Grading

Overview

If you've set up assignments so that students submit them via Canvas, you'll see ungraded assignments in your Dashboard or Course to-do list.  Clicking that will take you to SpeedGrader, which lets you grade, add annotations, add comments (text, audio/video, and even a nifty speech-to-text tool in Chrome).

Teachers can also go to Grades to enter scores.  That looks like a spreadsheet with rows and columns.

One very useful feature in Grades -  click the pull-down arrow in the column header to send messages to particular students (students who didn't turn it in, students who got a low score, etc.).


 

SpeedGrader

 SpeedGrader Overview Links to an external site.

When grading an Assignment with the file submission turned on and the student has submitted a file in certain formats (.doc/.docx, .ppt/.pptx, and .pdf), you can annotate student submissions. Note that those annotations cannot be viewed by screen readers, so for usability purposes the same information should be provided in the comments field of the sidebar.

Students can view their feedback in two ways: via their submission view if the graded assignment was submitted online (Graded Discussion, Quizzes, and online Assignments) and via the Grades link in Course Navigation. Students can only see their own grades and not those of their classmates.

The student view includes a nifty "What-If" feature that allows them to forecast future grades based on upcoming assignments. It also shows both their current score (based on assignments graded) as well as their total score (including all points possible for the course).

 

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