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As a student, I would like to be coached as I compose open-ended responses in my lab report if I am missing key terms that are graded. Key words are loaded into a feedback engine, such as "error" where a discussion of these things are critical. If...

As a TA, I’d like to be able to grade offline and then filling in scores and comments later. As a Coordinator, I’d like to be able to pull ZIP files of all submitted student lab reports in bulk.

Instructors can load in a list of key words as a part of the rubric definition, and then when a TA is grading those words are highlighted in the student responses, to focus the TAs attention on their presence or absence. Maybe even put checkmarks ...

Gradescope has the ability to recalculate grades if you change a rubric item score/point value after or during grading (ex post facto).

[Canvas SpeedGrader has this] How we should handle multiple submissions: When students fail on a rubric item and resubmits another attempt/draft, the TAs only have to check/focus on the rubrics to see if they improved them.

Renee grades on strict pass/fail criteria with double-criteria and would like a platform to accommodate this: Each rubric has “good enough” for pass credit on that rubric or “not acceptable” for a fail on that rubric Students have to pass a certa...

Sometimes instructors ask for students to take a picture of their materials before a lab, or perhaps a lab practical-type exercise where they show a result or a setup. TAs need an image to compare it to. Also they would like this for providing wo...

As an instructor/coordinator, I want to be able to schedule a message (notification/text) to go to each of my TAs 5 or so min before the lab meeting time to remind them of something they need to do that week, perhaps to announce or cover some topi...

Rarely... departments using the university writing assistant program on campus (typically undergraduate writing coaches) to have students submit lab reports drafts to a writing coach, get feedback, then resubmit the report to be given a final grad...

Students come in to talk to the coordinator and the coordinator asks them which section they are in, and they don't know. Amanda Howell at App State keeps asking about this.