Grading and Feedback
Peer Assessment using Canvas Peer Review
This article provides practical guidance for staff and students using peer reviews in Canvas.
Troubleshooting Canvas Peer Review Issues
This guide outlines the most common issues staff and students may encounter when using Canvas peer reviews and provides practical steps to resolve them.
Managing Canvas Peer Reviews
This guide walks you through managing allocations, monitoring completion, reviewing peer reviews, and releasing grades and feedback in Canvas.
How to set up a Canvas Peer Review Assignment
This article guides you through creating a peer review assignment in Canvas.
Why is Canvas not calculating my rubric grades
Canvas can automatically calculate and transfer rubric grades to the Grades screen when the correct setting is enabled. This guide explains what to do if you have used a rubric for grading and Canvas has not automatically calculated the rubric score. Contents Why is my rubric not calculating the total score? A common issue when […]
How to mark a Cadmus assignment
When marking a Cadmus assignment you must have the option to mark via Canvas SpeedGrader selected when setting up your Cadmus assignment. To mark submissions in SpeedGrader you will need to select it as your marking tool when setting up the Requirements for your Cadmus assessment. To select SpeedGrader as your marking tool It is important to […]
Managing the Release of Grades and Feedback
This guide covers how to manage the release of marks and feedback via the Canvas Gradebook. We will look at the Grade Posting Policy, where you can control whether grades are posted automatically or manually. We will also cover quiz settings, which allow us to control the release of quiz scores and feedback to students. […]
Changes to SpeedGrader
Contents Overview From the start of Semester 2 there will be minor changes to the SpeedGrader interface in Canvas. Canvas has implemented these changes to improve performance including reduction in crashes and faster loading times, particularly for large cohorts. These changes should hopefully improve the marking experience for staff. Changes to the SpeedGrader interface The […]
Grades and feedback Staff vs Student View
This article looks at how staff can enter feedback in Canvas assignments, what feedback looks like for students when released and what types of feedback can and cannot be bulk downloaded. Contents Feedback and grade visibility A manual grade posting policy is used by default in Canvas courses, this means that assignment grades and feedback […]
Managing submissions and grading a Gradescope Homework assignment
Gradescope Homework assignments allow students to submit handwritten or typed work. This article provides an of the processes for managing submissions, grading submissions and releasing grades. For information on setting up a Homework assignment see: Setting up a Gradescope Homework assignment. Contents Using rubrics to grade submissions During the Grade submission phase you can select appropriate […]