Need help with essential information and resources to effectively manage assignments and foster meaningful discussions in Canvas? Here, you'll learn how to create, organize, and grade assignments, ensuring they align with your course objectives. Additionally, you'll find guidance on facilitating engaging discussions that encourage student participation and collaboration. Explore our step-by-step tutorials and best practices to enhance the learning experience in your courses. Our aim is to equip you with the tools and knowledge necessary to create a dynamic and interactive classroom environment.
This feature provides instructors with concise summaries of key points, questions, and ideas from discussion threads. It's designed to streamline the teaching process, which is particularly beneficial where managing discussions can be challenging.
Canvas Discussions redesign offers many exciting opportunities to bolster collaboration through many modern, flexible discussion features. This redesign takes some of the impactful legacy functionality and gives it a modern UI, improved peer-to-peer interaction, and more robust moderation tools for instructors.
Allows one to specify an assignment submission to be reviewed by one or multiple graders, review the assignment grades, and select which grade should be set as the final grade for each student.
When copying a group assignment from one course to another in Canvas, a new group set with the same name as the original will now be created in the destination course if no matching group set exists. This update improves consistency and organization by ensuring that copied assignments are linked to newly created group sets rather than defaulting to the Project Groups set. This change helps maintain a clearer structure when managing group assignments across different courses.
Anonymous grading in Canvas: hides student identities from graders in SpeedGrader, promoting unbiased evaluation. Additionally, anonymous grading defaults to a manual posting policy, meaning grades will not be visible to students until they are officially posted.
Anonymous Instructor Annotations allows instructors to create assignments with anonymous instructor annotations in DocViewer-supported submissions.
Streamline the assignment experience for students, making it easier to navigate their submissions and understand grading criteria. By providing clear visibility into submission attempts, feedback, and grading rubrics, it fosters a more transparent educational environment.