Whether you're looking to learn how to create an assignment or set up a new quiz the following guides will help get you started. If you can't find what you are looking for, take a look at the Canvas Instructor Guides for a comprehensive list of assessment functionality and tools. For more information about Turnitin, see the Turnitin help page.
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Student Guides
The submission process was recently udpated for students. Check out the new student guides:
Assignments
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.
Grades Area and Speedgrader
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. Speedgrader however is where work is reviewed and feedback can be provided. If anonymity has been switched on for your assignment, you will not be able to identify each student in Speedgrader.
My Canvas Admin
My Canvas admin can also be utilised to export grades: staff guide: Exporting grades to include the student ID in canvas
Grades Guides
The grades area allows you to view all student submissions. The assignments are arranged in columns and you can quickly identify who has submitted work.
- What are grades and the gradebook
- Blog Post: Enhanced Gradebook Filters
- Grade Post Policies - Hiding and Making Grades Available
- Staff Guide: Using Canvas Grades to Enhance Engagement
- Sending Courseworks to the Print Room
- How do I filter columns and rows in the Gradebook?
- Staff Guide: Contacting Students who haven't submitted when marking anonymously
- How do I send a message to students from the Gradebook?
- Other Grades Guides
Speedgrader 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?
- Student Assignment Comments
- How do I enable SpeedGrader to launch filtered by student group?
- Second Marking Named Submissions in Canvas
- Other Speedgrader guides
- Reassign Assignments
- Downloading Assignment Annotations for External Examiners
- How do I submit on behalf of a student?
- How To Manage Multiple Assignments, Referrals And Weighted Grades
Multiple Markers
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.
Multiple Marker Guides
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:
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
Whats New?
- Blog Post: New Assignment Submission Tool in Canvas
- Blog Post: Turnitin Unveils Enhanced Similarity Report
- Blog Post: Assessment Updates 2023 (Staff)
- Blog Post: Important Changes to Turnitin
- Blog Post: Recent Assessment and Feedback Developments in Canvas (Staff)
- Blog Post: Canvas Assessment Updates (20/03/21)
- Blog Post: New Feedback Dashboard
INSPIRE Assessment Case Studies
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