Canvas Faculty Guide: Canvas Grading

302 - Assignments Overview from Instructure Canvas Community.

An "Assignment" is a catch-all term for coursework that is not a quiz or exam (which falls under Quizzes) or a discussion. A Canvas Assignment could be an essay or research paper, a drill exercise, or a public speaking exercise (to name a few). 

What can you do with Assignments? 

• Grade work that is submitted online and on paper 

• Create online submissions that can be graded quickly in SpeedGrader

• Create a rubric (see here for special instructions on enabling free-form comments in a rubric) add it to an assignment or a quiz, and align a course outcome with a rubric

• Make a peer-review assignment, set up peer reviews,and view peer review comments 

• Make weighted grade categories in Canvas, or base a final course grade on assignment categories

310 - Gradebook Overview from Instructure Canvas Community.

What can you do in the Gradebook? 

• Manually enter and edit student grades for assignments submitted and graded outside of Canvas 

• Enter assignments that are submitted through Canvas (use SpeedGrader to make general and detailed comments) 

• Leave comments for students in the Gradebook 

• Download scores to work on outside of Canvas 

• Set a grade posting policy for a course (lock grades for viewing) 

• By default, ungraded tasks do not factor the assignment into grade calculations. You can change this setting so that ungraded assignments receive a 0, or change the status of an assignment, discussion, or quiz (late, missing, excused, or no status).  

524 - SpeedGrader™ Overview from Instructure Canvas Community.

Why Use SpeedGrader? 

• Sort submissions by student and hide names for anonymous grading 

• Use a rubric to grade submissions in SpeedGrader, which allows students to clearly see the categories in which they excelled or need improvement 

• Instead of ratings, you can also use free-form comments in a rubric in SpeedGrader (do this when making a rubric) 

• Hide or post assignment grades (or selectively post grades to students with graded submissions) 

• Use DocViewer, which allows you to comment directly on student submissions and supports any file type that can be previewed in Canvas 

• Download all student submissions for an assignment (downloads as a ZIP file that you can grade on your computer offline-- which you can then reupload as a single ZIP file) 

• For a list of how-tos, see the Canvas Instructor Guide on Speedgrader

304 - Quizzes Overview from Instructure Canvas Community.

What are Quizzes for? 

• You can choose between four types of quizzes (graded, practice, graded survey, and ungraded survey); quizzes are the name for all exams, tests, and so on 

• Create question banks in order to create institutional or departmental repositories (the English department can create a question bank that can be used to create the same evaluation for different students in multiple different courses) 

• Make a quiz where students only see one question at a time 

• Make a quiz with a variety of different settings (including allowing students to see incorrect questions, assign multiple attempts, allow students to view correct answers at a certain date, set a time limit, and many more)

•  Use the Moderate quiz page to view the progress of student submissions, the number of quiz attempts, grant students extra attempts, extra time, and unlock quiz attempts 

• See here for a list of quiz how-to guides 

• NOTE: Canvas offers a Classic Quizzes mode and a New Quizzes mode. It is highly recommended that you build or rebuild your quizzes in the New Quizzes mode, as Classic Quizzes will be retired from the Canvas platform in early 2021.  

516 - Discussions Overview from Instructure Canvas Community.

What can you do with Discussions? 

• Create, edit, or delete discussions in a course

• Create a "threaded" or "focused" discussion within your course, depending on the type of conversation you would like to encourage

• Make a graded discussion or group discussion as an assignment (when a discussion is marked as a graded assignment, the SpeedGrader separates student comments and combines them into a single view for grading) 

• Subscribe to a discussion to be updated on any new comments (by default, you are subscribed to any you create as an instructor, but TAs or students who create discussions will not give you automatic subscriptions) 

• Assign Peer Review to a discussion 

• Incorporate/embed videos into discussions as a prompt

On this page, you'll find:

• Assignments 
• GradeBook
• SpeedGrader
• Quizzes
• Discussions
• Academic Integrity