What is Assignment Enhancements for Students?

Assignment Enhancements is for Students is an optional “Feature Preview”. This feature preview changes the Classic Assignment Details page to improve the assignment interface and submission workflow for students. It makes important information such as the due date and points value stand out visually while also providing a clearer indication of where the student is in the assignment submission and review process.

What are the major changes?

Below are screenshots that compare what students see when they go to an assignment for both the “classic” and “new” views.

Classic

Classic interface of an assignment in Canvas

New Assignment Enhancement View

Updates assignment interface of the Assignment Enhancements feature preview

Why should I enable this Feature Preview?

I'm enabling this feature preview in my courses as I utilize Peer Reviews frequently. Assignment Enhancements for Students makes this process much more clear for students. I'm also enabling it as it makes viewing feedback as a student much easier, including automatically expanding the feedback window when new teacher comments are left.

Video Walk-through

You can watch through the video walkthrough below to see how to enable this feature preview as well as a comparison of the existing and updated view from a student point-of-view.

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