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[quote=Anonymous]Hi...outsider here from a school with Canvas...reacting to quote below...

"Perhaps you misunderstood how Parentvue and Canvas work? I will get notified that my child has a “D” in an automatically generated email from parentvue. My child does not have a D. They have three assignments in Canvas and the teacher hasn’t graded one, meaning they are missing a third of their current grade (which is a very small portion of their whole grade). When this happens, do not email the teacher and demand an explanation. Figure it out yourself."

I have these problems in my school district with two intersecting portals and teachers' widely varying grading policies.  In our middle school and high school, parents are recommended to check on these portals to see how their kids are doing.  Frequently the information is wrong.  Because many teachers don't keep their gradebooks up to date, it's possible that your kid is showing a D when they are really getting a good grade.  Likewise, my kid has been blindsided by getting B's because they didn't understand they were missing something until after the window for turning in assignments ended and then the grade went down but there was no recourse at that point.  A few times over several years my kid has also missed seeing teacher comments in Canvas because they are populated late and the size of the charcoal gray quotation icon is about the size of one single 10 point alphabet letter.  Typically they are letting him know that he accidentally uploaded an incorrect file.  I haven't called the teacher about these things but I am stressed because high school grades do matter, and I've already let my kid take enough freshman year grade hits for user-interface musunderstandings and upload mistakes.

I understand that my child is not perfect but these software interfaces and teacher grading behaviors are worse in my opinion than handing back a piece of paper with red ink and a grade.  If my kid hands me a printed exam with a grade, I can quickly assess the situation.  Bad grading data from a typically inaccurate portal with no accessible background details on the assignment is nearly valueless.  All I know is that the school expects me to be checking on highly unreliable stuff...but seriously...to what end? I sympathize with OP and I don't think this online grading environment is easy even for perfect kids.

So PP above thinks it's ok that the system is autogen e-mailing incorrect warnings? And that the teacher shouldn't be contacted?  Do you really think it's realistic for a middle schooler to have a mental picture of an entire marking period's grading book? Or their teacher's grading idiosyncrasies? I just don't.

I really am sympathetic to teachers.  So mostly I just seethe about these problems.  I definitely think it's not all on the kids.[/quote]

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