Moodle - No "Preview Submitted Assignments"
The instructor is unable to preview submitted student work. In Canvas, the instructor could click on the Speed Grader and a preview of the student file submission of their Word/PDF file would show. This is not activated yet in Moodle and needs to be setup as a Document Converter by Site admin.
Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, we will not be able to implement your idea at this time. We will keep for future consideration.
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Scott Christy commented
108 votes for this feature and the answer is still no???
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Greg Porter commented
I have to say I am disapointed with the roll out of the "new experience". In the 20 years I have been teaching this is the worst platform they have adopted
A great number of features that were available in canvas and are available as plugins for noodle make those systems usable for instructors.
Hopefully someone will listen to those who use the system day in and day out
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Scott Christy commented
Joy, would it be possible to explain to this instructor community why this is not able to be implemented at this time?
I've set this up on my own on my district's Moodle server and it's an easy installation using either Unoconv or Google Drive Converter (See: https://docs.moodle.org/311/en/Document_converters ) to convert documents. Once one of these are up and running the Annotate Assignments feature is essentially the same as what was available in Canvas (See: https://moodleuserguides.org/guides/annotate-student-assignment-submissions/ )
If scalability is the concern due to the large number of Moodle users on the CISCO NetAcademy Moodle site then perhaps Moodle isn't the right solution? If you're concerned that the document conversion process will hog up too many resources, or that it is unstable, simply change the admin settings to only allow PDF documents to be uploaded. That way Moodle doesn't have to convert the documents and the Annotate Assignment feature can still be used.
This is an essential piece of the instructor workflow. Without it, grading tasks are a tedious chore as we'll need to download the assignments, add comments to each document, save it, and then upload it back for each assignment.
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Rodney Holdsworth commented
This would really help workflow -- the preview is really needed as suggested. Being able to see what has been re-submitted and being able to see what has been turned late (if a grade has been entered for them) Would also be helpful. Thanks for your time!
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Ida Byrd-Hill commented
Allow the plafrm to speed grade
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Dominic Burhenn commented
(Support Desk Team Lead). I'm sure you are working ******* this, and plan to make it available, and are good people doing good things and all......BUT, Why wasn't this turned on first thing? This content shouldn't have been implemented without the "preview" experience. Why did you force/release it upon us instructors, without consulting instructors? DO any of your implementers/developers actually teach classes? If you did, you would have not released it yet. Canvas has this "preview" feature, I'm certain other LMS's have it. It's bad enough there's a 20MB limit on the uploads (PowerPoints smoke 20MB like it was a dream). Get it together, please. Taking away functionality is not improvement.
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Scott Christy commented
If the Moodle Annotate Assignment feature (similar to the Canvas Speed Grader feature) is not turned on yet it definitely needs to be!! Not having it drastically slows down the teachers workflow. This feature should be turned on by default if it isn't already!!
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Latife Bechara-Medina commented
The New Course Experience needs to include the speed grader functionality to make it efficient to grade and give prompt student feedback with the ability to annotate their submission and easily open their simulations.