Edx-sga XBlock is not responsive for instructors — any plan to improve?

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Hello everyone,

I’m using the edx-sga XBlock, developed by the MIT Office of Digital Learning, for staff-graded assignments. It works fine on the desktop,

This XBlock is not responsive at all — especially for instructors.

I’ve checked and confirmed that the instructor (teacher) interface is not responsive.

  • On mobile devices, I am unable to see or access the “Grade Submissions” button.

  • I’m unable to view student submissions on a phone to assign marks.

  • The layout breaks or is missing completely on smaller screens.

It’s not possible to grade using a mobile.

I want to ask:

  1. Is there any plan to make this XBlock responsive in the future?

  2. Is anyone currently maintaining or improving this XBlock?

  3. Or should I plan to implement the responsive UI myself?

I’d appreciate any updates or suggestions.

Thanks! :slight_smile:

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@pdpinch could you weigh in here? Would upstream contributions from @Yagnesh be reviewed and merged?

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Indeed, MIT Open Learning does maintain edx-sga. However, we don’t have any plans to improve the mobile experience. If you’d like to open a PR in GitHub - mitodl/edx-sga: Staff Graded Assignment XBlock for the edX platform we will review it.

That said, every time someone asks about SGA, it’s an opportunity to ask – why do you use SGA instead of ORA? Staff grading is a feature of ORA, and I expect it behaves better in mobile.

Peter Pinch

MIT Open Learning

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As a matter of fact, I just merged a PR that improves the mobile grading experience. :slight_smile:

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