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Spotting Missed Submissions in Canvas
Use the Canvas Gradebook filters to quickly spot students missing key assessments.
Managing Custom Deadlines in Canvas
Canvas allows you to easily manage extended deadlines for students with DASS requirements or approved mitigating circumstances.
Creating File Upload Assignments
Contents Introduction Perhaps the most common type of assignment used across the faculty, file uploads are exactly what they say they are – they allow students to upload a file as their submission, whether that be an essay in PDF format, a PowerPoint presentation or a graph presented as a JPEG. For the purposes of […]
Important Notice: Do Not Use Canvas Late Policies
Canvas includes features that allow automatic penalties and deductions for late or missing assignments. However, these tools have not been fully tested or evaluated for their impact on grading, student experience or institutional policy. Please do not enable or use the Late Policies functionality under any circumstances without first consulting the A&P and eLearning teams. […]
Student Guide: How to find Assessments on Canvas
Assessments in Canvas can take the form of Assignments or Quizzes. This guide shows you where to find them in your course, whether they are listed under the Assignments or Quizzes menus, added directly into Modules, or displayed in your To Do list and Calendar. Contents Find your assignments Assignments will always be listed in the Assignments area of your course. To find your assignments: Find your […]
Differentiation Tags
Differentiation tags are a brand new Canvas function that are now available across Canvas courses. These tags allow you to categorise students within your course without their knowledge, whether that be for differentiating assignments between students, or for identifying students who are eligible for automatic assignment extensions. Importantly, you can also use these tags to Assign To – meaning that you can use tags to grant those extensions, and assign different assignments to different cohorts.
Using ‘Assign To’ – What Do Students See?
If you’ve used the Assign To feature to differentiate due dates or availability for individual students or sections, you might be wondering how that appears from the student perspective. Read on to find out exactly what students can (and can’t) see when this setting is in use. Contents Introduction By default, all assignments in a […]