Agreed, it is staggeringly irritating to have to click on a check mark every time I write freehand on a student's work. If I want to write, say the number of points taken off for an answer, and it's something like -1½, that's a minimum of five times that miserable little "check vs. trash can" thing is going to demand action from me; six if I irresponsibly pick my pen up from the tablet while writing the 2. I've done it, and that's exactly what happens. Literally, I have written the minus sign and then have to accept or reject it, and have had to accept or reject...wait for it...half of the number 2 before writing the rest of the number. And then on to the numbers. And if I write any text? Same thing, for every. single. time. my. tablet. pen. is. raised. from. the. tablet. surface.
By using the Speedgrader's freehand annotation tool I thought I had found a way to avoid having to download student work to my hard drive, write stuff on it, save it, and re-upload it to Canvas for them in the comment area. I think I'm convinced that all that is indeed less laborious than slogging through student work trying to freehand-annotate it in Speedgrader.
Unless, of course, someone out there has a way around it!
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