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    • Access Canvas
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  • Get Started In Canvas
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    • Canvas-Supported Browsers
    • Customize User Display Settings
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    • Options To Organize Content
    • Set Up A Homepage
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      • Remove announcements when copying a Canvas site
      • Adjusting dates when copying a Canvas site
    • Recommended Course-level Settings
    • Modify Your Course Menu
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    • Get Started With Modules
    • Get Started With Pages
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    • Student View
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    • Library Content
    • Add Media In Canvas
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  • Assignments and Grades
    • Get Started With Assignments
    • Get Started with Quizzes
      • Building a Quiz and Grading a Quiz
      • Quiz Options for Supporting Academic Integrity and Accommodating Individual Student Needs
      • Get Started with LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor
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      • Migrating Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes
      • Building a New Quiz
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      • New Quizzes Support for Academic Integrity
      • Grading New Quizzes
    • Get Started with the Gradebook
      • Posting Grades and Feedback
      • Troubleshooting in the Canvas Gradebook
    • Take Attendance In Canvas
    • Student View Of Grades
    • SpeedGrader
    • Grading Schemes
    • Rubrics
    • Peer Review
    • Canvas Discussions
  • People and Groups
    • Add People To Canvas
    • User Roles + Permissions
    • Get Started With Groups
    • Get Started With Analytics
  • Model Canvas Courses
  • Canvas Guide for Students
    • Changing Your Display Name and Setting Pronouns
    • Syllabus Search Student Guide
    • Using the Immersive Reader

Assignments and Grades

Updated on January 23, 2023

One of the most helpful aspects of Canvas is its ability to assist instructors in setting up and managing an online grade book and all of this within the context of Canvas’ communication system that, by default, will inform students of their grades once you have entered them.  In order to use the Gradebook most effectively, you will need to become familiar with both ‘Assignments‘ and ‘Grades.’

About Assignments

Canvas allows a variety of student work to be added to a course site as Assignments, including writings and recordings, Discussions, Quizzes, and readings and other preparation work not formally graded.  See the links at the bottom of this page for information on setting up Assignments.

Anything added as an Assignment in Canvas can be used in a number of ways:

  • It appears on the calendar and Syllabus list, so students can track tasks more conveniently.
  • It can easily be linked to any other part of the site where the rich text editor is used.
  • Any results are displayed to students in Grades.
  • Results can also be brought into the calculations of a grading scheme for the course.

 

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