Video Feedback on Canvas
What is it? Providing timely and useful feedback to students on their work is important for so many reasons. We know that constructive feedback can help students improve their work and allows them to think critically about their progress as they move through a course…
Top 5 Potential Assessment Set-up Pitfalls
There are a few potential pitfalls that can easily be avoided when setting up assignments and assignment weighting within Canvas. Luckily, we’ve seen a lot of them before and the advice below will make sure you don’t fall into them! 1. Incorrect Assignment Weighting There…
Lifting the Mask of Anonymous Grading
Canvas provides you with the option to enable anonymisation when setting up an assignment.
Steps To Prepare
Set Your Grade Posting Policy To Manual: The ‘Global Setting’ Level: In your Canvas course, click ‘Grades.’ Click the ‘Cogwheel’ (at top right-hand corner of the screen.) Click the ‘Grade Posting Policy’ tab. Ensure the radio button is set to ‘Manually Post Grades.’ Click…
Set Up and Administration of Assignments
Make the instructions clear and unambiguous: In your Canvas course, click ‘Assignments.’ Click ‘+Assignment’ to start setting up your assignment. Give your assignment a title e.g. ‘Demo Assignment’ and enter all the ‘instructions to students’ into the into the box below. Note: The Canvas…
Marking Submissions In Speedgrader and Releasing Grades/Feedback in Gradebook
1. Make sure all markers have access to the Canvas course in advance: Contact your school admin staff to add or amend staff roles (Teacher, TA, etc) in QSIS, these will transfer over to Canvas within 24-48 hours. For more information on Canvas roles….
Show & Tell Session (Nov 2020)
Theme: Assessment and Feedback Digital Learning Teams from across the institution coordinate the monthly ‘Online Teaching Show & Tell’ sessions, where staff are invited to share their own experiences of online and blended teaching. The first session of the series kicked off at lunchtime on Thursday…
Alternative Resit Assessments in Canvas
When preparing for Alternative Resit Assessment in Canvas in August 2020, the guidance remains the same as advised during the alternative assessment period in May 2020 with regards to the Top 9 Key Consideration for use of Canvas (see below). A reminder to keep it…
Building Good Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
This blog post aims to consider how multiple choice questions can be used to effectively assess learning outcomes and to provide useful and actionable feedback to students who sit the assessment. To consider what a good MCQ looks like we need to think about each…
Using objective tests (MCQs) for feedback in Canvas
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and other such objective test questions are often thought of as a method of testing learners knowledge or, if well constructed, other higher level cognitive abilities (see our blog on writing good MCQs). In this blog post we will consider the…
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