Google Assignments in Canvas

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Google Assignments in Canvas

Easily distribute, analyze, and grade student work with Google Assignments for Canvas

Google Assignments is an application for Canvas. It helps educators save time grading and guides students to turn in their best work — all through the collaborative power of Google Workspace for Education and Canvas

Instructors can select Google Assignments as an external tool when they create a new assignment, which enables instructors to:
- Grade in Google’s grading interface or in SpeedGrader
- File attachments to an assignment so each student gets their own copy to edit and submit
- Detect missed citation checks and possible plagiarism with the originality reports feature
Students can submit Drive files to Canvas assignments, which instructors can grade in SpeedGrader
Embed Drive files with the Canvas rich text editor
Add Drive files to Canvas Modules

Quick Start: How to use Google Assignments within Canvas

Assignments is an application for Canvas that gives educators a faster, simpler way to distribute, analyze, and grade student work – all through the collaborative power of G Suite and Canvas.

Quick Start: How to grade with Google Assignments

This tutorial will help educators learn how to grade using the time-saving features within Assignments. Learn how to use suggestion mode, add comment, comment bank, originality reports, and rubrics. Grades sync automatically into your Canvas gradebook to help save you time.

How is Assignments different than Google Apps LTI?

Assignments includes all the current functionality of Google Apps LTI, plus a ton of other great features. Google Assignments & Google Apps LTI can coexist in Canvas.

A deeper dive into Google Assignments

Creating Google Assignments that leverage Canvas Speedgrader

Time Stamps

Through 4:35 setting up a Google Assignment
4:40 Student perspective
6:20 Teacher grading perspective

Google Assignments that Leverage Canvas Speedgrader.mp4

Create and grade Google Assignments that leverage Google’s feedback suite

Time Stamps

1:17-5:35 Set up a Google Assignment to grade in Google

5:55-7:38 Student perspective

7:40 Teacher grading perspective

Create and Grade Google Assignments that leverage Googles Feedback Suite.mp4

Which assignment should I create?

As shown by the videos above, teachers will now have the option to use the Canvas SpeedGrader for submitted Google Assignments. Take a look at the chart to see the potential features of each option to help you decide which is best for you and your students.

Additional Resources

New! Meet Google Assignments LTI - Resources from Canvas
Google Workspace for Education Overview > Assignments - Resources from Google
PPS Pilot Teachers "Google Assignment" Feedback

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