Canvas assignments (Staff Guide)

Canvas assignments can be used for both formative and summative assesments. The Assignment tool allows students to submit a file or URL within your course for the submission of a website or other online activity such as a personal portfolio. All assignments are collected in the grades area where you can add feedback via Speedgrader.

• Creating Canvas Assignments
• Canvas Supported Fonts for Assignment Submissions
• Creating an Assignment for Groups
• Applying Assignment Anonymity
• Assignment Weightings
• 'Message students who' have not submitted or submitted late
• Assignment Overview Video

The grades area allows you to organise your students submitted assessments and view all students on your course. Filters can also be used to identify individuals or groups of students. Assignments are arranged in columns and you can quickly identify who has submitted work.

• Gradebook Overview Video
• Grade Post Policies - Hiding and Making Grades Available
  
• Using Canvas Grades to Enhance Engagement
• Gradebook filters
• How do I filter columns and rows in the Gradebook?
  
• Exporting grades to include the student ID in canvas
• How do I send a message to students from the Gradebook?
  
• Other Grades Guides

Speedgrader is where you can review a student's work and provide feedback. There are numerous ways to provide feedback including annotations, general comments and audio comments. You can also attach files.

• What is Speedgrader?
• Speedgrader Overview Video
• Student Assignment Comments
• How do I enable SpeedGrader to launch filtered by student group?
• Second Marking Named Submissions in Canvas
• Other Speedgrader guides
• Downloading Assignment Annotations for External Examiners
• How do I submit on behalf of a student?
• How To Manage Multiple Assignments, Referrals And Weighted Grades
• Reassign Assignments - The reassignment tool allows tutors to receive early drafts provide comments and then reassign them back to the student for them to use those comments and make improvements.

If there are multiple markers on your course, you may want to consider using the 'Enable speedgrader to launch filtered by group' option. This allows each marker to access speedgrader and only view a specific set of students work for marking.

Marking Groups

The best to way to mark with multiple markers is to create a marking group for each tutor in the people area of your course. Students can be allocated manually or automatically depending on your preferences:

• Create Groups Manually
• Create Groups Automatically

Turn on the setting to Launch speedgrader filtered by group for your course and then use the Groups filter to specify your marking group. When you launch speedgrader, only these students added to this group will appear for marking. This is your personal marking view, other markers will only be able to see their own view.

Anonymous Marking

• Staff Guide: Anonymous Marking with Multiple Markers

The Teaching and Learning Academy have developed a feedback dashboard allowing you to access all feedback in Canvas (with some exceptions) for an individual student across all courses. You can then use this to discuss, with the student, how they might use this feedback to help them improve their future submissions.

Feedback Dashboard