Canvas- Assignments and Gradebook - try IT!

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Assignments and Gradebook - Try It!

Use the Assignments area in your course to setup your Gradebook. Each of the assessment tools - Assignments, Quizzes and Discussions - will all be available on the Assignments page and will feed into the GradeBook.

Rubrics and SpeedGrader will help to create an efficient grading experience and help you to clarify expectations and improve feedback for students.

Which tools should I use?

When thinking about teaching all or part of your class in a remote manner, consider the following:

If you currently do this.....	Consider these options.....	Tools Needed
Assignments	Canvas Option: create assignments using the Assignments function on Canvas and have students submit their work in form of file upload; deadline and grading rubric can be set-up in advance.	Assignments
Quizzes usually administered in class on paper	Canvas Option 1: Recreate assessment as a Quiz in Canvas. You can limit the time on a quiz for timed assessment. Multiple types of questions available: multiple choice, multiple answers, fill in the blank, true/false, matching, essay, file upload. Canvas Option 2: Upload the quiz to Canvas as a file and create an assignment.	Quizzes
Essay submission	Canvas option: Use Assignments Links to an external site. function in Canvas to set up essay requirements and deadline.	Assignments
Presentation / Performance	Synchronous option Students can use the screen sharing function in WebEx to show presentation materials such as slides; consider recording the session to review later or for grading. Asynchronous option Students can record themselves making the presentation and then attach or upload to the assignment or discussion.	WebEx

Instructions to Try It!

This is optional, but if you would like to put practice into play, use your sandbox to try using the tools. If you have access to your live course, you can work in there instead. The links below go to Canvas Guides.

Create a quiz (Links to an external site.)or a survey (Links to an external site.) with at least two questions of different types to it, such as multiple choice and essay questions.
- Link to your homepage or add to a module.
Create an assignment (Links to an external site.)
- Link to your homepage or add to a module.
Add a rubric to the assignment (Links to an external site.)
Create an Assignments group (Links to an external site.) (such as "Written Assignments", "Discussions", "Exams")
- Set up percentage weighting (Links to an external site.). (optional)

Switch to student view (Links to an external site.) :

- - Try completing your quiz/survey
  - Submit a file to your assignment (Links to an external site.)

Then leave student view and go to the SpeedGrader (Links to an external site.) to grade the assignment and leave feedback. You can then check out the Grades (Links to an external site.) area in both teacher and student view.