"assignment" tool pop-up after student submission = Misleading to students
Hello!
When students submit an assignment, the "assignment" tool pops up for them and provides an overview of the assignments completed and which ones are next to complete. That said, this tool is misleading because it gives the students the impression that this is the course outline. Students click and attempt the next assignment without consulting the lessons and instructions. These links are simply submission boxes linked to the gradebook. I propose that D2L allows Teachers to deactivate the student's access to this page and only from the student perspective to prevent continuous confusion from students.
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Hello Jessica,
I am not sure what you mean by "pops up" as I have not ever seen this. Here is a sample student submitting an assignment.
Are you all using the classic content or new content experience? Do you have a link to the assignments tool in the navbar? Just trying to understand what pop-up they are seeing.
Best,
Andrea
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Hi Andrea,
Thanks for responding! Your experience is for sure different than ours… I have a link to a video that shows what we experience here:
We are not certain what version of Brightspace we are using, but it is whichever one the rest of British Columbia is using.
Whether we have the Assignments tools in the navbar or not doesn't change the results. The Assignments "page" opens no matter what. We were told several times by Brightspace that this could not be changed. Now seeing your video, I can see that it can!
Looking forward to a possible fix!
Jessica
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@Jessica.M.3493 Hi Jessica, if students go directly to the Assignments area from the navbar, then it will send them back to the Assignments list after they submit. If you add the assignment to the Content area and have students submit from there, then it shouldn't direct them to the full Assignments list after each submission. It will stay on that same Assignments submission page within Content and then students can just click the next arrow to continue navigating to the next item in the module.
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Thank you @Jennifer.W.973! That doesn't work in our courses. The students are always working and submitting from the CONTENT view, never from the Assignment Tool in the Navbar. We do not keep the Assignment Tool in the Navbar. That said, no matter what the students submit in the submission box links in CONTENT, they are immediately taken to the Assignment page afterwards, then they naturally click the next assignment, then work out of context. Some care, others don't. We were told by our D2L support person that this could not be changed. I am repeating myself, I know ;)
Anyhow, it is misleading to our students and causes teachers additional tasks and wasted time.
Jessica.
