Is anyone else having trouble with the new design of Speedgrader for Discussions?

[ValerieBurks]

When I logged on today to grade discussions, the design had changed tremendously. It used to be all posts for the individual student were readily accessible on the left navigation pane. Now, I have to toggle through to get to the student posts and replied. My grading time has tripled, making the "speed" in Speedgrader rather ironic. 

Is there a way in the options to go back to the previous design?

[james_whalley]

@ValerieBurks In your SpeedGrader, are you seeing the new Next Reply and Previous Reply buttons on the right above the grading?

[hbaz]

I'm having the exact same issue after seeing the changes this so called "upgrade" made to Speedgrader for discussions. I searched the options and found no way to revert these changes.

The only temporary workaround I found was using search to put in the student's last name, or full name if multiple students with the same last name, in order to pull up all their submission. Even this 'workaround' is riddled with errors because a message saying "Sorry something is broken" pops up every other letter typed in the search bar.

I even contacted support. Online chat was of no assistance, but calling them provided the information that: 

• Only 'admins' can reverse the change
• There are no options to reverse this downgrade to Speedgrader and no classic version is available.
• They say some teachers were involved in testing the feature and "liked the changes so they could see missing student submissions", but this should be taken with a boulder of salt.

Both options had the agents say to post it on community boards, but who knows when they'll even acknowledge how inconvenient and unpopular a change like this would be. I say if enough of us contact them here and Support directly over the phone they'll get a better idea of how much of a burden this change places on instructors.