It seems like a technology thing, but it isn’t. Of Moodle, Blackboard, and Canvas, only Moodle lets you\u00a0grade posts, not students.<\/p>\n
Bb and Canvas both let you use rubrics\/ratings to grade discussions, but both want to grade by student<\/em> rather than post<\/em>. Canvas even forces you into one grade per student, regardless of how often they posted.<\/p>\n This is a perfect example of bad pedagogy embedded in the technology. It\u2019s based on the idea of grading students, because students get the grades.<\/p>\n But I don\u2019t grade students — I grade work. In forums for posting primary sources, I rate each source, using qualitative scales \u2014 primary source fulfilled, live link needed, full citation needed, etc. These correspond to number grades that go to the Gradebook, but what the student sees is the comment, indicating which corrections they need to make.<\/p>\n And in Moodle I can grade them all with drop downs, because a single, simple forum is all on one page. Super quick.<\/p>\n Bb and Canvas\u2019 insistence on grading per student means several clicks per student, per class, every week, for every source posted. Bad pedagogy, bad workflow.<\/p>\n Perhaps if these LMSs considered that we were grading work rather than students, it wouldn\u2019t be designed like this. When a student asks “did you grade me down?” or “when you grade me, remember I have four classes”, I always point out that I never grade them<\/em>, only their work.<\/p>\n How did we get to a place where the default is to grade students? Is it our educational culture, associating a person’s work with who they are? Surely that’s a bad idea. When we conflate a person with their work, we imply that their work is not only a product of themselves, it is<\/em> their self. Every critique become a critique of the self.<\/p>\n We mustn’t embed bad ideas into immutable systems. Really.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems like a technology thing, but it isn’t. Of Moodle, Blackboard, and Canvas, only Moodle lets you\u00a0grade posts, not students. Bb and Canvas both let you use rubrics\/ratings to grade discussions, but both want to grade by student rather than post. Canvas even forces you into one grade per student, regardless of how often […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-discussion","category-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10081,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/10081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}