See all assignments for 2 students side by side. Is this possible?

TravisBower1

I wish that there was a way to hop from one submission to another for a single student.

Then the next feature that I would request is to have submissions of two students appear side by side.

Sometimes I want to compare their work.

In fact, having a thumbnail of every student for a particular assignment would be great.

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dbrace

Hi @TravisBower1,

You would need to submit these as ideas in the Canvas Community.

How do I create a new idea in the Instructure Community?

-Doug

RachelSalmon

In Speedgrader, there should be a drop down in the top right corner to switch between submissions for a single student. It will have the header: Submission to view. You can jump back and forth between submissions. Here is a guide that shows it: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-view-the-details-of-a-submission-for-a-student-in/ta-p/762#evaluate_multiple_submissions

For seeing two student submissions side by side, the easiest way to do that is to open the speed grader again in another window and split the screen to show both at the same time or if you use a second monitor, put a student's submission on each monitor. I end up doing that if I need to compare.

I hope that helps!

dbrace

Those are good tips, @RachelSalmon. I have taken similar steps when reviewing submissions. I think @TravisBower1 is looking for something built into Canvas though.

-Doug

TravisBower1

Thanks, but.

I don't want to see all the submissions for one particular assignment.

I want to see the submissions for all the assignments. In other words I want to see as thumbnails assignments 1-5, for example. I want to see if they are turning in blank assignments or their assignments are in blue ink and are exactly the same as some other student. [students turn in pdf's for their math class].

Or during a conference I want the student to see that they only do the first 3 problems and leave the rest blank---and that has been for the last 10 assignments! and to do this all in one glance--all on one page or something that I can scroll through.

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