1. Go to your Canvas course.
2. Click Assignments, create an assignment.
3. Enter a name and description for your assignment.
4. (Optional) Enter a point value and due date.
5. Under Submission Type, select External Tool click Find.
6. Select Google Assignments.
7. Deselect Load This Tool In A New Tab.
8. Click Publish.

Note: If this is the first time you're using Google Assignments in Canvas, you must link your Canvas account to your Google Account.

The first time you use Google Assignments, you sign in with your F&M Google Account. Linking your account allows Google Assignments to create a folder in your Google Drive for student assignments and to send grades to Canvas.

You only have to link your Google Account once per course, while creating your first assignment. Students can't submit classwork until this step is completed.

Note: In Google Assignments, you can link only to your F&M Google account.

1. Open the first assignment you created for the course.
2. Choose an option:
   • If you're not signed in to a Google Account:
     1. Click Sign In and sign in to your F&M Google account.
     2. To link Canvas to your Google Account, click Link Account.
   • If you're signed in to a Google Account:
     • To link the course to your Google Account, click Link Account.
     • If you're signed in to multiple accounts and need to switch between Google Accounts, click Switch Account, or sign in to your F&M Google account.

You can attach files to as assignment so each student receives an individual copy to edit and turn in.

Example attachments include:

• Google Docs or Microsoft Word files for paper prompts
• PDFs for worksheets
• Sheets for data analysis
• Slides for presentations
• Sites for digital portfolios or final project templates
• Colab notebooks for programming exercises

1. In Canvas, select your course and create an assignment.
2. Under Submission Type, select External Tool click Find.
3. Click Google Assignments, which will open a popup window
4. If this is your first time using Google Assignments in the course, confirm your Google Account.
5. Select Create assignment.
6. Under Title, enter a name for the assignment.
7. Under Files, click Attach and select files.
8. (Optional) Enter a point value and due date.
9. Click Create. The Assignments window will close.
10. Click Select to finish selecting the external tool.

In Google Assignments, you can create, reuse, view, and grade rubrics for individual assignments. You can give feedback with scored or unscored rubrics. If you use scored rubrics, students see their score when you return their work.

1. Within your Canvas course assignment...→ click Open in Assignments.
2. Next to No rubric, click Add rubric Create rubric.
3. To turn off scoring for the rubric, next to Use scoring, click Turn off .
4. (Optional) If you turned on scoring, next to Sort the order of points by, select how to view the criteria, either descending or ascending in value.
5. Note: You can enter levels in any order, and rubrics automatically sorts the levels by value.
6. Under Criterion, enter your first criterion. For example, enter Grammar, Teamwork, or Citations.
7. (Optional) To add a criterion description, click More Add criterion description enter the description.
8. Under Points, enter the number of points awarded for the performance level.
9. Note: The rubric's total score automatically updates as you add points.
10. Under Level, enter a level of performance. For example, enter Excellent, Full mastery, or Level B.
11. Under Description, enter the performance expectations.
12. To add another performance level to the criterion, click Add a level and repeat steps 8–9.
13. To add another criterion:
    • To add a blank criterion, in the bottom-left corner, click Add a criterion and repeat steps 6–11.
    • To copy a criterion, in the bottom-right corner, click Duplicate criterion and repeat steps 6–11.
14. To rearrange criteria, in a criterion’s box, click More select Move criterion up or Move criterion down.
15. To save your rubric, in the bottom-right corner, click Save.

→ More information on Rubrics.

You and your students can check work for unoriginal content with Originality reports. This tool uses Google Search to compare students' Google Docs against billions of webpages and millions of books. Originality reports then displays links to the detected webpages and flags uncited text.

The reports can:

• Help students identify unintentional plagiarism and uncited content before submitting assignments.
• Help instructors see where students used source material and if they properly documented their sources.

When you turn on Originality reports for an assignment, students can run 3 reports per assignment before submitting their work. You can’t see the reports students run. After students run their last report, they can continue to improve their work before submitting the assignment.

After the student turns in their work, Google Assignments automatically runs an originality report for each submitted Docs file, visible only to you. If a student unsubmits and resubmits an assignment, Assignments runs another originality report.

Originality reports are viewable for 45 days. After that, you can run another report by opening the student's submission from within the Assignments grading tool.

To learn how an originality report analyzes work, go to How an originality report is created.

Note: The Originality report is available only for Google Docs in English. If a student uploads a Microsoft Word file, Google Assignments and automatically convert it to a Google Doc and a copy of the original Word file is included in the submission.

Turn on Originality reports within Canvas

1. Go to your Canvas course.
2. Create/edit an assignment in Canvas → click Open in Assignments.
3. Next to Originality reports, check the box.

Open an Originality report

1. Click the course.
2. Click the assignment → Open in Assignments → the student's document.
3. The file opens in the grading tool.
4. To view the report, under Files, click # of flagged passages.

When you create an assignment, you can attach files such as Google Docs, PDFs, or other materials for students to work on.

For example, you might include:

• A Docs essay assignment
• A PDF worksheet
• A reference image

After you publish the assignment, students work on the files and can add their own materials. When students turn in their work, you can review and grade their work and files.

As you exchange files with students, Google Assignments automatically transfers ownership and updates file permissions to View only or Edit access. When you receive student work, edit access transfers to you. When you return the work, edit access transfers to the student.

Workflow in Action

1. Action: Instructor creates assignment, attaches files, and publishes assignment.
   • Result: Copies of attached files are made for each student. File ownership transfers to the student. Instructors can't view or edit the files.
2. Action: Student attaches materials or edits files and turns in their work.
   • Result: File ownership temporarily transfers to the instructor. Student can’t edit or view their files.
3. Action: Instructor grades and returns the student's assignment.
   • Result: File ownership transfers back to the student, and the student's editing rights are restored.
4. Action: Student sees their grades and feedback.
   • Optional: Student can edit and resubmit assignment.

→ More information on sharing files in Google Assignments