Canvas: Assignments User Guide

The assignment tool can be used for various types of assessments; online submissions, in-class participation, paper submissions. You can also set the option to have it graded or ungraded, set the display points, and set a due date. Online submissions can be graded using the speedgrader. These are just a few of the things you can do in the Assignment.

Instructions:

Setup up Assignments
When adding an Assignment the Submission Type can be set to allow for students to submit online, in-class or no submission. Regardless of the Submission Type, a gradebook column is created allowing you to enter grades.

• Create an assignment for online submission (online submissions - allows students to submit files online)
• Create an assignment ( in-class submission or participation) This allows you to grade assessments that are not submitted online.
• Canvas: Create and use Groups for assignments  Assign student groups to an assignment
• Canvas: Faculty Guide - Using Turnitin's SimCheck assignment originality tool   Plagiarism report system for student submissions
• Canvas: Rubrics overview
• Canvas: Assign Assessment Due Date to one student  The instructions in this article apply to any assessment in Canvas

Weighting Grades

To setup weighted grades, go to Assignments and enable the Assignment Groups Weight. Once you have enabled the weighted grades option, then you add an Assignment Group for each of the Weighted Groups. Check out the articles below for more details.

• How do I weight the final course grade based on weighted groups?
• Add an assignment group for weighting grades
• Understanding how grades are calculated when using assignment groups

Grading the Assignment

The Speedgrader is an inline grading tool that also provides functionality to annotate submissions online. The Speedgrader is also linked to your Rubric, if you are using one, so you can quickly add points from the Rubric.

The Peer Review option allows students to see the Speedgrader to review the other student's paper.  If you are also using the Peer Review option in Assignments, and have set the comments to be anonymous, then the DocView Mark-up tools are not available in the Speedgrader. For details, see the Canvas guide article "How do I create a peer review assignment?".

• Canvas - Grading using the Speedgrader
• Canvas DocViewer - in-line document viewer
• How do I create a peer review assignment?
• How to setup and use Anonymous grading for assignments

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