Day: June 12, 2020

Grading with SpeedGrader

by adminCanvas Course Design

Canvas accepts a variety of document formats and even URLs as assignment submissions. The SpeedGrader™ provides instructors with the ability to to view the assignment submission online and then annotate, comment, and grade student assignment submissions.

Per Canvas documentation, Instructors can use SpeedGrader™ to:

  • Sort submissions by student 
  • Hide student names for anonymous grading
  • Evaluate assignments for each student, including resubmitted assignments
  • Use rubrics to assign grades
  • Leave feedback for your students
  • Track your grading progress and hide assignments while grading

To learn more about the SpeedGrader, feel free to watch the SpeedGrader Overview Video and view the SpeedGrader Tutorials.

SpeedGrader Tutorials

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Managing Grades

by adminCanvas Course Design

Grades allows instructors to easily input grades as well as track the progress of and communicate grades/feedback to students. Grades can also automatically calculate weighted grades based on the Assignment Groups created in the Assignments tool. 

Grades opens to the Canvas Gradebook. Columns are automatically created in the Gradebook when instructors create:

  • Assignments
  • Graded Discussions
  • Graded Quizzes
  • Surveys
  • Graded External Tool Assignments

Canvas also includes a tool called SpeedGrader™ that integrates the feedback and grading process with the gradebook.This is a great feature for grading submitted assignments and quizzes.

To learn more about Grades, feel free to watch the Grades Video and review the Grades Tutorials.

Grades Tutorials

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Manage Conversations

by adminCanvas Course Design

Similar to email, Conversations is also sometimes called “Messages” or the “Inbox”. Conversations compiles all messages sent throughout Canvas and it is the only communications tool in Canvas that instructors can use to send direct, private messages to users in a course. 

Conversations can be accessed from the Inbox link in the Help Center menu at the top right of the Canvas page.

The default Notifications Setting is for Conversation messages to be sent via email. Messages received via email can be replied to either

  • from Blitz by selecting Reply
  • from within Canvas, by selecting the URL link in the email and logging into Canvas

Important: If the Conversation Message Notification is turned off, it will be necessary to log in to Canvas to view messages sent by students via Conversations as these messages will not be sent via email. 

To learn more about Conversations, feel free to view the Communications Tutorials listed below.

Conversation Tutorials

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Making Announcements

by adminCanvas Course Design

Announcements are used to communicate course logistics to the class. Once an Announcement is created, Canvas will notify students according to their preferred Notification Preferences.

By default, Announcements in Canvas allow students to reply/comment. If you do not wish students to comment on Announcements, it will be necessary to disable comments within Course settings.

To learn more about Announcements, feel free to view the Announcement Overview Video and the Announcement Tutorials on this page.

Announcement Tutorials

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Add/View People

by adminCanvas Course Design

In Canvas, the People link is similar to Users and Groups in Blackboard. Within the People link instructors can:

  1. View all the users participating in the course.
  2. Manage users.
  3. Add people to the course.
  4. Manage user groups in the course.
  5. Search for a user.
  6. Filter users by role.

As with Blackboard, most rosters will be loaded into the system prior to the start of the course. It should only be necessary for instructors to add additional instructors or TAs to the course.

To learn more about the People link, feel free to view the People Overview Video and the People Tutorials on this page.

To learn more about customizing the Course Navigation menu, feel free to view the Navigation Tutorials.

People Tutorials

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