Canvas 103 Assessment and Grading

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Canvas103AssessmentandGrading

Assessment

Quizzes:

CreatingaQuiz

AQuizcanbeusedtoconductasurveyorassessastudent'scomprehensionofcoursecontent.This

assignmentwillappearontheAssignmentsIndexPage,theQuizzesIndexPage,theGradebook,the

CanvasSyllabus(notanuploadedsyllabusfile),andontheUserDashboard.

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Canvashasfourdifferenttypesofquizzes:

● Agradedquizisthemostcommonquiz,andCanvasautomaticallycreatesacolumninthe

Gradebookforanygradedquizzesyoubuild.

● Apracticequizisungradedandcanbeusedasalearningtooltohelpstudentsseehowwell

theyunderstandthecoursematerial.Practicequizzesdonotappearinthesyllabusor

Gradebook(norintheAssignmentsIndexpage).

● Agradedsurveyallowsyoutogivestudentspointsforcompletingthesurvey;however,itis

notgradedbasedonrightorwronganswers.

● Anungradedsurveyallowsyoutoobtainopinionsorotherinformationfromstudents;

however,studentsdonotreceiveagradefortheirresponses.Ungradedsurveysdonot

appearinthesyllabusorGradebook.

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QuizSettings:

● QuizType

● AssignmentGroup

● ShuffleAnswers(becarefulwithm/c)

● TimeLimit

● AllowMultipleAttemptsexpandedmenu

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● Letstudentsseetheirquizresponses(likeReviewtabinANGEL)expandedmenu

● Letstudentsseethecorrectanswer

● QuizRestrictionsexpandedmenu

● Assignto…

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AddingQuestionsandQuestionTypes

Inthequestiontypedropdownmenu,youcancreatethefollowingtypesofquizquestions:

● MultipleChoice

● True/False

● FillintheBlank

● FillinMultipleBlanks

● MultipleAnswers

● MultipleDropdown(canbeusedforLikertscale)

● Matching

● NumericalAnswer

● Formula(simpleformulaandsinglevariable)

● Essay

● FileUpload

SaveQuiz

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ClicktheSavebuttontosaveyourworkandpreviewthequiz.

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Note:Ifyouarereadytopublishyourquizandmakeitavailabletostudents,clicktheSave&Publish

button.

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PreviewandPublishQuiz

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ClickthePreviewbutton[1]toseewhatstudentswillseewhentheytakethequiz.

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Note:Althoughyoucanmakechangestothequizafteritispublished,studentswhohavealready

openedorcompletedthequizwillnotseeanyofthechanges,whichmayaffecttheirgrades.

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Settingsicon(aftersaving):

● Showtherubricforaquiztoevaluatestudentanswers,suchasforessayquestions

● Lockthisquiznowsothatstudentscannotaccessthequizonceitispublished.Thequiztitle

willstillbevisibletostudentsbuttheywillbeunabletoopenthequiz

● Deletethisquiz

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Oncethequizispublished,theadditionalsettingsinclude:

● Previewthequiz

● Showstudentquizresultsfromstudentswhohavetakenthequiz

● Messagestudentswhohavetakenthequizalreadyorwhohaven'tyettakenthequiz

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Inthesidebar,youalsohaveaccesstorelatedquizfeatures: 

● Showquizstatistics

● Moderatethisquizandgrantstudentsmoretimeoradditionalattempts

● GradequizintheSpeedGrader™

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QuestionBanks:

Quizzes>Settings>ManageQuestionBanks

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Clickontitletoopenaquestionbank

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ClickonAddQuestionBanktocreateanewquestionbank

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AfteropeningtheQuestionBank,youcan:

● AddaQuestion

● EditQuestionBankDetails

● MoveMultipleQuestions 

● DeleteQuestionBank

● AlignOutcomes

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Addasmanyindividualquestionsasyouwishtoyourquestionbank.ClicktheUpdateQuestion

buttontosaveyourchanges.

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Nowyoucanreferencethissinglebankofquestionsfromanyquizinyourcourse.

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Touseaquestionbankinmorethanonecourse,usetheImportCourseContenttoolunderthe

Settingsforthecourseyouwishtoimporttheminto.Selectthecoursethequestionbankisinand

choosetoimportspecificcontentandthenchoosethebankfromtheQuestionBanklist.

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Whenusingquestionbanks,besuretomakechangeswithintheQuestionBankbeforelinkingthe

quiztothequestionbank.Althoughyoucanmakechangestothequestionbankafteraquizis

published,studentswhohavealreadyopenedorcompletedthequizwillnotseeanyofthe

changes,whichmayaffecttheirgrades.

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QuestionGroups

Groupquestionstogetherinordertouseacertainnumberofquestionsfroma‘pool’ofquestions.For

instance,createagroupof10questionsandpull5ofthequestionsforeachstudent.

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RegradingaQuiz

Ifyouaccidentallypublishedaquizthatneedstobecorrected,youcanusequizregradetoedit

existingquizquestionsandtellCanvastoupdatestudentgrades.

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Quizregradeonlyworkswithspecificquizquestiontypesandonlyappliestostudentswho

havealreadytakenthequiz.Addingorremovingaquestiondoesnottriggerthequizregrade

feature.Additionally,changingthepointvalueforaquizquestionalsodoesnottriggeraquizregrade;

thestudent'ssubmittedquizwillshowtheupdatedpointvalue,butthecurrentgradewon'tchangein

theGradebook.Ifyouhaveeditedyourquizinoneofthesethreeways,youshouldmoderatethequiz

andletthestudentretakethequiz.

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Thisfeatureonlyappliesforstudentswhohavealreadytakenthequizandonlytheexistingquiz

questionshavebeenchanged.

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Rubrics:

CreatingRubrics

Outcomes>ManageRubrics>AddRubric

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Rubricscanbecreatedandstoredatboththecourselevelandataccountlevelswithinan

organization.InstructorscanaccesstheserubricsandattachthemtoAssignments,Quizzesand

DiscussionsanywhereinCanvas.

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1. AddaTitle

2. ClicktheEditiconnexttotheCriterionnametoedittheCriteriondescription.ClicktheView

LongerDescriptionlinktoeditthecriterion'slongerdescription.

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3. AddRubricRatingsToaddarubric

rating,mouseoveracellwallandclickthe

doubleendedarrowtosplitasinglecellinto

two[1].Splitcellsontherowasoftenas

necessarytocreatedthedesirednumberof

ratings[2].

4. Hoverovertherubricratingyouwishto

edit.ClicktheEditicon[1]toedittherubric

rating.ClicktheTrashicon[2]todeletethe

rubricrating.ClickthePlusicon[3]toadd

anotherrating.

5. Deletecriterionusingtheblue‘x’atthe

endoftherow;Addcriteriononlowerleftside

(+AddCriterion).

6. ClickCreateRubrictosave.

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Editanexistingrubric

Outcomes>ManageRubrics>ClickontitleofrubricifalreadyimportedfromANGEL.

Ifyoualreadyimportedarubric(ormore),youcaneditthatrubricbyfollowingthepathabove.Then

clickonthetitleofthatrubricorthepenciliconthatpopsuptotherightofthetitle.Youcanalso

deletearubricfromthispage.

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Addarubrictoaquiz

1. GototheQuizzesindexpageofyourcourse.

2. Clickonthetitle

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ofthequiz.

3. ClickontheEditwheelontheupperrightandclickonShowRubric.

4. Choosetherubricyouwishtouseandclickon‘UseThisRubric’.

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Addarubrictoanassignment

1. Clickonthetitleoftheassignment(fromtheAssignmentsindexpage).

2. Clickon‘Addrubric’atthebottomofthepage.

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Addarubrictoagradeddiscussion

1. Clickonthetitleofthediscussion(fromtheDiscussionsindexpage).

2. Clickontheeditwheel(toprightcornerofpage).

3. ClickonAddrubric.

4. Ifyouwanttousetherubricforgrading,selecttheUsethisrubricforassignmentgrading

checkbox

5. Ifyouselecttheoptiontousetherubricforgrading,Canvaswillcomparetherubricscoreand

Discussionpoints

6. IfthenumberofpointsintherubricisdifferentthanthenumberofpointsintheDiscussion,

Canvaswillgenerateawarningmessagenotifyingthatthepointvaluesarenotequal.Click

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theChangebuttontoreturntoyourrubricandmakeadjustments.Otherwise,clicktheLeave

differentbutton.

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GradebookandSpeedGrader

TheGradebook(Grades)

IntheCanvasGradebook,instructorscan:

● Viewassignmentsubmissionnotificationsandassignmentdetails

● Downloadassignmentsubmissionsfromstudentstogradeorviewthemofflinewhenno

internetconnectionisavailable

● Manuallyenterstudentgrades

● Automaticallycalculatetotalandfinalgrades

● Assignzerosafterdeadline(thiswillsendanotificationouttostudents)

● Notifystudentswhenanassignmenthasbeengraded

● ImportorExportGradesasaCSVfile(JustlikeinANGEL,changesmadetoCSVfilewilltake

placeinCanvasoncereuploaded.Ifyouwanttocreatemultiplenewassignmentsormake

changes,downloadtheCSVfile,addtheassignmentsormakechanges,thenreupload.)

● Hidegradesfromstudentsuntiltheyarepublished(MuteAssignment)

● Messagestudentswhohaven’tsubmittedanassignmentyet,orwhoscoredmorethanXor

lessthanYonanassignment

● Leaveprivategradingnotes/commentsforthestudent

● Excuseanassignment,discussion,orquizforastudent

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ColumnsareautomaticallycreatedintheGradebookwhenyoucreateAssignments,graded

Discussions,andgradedQuizzesandSurveys.Acolumnisalsoautomaticallyaddedforthe

Attendancetool.

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TocreateacolumnintheGradebooktouseformanualgrading,youcancreateaNoSubmission

orOnPaperassignment.

● NoSubmissionassignmentsarewhenyoudonotwantstudentstosubmitanassignmentin

Canvas.ThisassignmenttypecanbeusedtocreateextracolumnsintheGradebook,create

anassignmentthatinvolvesmultiplescores,orgiveextracredit.

● OnPaperassignmentsarewhenyouwantstudentstosubmitanassignmenttoyoubutnot

throughCanvas.Thisassignmenttypeappliestotraditionalfacetofacecoursesorhybrid

courseswhenyouwanttheassignmentturnedinduringclass,butyoustillwanttocreatea

columnintheCanvasGradebookforgradingpurposes.Whenstudentviewtheassignment,

theyseeaSubmitting:onpapernotice.

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SortingandrearrangingthecolumnsintheGradebook:

Tosortstudentsinascendingordescendingorderbylastname,clicktheStudentNamecolumn

title.Thecolumnshowsstudentnames(firstname,lastname)butissortedbylastname.Note:To

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viewandsortyourGradebookviasortablename(lastname,firstname),youcanenabletheSortable

NameFeatureOptioninCourseSettings.

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SortbySecondaryID

Tosortstudentsinascendingordescendingorderbythestudent'ssecondaryID,clicktheSecondary

IDcolumntitle.

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SortbyGradePercentage

Tosortstudentsinascendingordescendingorderbygradepercentages,clicktheTotalgrade

percentagecolumntitle.

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SortbyIndividualAssignment

InanAssignmentcolumn,hoveryourcursoroverthe

assignmenttitleuntilthebluearrowappears[1].To

sortassignmentscoresinascendingordescending

order,clickthearrow.

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Studentswithincompletesubmissions(nosubmission

ornoassignedscore)willalwayssorttothebottom[2].

SortbyAssignmentGroup

Tosortthescoresinascendingordescendingorder,

clicktheAssignmentGroupNamecolumntitle.You

canonlysortbyassignmentgroupsifyouhaveaddedassignmentgroupstotheassignmentspage.

ResizeColumns

Tochangethesizeof

thecolumns,hoveryour

cursorbetween

columnsuntilyousee

theresizecursor[1].

Youcanhideacolumn

bydraggingthecursorsothatthecolumnbecomessmalleranddisappears[2].Youcanmakea

columnreappearbydraggingthecursorbackout.

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Rearrange

Columns

Torearrange

columns,hover

yourcursorover

thecolumn

headeryou

wanttomove

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untilyouseethehandcursor.Thendraganddropthecolumnwhereyouwantit.Note:Ifyou

rearrangecolumnsintheGradebook,theywillstayintheorderyouarrangedthemuntilyou

rearrangethem.

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ArrangeColumnsbyDueDate

ToarrangethecolumnsintheGradebookbyduedates,clicktheArrange

columnsbyduedatelink.

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Note:IfyourearrangecolumnsintheGradebook,theywillstayintheorder

youarrangedthemuntilyourearrangethem.

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OpenGradebookSettings

Formoresortingandarrangingoptions,click

theSettingsicon.

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Howtoweightthegradebook

YoucanweightfinalgradesbasedontheAssignmentGroupsweights.

1. FromtheAssignmentsindexpage,clicktheSettingsiconatthetoptoopentheassignments

settings.

2. ClicktheWeightfinalgradebasedonassignmentgroupscheckbox.

3. EnterthepercentageweightsforeachofthedifferentAssignmentGroupsyoucreated.The

percentageweightsyouspecifyherewilldeterminehowCanvascalculatesthefinalgradefor

yourcourse.Thesepercentagescanbechangedatanytimeandstudentswillbenotified

whenanychangesaremade.TheweightswillshowupintheGradebookforbothstudents

andinstructors.

4. ClicktheSavebuttonwhenyouarefinished.

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Treatungradeditemsaszero

Asaninstructor,youcanviewstudentgradesasifallungradedassignmentsasworthzeropointsin

theGradebook.ThisfeaturecalledTreatUngradedas0islocatedintheGradebookSettingsandis

onlyavisualchangethatdoesnotactuallyaffectanygrades—itonlyhelpsyouseethechangein

Gradebookcalculationsifungradedassignmentsweregivenscoresofzero.Enablingthisoptionhas

noeffectoutsideoftheGradebook;studentscannotseeanydifferenceintheirgradepages.

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Excuseastudentfroman

assignment:

Asneeded,youcanusethe

Gradebooktoexcuseastudent

fromanassignment,

discussion,orquiz.Youcan

alsoexcuseastudentfroma

groupassignment.Excused

assignmentsarenotcalculated

aspartofastudent'stotal

grade.

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Whenanassignmentis

excused,theassignmentpage

andthestudentgradepagewill

showthestudentthatheorshe

hasbeenexcusedfromtheassignment.Studentscannotsubmitexcusedassignments.

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Fromwithinthegradebook,clickonthecelloftheassignmentforthatstudentandtypeEXin

thecell.Thiswillexcusethatstudentfromthatassignment.

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UsingSpeedgrader

Asaninstructor,SpeedGrader:

● allowsyoutoviewandgradestudentassignmentsubmissionsinoneplaceusingasimple

pointscaleorcomplexrubric.

● acceptsavarietyofdocumentformatsandevenURLsasassignmentsubmissions.Some

documentassignmentscanbemarkedupforfeedbackdirectlywithinthesubmission.

● allowsyoutoprovidefeedbacktoyourstudentswithtextormediacomments.

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YoucanuseSpeedGraderto:

● Sortsubmissionsbystudentandhidestudentnamesforanonymousgrading

● Evaluateassignmentsforeachstudent,includingresubmittedassignments

● Userubricstoassigngrades 

● Leavefeedbackforyourstudents

● Trackyourgradingprogressandhideassignmentswhilegrading

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SpeedGraderhasfiveareas:

1. Viewstudentsubmissions

2. Assignagradebasedonyourpreferredassessmentmethod(pointsorpercentage)

3. ViewRubrictoassistwithgrading(ifoneisaddedtotheassignment)

4. Viewcommentscreatedbyyouorthestudentabouttheassignment

5. Createtext,video,and/oraudiocommentaryforthestudent

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GradingScheme(GradingScale)UnderCourse

“Settings”

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1. ClickonSettingswithinyourcourse

2. Check“Enablecoursegradingscheme”

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References:https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC4131Muchofthecontentinthishandoutwasadapted

fromtheCanvasDocTeam’sCanvasGuides