Grading on iPad with Canvas Teacher app - any way to minimize the Grades-Comments-Files pane?

When grading in the Canvas Teacher app on the iPad, I can push the grades-comments-files pane out of the way in portrait view. But the minute I rotate the iPad to landscape, it becomes a pane taking up 1/3 of the screen — and I can't see any way to minimize it. This makes landscape view, which I prefer, almost useless. Am I missing something?

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rseilham

@dpesetsky,

Unfortunately, it's not possible to hide this pane in landscape on the iPad. I suggest you create a new feature idea for the community to discuss. If you post an idea, please post the idea back to this discussion. Thanks.

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rseilham

@dpesetsky,

jozsefdavid

Hi @watsonnk !

Thank you for the question. I am the product manager of the mobile apps. Unfortunately, this question is a bit more complicated than it seems at the first sight. A bug in my dictionary is a deviation from an existing and expected behavior. In this case, this feature never existed so that is why we can't qualify it as a bug. But it really does not matter how we call the task/issue I think.

A quick hint why it is complex:

Portrait mode:
- up/down swipe means open or close the panel.
- left/right swipe means switch students to next/previous
Landscape mode:
- left/right swipe means switch students to next/previous
- so left/right swipe cannot easily hide/show the side panel without confusion

Obviously, there are workarounds like exact open/close buttons, but it requires more thinking. I am pretty sure that most of us wouldn't be happy if we wanted to hide the side panel and accidentally we changed the student or the opposite.

We'll discuss it soon with the team and look at the options, so hopefully, we'll have more positive answer soon.

CONNORK2

same here, I grade technical drawings and having only 60% of my available screen space to grade is frustrating.

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