Grading & SpeedGrader in Canvas
The Gradebook stores all information about student progress in the course, measuring both letter grades and course outcomes. As you create graded assignments, they are automatically added to the gradebook.
Our YouTube playlist has many videos on grading.
Be sure to view our Banner grade exchange playlist to see how to send Canvas grades to Banner.
310 - Gradebook Overview from Instructure Canvas Community on Vimeo.
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How do I use the Gradebook?
Using SpeedGrader
SpeedGrader is the Canvas tool for viewing student assessment submissions and providing feedback. Using SpeedGrader should help cut down on the time you spend grading and make grading easier! A video overview of SpeedGrader is also available.
You can use SpeedGrader to do the following:
- Read written submissions in the DocViewer and use the annotation tools to provide feedback within the document.
- Give feedback comments—written, multimedia, or as a file attachment—on the student’s work as a whole.
- Give a score.
- Use a rubric to assign points for meeting criteria and add comments. If the rubric is used for grading, the rubric score will transfer to the student’s grade for the assignment.
- View individual student responses to quizzes as well as logs of each student’s quiz attempts.
Accessing SpeedGrader
You can access SpeedGrader either directly from the assignment or through the Gradebook.
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How do I get to SpeedGrader from an assignment, quiz, or graded discussion?
Adapted from “Grading in Canvas” in Start Here 102: Best Practices in Online instruction, licensed CC BY 4.0 by Grace Seo, University of Missouri.