Service Alert
Hege Library & Learning Technologies
Service Alert
Hege Library & Learning Technologies
From Canvas: what are assignments?
"Assignments include Quizzes, graded Discussions, and online submissions (i.e. files, images, text, URLs, etc.). Assignments in Canvas can be used to challenge students' understanding and help assess competency by using a variety of media. The Assignments page shows students all of the Assignments that will be expected of them and how many points each is worth.
Assignments can be assigned to everyone in the course or differentiated by section or user."
If you want to learn more about the difference between an Assignment and an Activity in Canvas, check out "What is the difference between a Canvas Assignment and a Canvas Activity?" in the Canvas Instructor Guide.
Walkthroughs from the Canvas Guides, relating to Assignments (more information on Quizzes and Discussions, as well as on grading, is below):
Assignment groups, which you can create from the course Assignments page, allow you to group your assignments in order to organize them, and set up weighted grading if you so desire.
Check out these walkthroughs for more information:
From Canvas: what are quizzes?
"Quizzes in Canvas are assignments that can be used to challenge student understanding and assess comprehension of course material. The quiz tool is used to create and administer online quizzes and surveys. Quizzes can also be used to conduct and moderate exams and assessments, both graded and ungraded.
Canvas has four different types of quizzes:
Walkthroughs from the Canvas Guides:
Canvas is in the process of rolling out a new quizzing tool, called New Quizzes (formerly known as Quizzes.Next). We have not yet rolled this tool out at Guilford College yet. You can view Canvas's timeline and walkthroughs for New Quizzes, and you will receive communications from Hege Library & Learning Technologies as the tool is rolled out at Guilford.
From Canvas: what are discussions?
"Canvas provides an integrated system for class discussions, allowing both instructors and students to start and contribute to as many discussion topics as desired. Discussions allows for interactive communication between two or more people; users can participate in a conversation with an entire class or group.
Discussions can also be created as an assignment for grading purposes (and seamlessly integrated with the Canvas Gradebook), or simply serve as a forum for topical and current events. Discussions can also be created within student groups.
Discussion topics can be organized as focused or threaded discussions. Focused discussions only allow for two levels of nesting, the original post and subsequent replies. Threaded discussions allow for infinite levels of nesting. Focused discussions are relatively short-lived interactions, while threaded discussions allow replies within replies and may last for a longer period of time."
Walkthroughs from the Canvas Guides:
From Canvas: how do I use the gradebook?
"The Gradebook helps instructors easily view and enter grades for students. Depending on the Grade display type, grades for each assignment can be viewed as points, percentage, complete or incomplete, GPA scale, or letter grade.
Only graded assignments, graded discussions, graded quizzes, and graded surveys that have been published display in the Gradebook. Not Graded assignments are not included.
The default view in the Gradebook is to view all students at a time, but you can also view students individually in the Gradebook Individual View. However, Individual View currently does not support all settings and options from the Gradebook."
310 - Gradebook Overview from Instructure Canvas Community on Vimeo.
Walkthroughs from the Canvas Guides:
From Canvas: what is SpeedGrader?
"As an instructor, SpeedGrader allows you to view and grade student assignment submissions in one place using a simple point scale or complex rubric. Canvas accepts a variety of document formats and even URLs as assignment submissions. Some document assignments can be marked up for feedback directly within the submission. You can also provide feedback to your students with text or media comments."
311 - SpeedGrader™ Overview from Instructure Canvas Community on Vimeo.
Walkthroughs from the Canvas Guides: