Canvas provides tools for reviewing student work, providing feedback, marking scores and calculating course grades. Remember to grade student submissions and provide feedback to your students in a timely manner.
Evaluate Student Progress
Collect Student Work and Submissions
Use the Canvas Assignment tool to collect student work. Be sure to set these assignments for online submissions.
For more information see:
- How do I create an assignment?
- What assignment types can I create in a course?
- How do I add or edit details in an assignment? (includes how to create an online submission assignment)
Grade Student Work
Every Canvas assignment, graded discussion and quiz includes SpeedGrader for easily reviewing student work, marking scores, and providing annotations and feedback.
For more information see:
Make Student Grades Available in the Gradebook
Use the Gradebook to easily input, manage, and release grades to students.
For more information see:
- Gradebook Overview video (9:06 minutes)
- How do I hide or post assignment grades in SpeedGrader?
Provide Feedback to Students
There are a number of Canvas tools that may be used to provide feedback to students.
SpeedGrader
Canvas SpeedGrader lets you add comments for each assignment submission.
For more information see:
- How do I leave feedback comments for student submissions in SpeedGrader?
- How do I add annotated comments in student submissions using DocViewer in SpeedGrader?
Gradebook
Canvas Gradebook also allows you to provide feedback to students.
For more information see How do I leave comments for students in the Gradebook?
Inbox
Canvas Inbox can be used to send a private message to a student.
For more information see:
Create Online Assessments
Learn strategies for creating new or adapting your existing quizzes or exams for online delivery.
Submit Course Grades to PeopleSoft
If you are using the Canvas Gradebook for recording and calculating course grades, you can export your final course grades directly to PeopleSoft (Faculty Center).
For more information see Canvas: Send Grades to PeopleSoft.
To get additional support for PeopleSoft, contact your department administrator or [email protected].
Promote Academic Integrity in an Online Environment
For more information see:
- Promoting Academic Integrity in Your Course (Office for Community Standards)
- Canvas: Add Proctorio to a Quiz (Office of Information Technology)
- Exam Security (Office of Information Technology)
- Academic Integrity (Center for Educational Innovation)
- UMN Proctorio resources (for remote proctoring primarily targeted for the online environment)
- UMN TurnitIn resources (for general plagiarism detection)
- UMN Respondus LockDown Browser resources (a custom browser that locks down your computer when taking a quiz)