Teaching with Canvas tools (continued)

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Using Assignments

For those of you coming from Oncourse, a very important thing to note about Assignments in Canvas is that Assignments generate the grade book. To create a gradebook item you create an assignment and Canvas then automatically creates a place in the grade book for that assignment. Setting points/percentages, weighting grades, dropping the lowest grade, etc. is all done in the Assignments Tool. The Grades Tool reflects the settings you set in Assignments.

TIP: When you publish an assignment it will appear in the assignment list at the bottom of the Syllabus page. If you don't want students to see the assignment yet set an "available from" date in the Assignment settings.

Canvas Guide on Assignments and Assignments Video Script

Grading Assignments with SpeedGrader

SpeedGrader is a tool that allows you to rapidly move through assignments, grading and leaving comments (including comments directly on the submitted document). You can use it to grade assignments, including those with Rubrics, in many different formats including MS Word docs, PDFs, Excel sheets, PowerPoint files, and video.

TIP: Before you start grading in SpeedGrader, click the "Mute Assignment" link at the top right so that students will not see their grades and feedback until you have completed the grading for the class and "unmuted" the assignment.

Canvas Guide for SpeedGrader and SpeedGrader Overview Script.

Using Quizzes

The Quizzes Tool is for quizzes, tests, surveys, and knowledge checks. You can build question banks for your quizzes and use them in multiple courses.

There are two videos for Quizzes, one on quiz settings and one on quiz questions

Canvas Guide on Quiz Settings and Quiz Creation: Settings Video Script

Canvas Guide on Quiz Questions (this is a link to a list of links for each question type) and Quiz Creation: Questions Video Script