Grading & Evaluating Work

Overview

Canvas has a suite of features for providing grades and feedback to students.

Rubrics
- - Create a rubric in a course
- - Add a rubric to an assignment
- - Add a rubric to a graded discussion
- - Add a rubric to a quiz
- - Edit a rubric in a course
- - Manage rubrics in a course
- - Align an outcome with a rubric in a course
New Gradebook
Gradebook
- - Using the Gradebook
- - View assignments or students individually
- - Using grading periods in a course
- - Icons and colors in the Gradebook
- - Viewing assignment details in the Gradebook
- - Assignment columns for non-submission assignments
- - Hide student names
- - Entering and editing grades
- - Excusing an assignment for a student
- - View the history of all grading changes
- - Leave comments for students
- - Send a message to my students from the Gradebook
- - Setting a default grade for an assignment
- - Curve grades in the Gradebook
- - Mute or unmute an assignment
- - View a student’s Grades page
- - Viewing a student’s submission details page
- - View my students’ total grades as a point value instead of a percentage
- - Sorting columns in the Gradebook
- - Move the Total column
- - Using the Notes column
- - View grades for concluded student enrollments
- - View grades for inactive student enrollments
- - Download all student submissions for an assignment
- - Upload all student submissions for an assignment
- - Download grades
- - Upload changes
- - Post final grades for a moderated assignment as a moderator
- - Treat ungraded assignments as zero
- - Accessing SpeedGrader from the Gradebook
  - Submit Final Grades to Courses InTouch
SpeedGrader
- - Access SpeedGrader from an assignment, quiz, or graded discussion
- - How do I use SpeedGrader?
- - Use the student list to view student submissions
- - Sort the student list
- - Grade group assignments
- - View the details of a submission for a student
- - Enable anonymous grading to hide student names
- - Mute or unmute an assignment
- - Add annotated comments in student submissions using DocViewer
- - Enter and edit grades
- - Use a rubric to grade submissions
- - Use free-form comments instead of ratings in a rubric
- - Leave feedback comments for student submissions in SpeedGrader
- - Using Chrome’s speech recognition feature to leave a comment in SpeedGrader
- - Review moderated assignments in SpeedGrader as a moderator
- - Grade Turnitin assignments in SpeedGrader
- - Download all student submissions for an assignment
- - Upload all student submissions for an assignment
- - Grade quiz questions in SpeedGrader
- - Adjust the point value for an entire quiz using fudge points in SpeedGrader
- - Grade one quiz question at a time in SpeedGrader
- - Grade a graded discussion in SpeedGrader
  - DocViewer (Under Construction)
End-of-Term Grading Checklist