It would be great if when downloading an assignment we could get a single ZIP file with all submissions in a single directory. The filename should be the student name and assignment name. After making markup on the assignments, we could then re-upload another zip file that would be automatically assigned to each student for that assignment. Currently, re-uploading marked assignments requires navigation to another folder for each and every student. The process is quite (needlessly) time consuming.
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Adam Sentz @Dean - We added document viewing and annotation to Populi so you wouldn't have to download documents in order to grade them. Have you had a chance to try that out?
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Permanently deleted user The problem with the online document viewing is that the formatting is often different than the source document. It often changes the pagination between the word document and the online version. Downloading the word document from Populi gives the proper formatting.
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Adam Sentz @Dean - It's possible that a document could be formatted a little differently due to differences in font rendering between whatever desktop application you're viewing it in and the software that's reading the document on our servers. I would expect this to be less of an issue (possibly a non-issue) with PDFs than it is with Word docs. If you come across examples that illustrate this well we'd love to see them in case there are are improvements we could make to mitigate the differences in formatting.
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Permanently deleted user I will ask this professor to find me some examples. It has happened enough so far that he is unwilling to grade within Populi.
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Permanently deleted user I asked the professor about grading online with PDF submissions. I showed him the online markup and it seems you can't see the comments without clicking them. And then they aren't visible on the downloaded PDF. Students need the ability to see all annotations on the document without jumping through hoops. I think the online markup is a step in the right direction, but not quite there for all users.
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