Assignments

Each assignment is your chance to evaluate for yourself and your instructor how well you have learned the lesson materials, how they relate to what you've learned in other lessons or even other courses, and to develop your critical thinking skills. This is also where you will do the most interaction with the other students. You will have the chance to see and evaluate the work done by the other students, just as they will do the same for you. Do your best on every Assignment.

Most assignments in Cooperative courses involve submitting a URL, or web address, to your teacher. Usually this will just be the URL of a Page you have created in Pages, but may also be a page you created in some outside resource or app. Feel free to try this tutorial's demo assignment.

Another type of assignment you may see is one for uploading a document you create or edit on your computer. Often you will download either a Word file or a PDF document. You can either complete the work in the Word file and save it, or you can complete the work by hand on the printed out PDF, then scan and save your work as a PDF.

Either way, you will then upload the document to Canvas. The upload instructions are typically similar to the following:

When you are ready to upload and submit your Word document, click "Submit Assignment" at the top right of the assignment page. In the “File Upload” area, click "Browse" to find your file. Select the file and click "Open." Finally, click “Submit Assignment.”

When uploading, you will see something similar to the image below:

 "Choose File" lets you look at files in your computer to select the correct one to submit. "Add Another File" lets you submit more than one file, if necessary. You can include a comment for your instructor if you choose. "Submit Assignment" is the last step.

When you successfully submit an assignment you will see the Submitted check-mark symbol as shown below:

Should you find you've submitted something incorrectly, click the "Re-submit Assignment" button to try again (ideally before the instructor grades it!) You can click on "Submission Details" to see more information about your submission, or click the "Download" link to see the document you uploaded (if you have any doubts about it).

Once your assignment is graded, your score will appear in the Grades page. Any comments your instructor leaves will show up in the comments area (as shown above), and you can see more detailed feedback by clicking on "Submission Details". If you then click on "View Feedback" at the top-right, this will normally show your submitted work with instructor feedback shown next to it.

Please be aware that once an assignment has been graded, you are not permitted to resubmit it without your instructor's specific permission.