Canvas assignments can be used for both formative and summative assessments. The Assignment tool allows students to submit a file or URL within your course for the submission of a website or other online activity such as a personal portfolio. All assignments are collected in the grades area where you can add feedback via SpeedGrader.
The grades area allows you to organise your students submitted assessments and view all students on your course. Filters can also be used to identify individuals or groups of students. Assignments are arranged in columns and you can quickly identify who has submitted work.
When 'Use this rubric for assignment grading' is enabled within a rubric, the completed rubric score is automatically transferred to the assignment grade within the Canvas Gradebook.
See: Creating and Using Enhanced Rubric
SpeedGrader is where you can review a student's work and provide feedback. There are numerous ways to provide feedback including annotations, general comments, recording a video, screen capture or adding audio comments. You can also attach files.
Creating and Using Enhanced Rubrics
Canvas Enhanced Rubrics provides an updated interface for creating, managing and using rubrics with Canvas Assignments, Graded Discussions and New Quizzes.
See: Creating and Using Enhanced Rubrics
If there are multiple markers on your course, you may want to consider using the 'Enable SpeedGrader to launch filtered by group' option. This allows each marker to access SpeedGrader and only view a specific set of students work for marking.
Marking Groups
The best to way to mark with multiple markers is to create a marking group for each tutor in the people area of your course. Students can be allocated manually or automatically depending on your preferences:
Turn on the setting to Launch SpeedGrader filtered by group for your course and then use the Groups filter to specify your marking group. When you launch SpeedGrader, only these students added to this group will appear for marking. This is your personal marking view, other markers will only be able to see their own view.
Anonymous Marking
Where an assignment uses a rubric, continue to use marking groups and SpeedGrader filtering to ensure each marker grades their allocated students.
Using Enhanced Rubrics
If an assignment includes a rubric, each submission has a single rubric assessment. Continue to use marking groups and SpeedGrader filtering so that each marker grades their allocated students.
For guidance on creating and using rubrics, see Creating and Using Enhanced Rubrics.
Marks-to-SIS is a new Canvas functionality. It brings together a number of enhancements that reduce manual work for academics and school admin teams, while improving the accuracy and consistency of assessment data across the university.
See: Marks-to-SIS
The Teaching and Learning Academy have developed a feedback dashboard allowing you to access all feedback in Canvas (with some exceptions) for an individual student across all courses. You can then use this to discuss, with the student, how they might use this feedback to help them improve their future submissions.
Access Feedback Dashboard
