Date associated with Submission Comment(s) when Manual Post Policy is used

Tasha_Biesinger
Community Contributor

When instructors set a Manual Post Policy students are not able to see grades or submission comments until the instructor posts grades. We recently noticed that the date/time associated with the submission comment(s) is the date/time that the submission comment was written/created vs. when the submission comment was made available/posted.

This makes sense for several reasons:

  • it is just easier technically
  • instructors can post then rehide grades/comments
  • it helps maintain the proper order of comments

I'm convincing myself more and more that this is fine behavior as I write this, and perhaps I'm just feeling extra sensitive around which dates show to who because of the Announcements update that was showing the 'created' date vs 'posted date' to students.

I'm curious what thoughts other folks have on this topic.

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