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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 2/n First, the data export from the gradebook is insane. 1st row: (terrible) variable names, 2nd (incomplete) row: point totals, THEN the actual data begins. I’m writing a data cleaning script, but for my midterm grades I had to use the embedded gradebook.

10/30/2018, 5:15:48 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 3/n Then, the embedded gradebook is super glitchy on chrome. Grades and names jump around as you scroll, to the point that I had to print out my gradebook to see it properly. But… no print interface.

10/30/2018, 5:16:11 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 4/n If you change the point total for an assignment, it rescales all currently-graded assignments properly, but anything that gets submitted after that point gets rescaled wrong.

10/30/2018, 5:16:30 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 5/n There seems to be no way to change the order of assignments in the gradebook. Mine are *mostly* ordered by category, but the last four are by due date.

10/30/2018, 5:16:45 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 6/n If you have a category with many assignments that haven't been submitted yet, it calculates the grade total as if the (one, one-point assignment) that has already been submitted is the entire category, instead of looking at the overall category total.

10/30/2018, 5:17:37 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 7/n They've gone publish-button wild! If I share a file with students, I need to hit "publish" in at least three places (folder containing the file, the file itself, and the module the file is in). If I miss one, it's invisible to them, and there's no interface warning.

10/30/2018, 5:18:35 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle 8/8 And don't even get me started on the iPad app. You can't see GRADES or MODULES, the two most useful parts of Canvas. Aaaaargh!

10/30/2018, 5:19:10 PM

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@jimmylovestea @CanvasLMS @Blackboard @moodle Okay, we can now cross off the MODULES part of my rant-- the new version of the app includes them! https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-16666

5/10/2019, 2:23:07 PM

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