I want to be able to tell students something about that particular category of assignment or exam that is common to all assignments in that category. My work-around is to tell them on the first time they encounter an assignment from that category, but that seems less good because it is confusing about whether it applies to just that assignment or to all assignments in that particular category.

It would be really nice if student photos were displayed under the "BYU Grades" tab. It would help to learn names, and would eliminate the need to go to the class schedule to put a name to a face when the grades show that students are struggling.

I would rather allow a student to submit late, with a small point penalty as a disincentive, than to bar them from submitting it. The system would automatically assess a point penalty when an assignment is late. You would need four boxes:
1. penalty amount
2. score unit (% or points)
3. time amount
4. time unit

Put all items to be graded on the instructor and TA dashboard for ease of knowing what remains.

When setting up a course, I have no idea what students see when they submit an assignment so I can help them or test that it's working, even in student view. At least let us see the box that pops up when they hit the submit button. Ideally, the instructor should have a "dummy student" account to test submission and grading procedures.

Exporting grades to Excel provides a spreadsheet with individual homework scores, but not with the computed Homework category total (which might have dropped the lowest score, etc.). Category totals should be exported, as well.

Allow students to submit a URL for an assignment. In CS, we can have students host their code on an external site like GitHub, and then for the assignment they just turn in a link. This would be useful for assignments in many other departments as well, e.g. a link to a blog post or a Google Doc.

We need to be able to use negative scores in learning suite to accurately evaluate the progress and understanding of our students.

LTI (Learning Tools Integration?) allows integration with other learning tools into your course management system. Blackboard, moodle, sakai and others have this type of integration. If we could have LTI integration in Learning Suite, then it may make some things easier, such as integrating WeBWorK (math homework system) into Learning Suite. WeBWorK currently has LTI integration.

The columns should be adjustable in Gradebook. If there are too many, than it only shows the first part of the name, which is problematic when they start with similar names.

In the "Scores" screen, the column headings (which correspond to individual assignments) are collapsed so that only the first 8 characters show, making it extremely difficult to know which assignment corresponds to which column. If the assignment titles must be collapsed, I'd suggesting making the entire title visible when the user clicks on the little arrow in the column heading. This has been a major frustration.

I appreciate the addition of a rubric. Canvas has a nice feature on its rubric where instructors may add comments to each student's individual rubric. The criteria option on the current LS rubric is helpful, but I would prefer to be able to add personal comments.

Students in my class never seem to know that we have left them feedback on an assignment. Learning Suite should notify them, both by email and by having an "unread Feedback" notification when they login to Learning Suite, similar to unread notifications on Facebook.

Grades currently defaults to zero decimal places, meaning you can't type in a score with a half point. Most don't know the default can be adjusted (some use scores of 100 to not need half points). It becomes problematic when you delete a quiz question after a quiz has ended and re-score. If a student received a 6/9 and it's scaled to a 10, they'll receive a grade of 6 (LearningSuite rounds ALL decimals down!). They should receive a 6.67.