Instructional Design Grading in Canvas – Overview

Feedback through grading is a powerful way to communicate with and engage your students. How do you assess student learning? Canvas has several grading tools that can help you assess student performance and provide significant feedback on their work.

Learning Objectives

Understand and be prepared to use grading options and tools available in Canvas.
Create and use a rubric for grading in SpeedGrader.
Enhance instructor presence and student engagement by using Canvas's grading tools.

Quick View

If you are new to Canvas or the Canvas Gradebook, you will likely want to move through this module from the beginning, but if you are already familiar with rubrics and SpeedGrader, you may want to choose the areas on which you would like to focus:

Using Rubrics - this page and video provides an overview of where and how rubrics can be used.
How to Build a Rubric - this interactive simulation walks you through how to build a rubric from scratch.
Using SpeedGrader to Communicate - this interactive helps you identify where you can use SpeedGrader and how you can use it, including how to use it with rubrics.
SpeedGrader Alternatives - this video shows you how to download students' submissions for you to grade and re-upload.
Quiz: Grading - test your knowledge of rubrics and SpeedGrader. Don't worry; you can take the quiz as many times as you like, and the feedback will direct you to resources you might need to review.