - to look like that of a two year old being electrocuted.
Speed grader? Hardly.
The whole point of such a tool is to leverage the iPad’s mobility and pencil features, but it takes forever to load assignments even with lighting fast internet, and the handwriting engine drastically reduces the quality of text markup. While my handwriting isn’t the best, I do a lot of work to ensure my comments are legible. But each time I click “done” on an assignment, I can see all of my on-screen notes get just subtly reformatted - re-rendered, I suppose - to look like that of a two year old being electrocuted.
Speed grader? Hardly.
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Speedgrader loses annotations, horrible support
I use the Canvas app exclusively for Speedgrader since everything else is easier to do by computer. I noticed that it was often failing to save the last annotations or erasures I made on papers. This would be an understandable bug, especially given the sudden demands of the pandemic, but six months after my initial report it still hasn’t been fixed. Much worse is the constant gaslighting along the way by Instructure support: for example, they said they had never heard of the problem and tried to claim it was the fault of my network connection when six different members of my department (everyone who has used it, on many different networks including our very fast one on campus — as well as other reviewers here) see the same problem. They claimed it was a problem with the Apple Pencil (what else would I use?) and said they couldn’t obtain one for testing. I’ve sent them samples and recorded multiple videos showing the problem but then weeks go by and once I do hear from them it’s back to square one.
Update: my campus Instructure liaison has told me this will not be fixed. Apparently data corruption is considered acceptable. Don’t make the mistake we did of getting locked into this platform — find a different LMS provider!
Update: my campus Instructure liaison has told me this will not be fixed. Apparently data corruption is considered acceptable. Don’t make the mistake we did of getting locked into this platform — find a different LMS provider!
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More features need to available
I’d like to suggest that more editing features need to be made available for the phone app
