Dividing student submissions among multiple graders in a large course - what is the best solution?

[aparker3]

What is the best solution for grading student assignment submissions in a large enrolment course where each teaching assistant is assigned to a subset of student essays? Thank you for your help!

[chriscas]

Hi @aparker3,

My first question would be whether the course enrollments separated by sections or not.  If the are separated into sections, it would be really easy to restrict the TAs to viewing only their own section, which means they'd only see their assigned students in the Grades and SpeedGrader areas.  Can you let us know if this is the case for these courses at your school/institutuon?

-Chris

[aparker3]

Hi Chris,

They could be divided into sections at our Office of the Registrar level, but it would be preferable to find a single-section, course-level workaround.

[chriscas]

Hi @aparker3,

I don't really know of another workaround for this currently than having the students in separate sections.  I know Instructure has been doing some work in addiing some kind of tagging/subsection feature that would be more in control of a teacher than sections are right now, but that's not available at all in production Canvas right now, so not really a viable solution for you.  I'd definitely recommend looking into sections with your Registrar and local Canvas teams there if this is an immediate need.

-Chris