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
  • • Introducing the New Canvas Gradebook
    • New Gradebook Overview
    • New Gradebook FAQ
•  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, editing, or excusing a grade or 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
  • • Use grade posting/hiding policies
  • • View a student’s grades or 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 or 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
  • • Post or hide assignment grades
  • • 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
• End-of-Term Grading Checklist

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2023