teaching onlinerecording grades: Speedgrader

overview

SpeedGrader is a tool that allows you to rapidly move through assignments, grading and leaving comments (including comments directly on the submitted document). You can use it to:

Sort submissions by student and hide student names for anonymous grading
View submission details for each student, including resubmitted assignments
Use rubrics to assign grades
Leave feedback for your students
Track your grading progress and hide assignments while grading
View submissions in moderated assignments

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View SpeedGrader

For each student, SpeedGrader has five areas:

View student submissions (text entries, website URLs, media recordings, and/or file uploads); preview supported file types in Canvas DocViewer (see below); review other file format submissions using the document previewer or Google Preview
Assign a grade based on your preferred assessment method (points or percentage)
View Rubric to assist with grading (if one is added to the assignment)
View comments created by you or the student about the assignment
Create text, video, and/or audio commentary for the student

TIP: Before you start grading in SpeedGrader, click the "Mute Assignment" link at the top right so that students will not see their grades and feedback until you have completed the grading for the class and "unmuted" the assignment.

Canvas Guide for SpeedGrader (Links to an external site.) and SpeedGrader Overview Script.

Anything graded in SpeedGrader is automatically recorded in the gradebook. From within the gradebook, instructors can instantly jump into the SpeedGrader for a specific assignment.

ACCESSING SPEEDGRADER

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There are two ways to access SpeedGrader, directly from the assignment or through the gradebook.

OPTION 1: Assignment

Access Speedgrader through an assignment, quiz, or graded discussion.

STEP 1: Click on the name of an assignment in either the Assignment Index or the Module Index.

STEP 2: Click on the Speedgrader link in the sidebar on the right-hand side under Related Items.

FROM A DISCUSSION: Click on the Options icon and click the Speedgrader link. Open SpeedGrader from a Graded Discussion

OPTION 2: Grade book

Access Speedgrader through the Grade book

STEP 1: Click on Options icon in the Assignment Menu.

STEP 2: Click on the Speedgrader link.

Information on the Canvas Teacher app for your type of device can be found in the following User Guides:

Docviewer (speedgrader)

DocViewer is a tool in SpeedGrader that allows teacher (and peer reviewers) to comment directly on students online assignment submissions in Canvas. [This is similar to what you can do in Microsoft Office or Google Docs.]

DocViewer Overview (Links to an external site.) from Canvas LMS (Links to an external site.)

See the following guide for more information on how to use Crocodoc for Assignment grading - How do I use DocViewer in Canvas Assignments? (Links to an external site.)

How can students view DocViewer Feedback?

Students often get confused about where to go to view Docviewer feedback in Canvas. To help lessen the confusion, we recommend providing the link to this guide to your students - How do I view assignment feedback comments from my Instructor using DocViewer annotations?

TIPS

Docviewer only supports .doc/.docx, .ppt/.pptx, .xls/.xlsx, and .pdf file formats. [UPDATE: The June 2018 update to Canvas should add DocViewer annotations to images: “DocViewer annotations can be added to BMP, JPEG, JPG, PNG, TIF, and TIFF images in SpeedGrader”] Crocodoc does NOT support text box submissions or other file types.

Additional Resources (Links to an external site.)

- How Your Students can Submit Handwritten Work with CamScanner or FlipGrid.
  - This Circle of Innovation article appeared in April 4th, 2018.
  - Feel free to use the following video in your course to show students how to scan handwritten work and upload to Canvas