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5 ways technology can help you during a Disruptive Event
5 ways technology can help you during a Disruptive Event
4. AssessmeNt
4. AssessmeNt
Assessment is an integral component in preserving the regular pattern of instruction and your students' learning experience. Though you or your students may not be physically in class, it is important to ensure that students are completing assignments and achieving learning outcomes. This includes collecting and returning assignments, as well as providing feedback and grades.
The best tool for most people is Canvas Assignments
The best tool for most people is Canvas Assignments
Why do we recommend Canvas Assignments and Quizzes?
Why do we recommend Canvas Assignments and Quizzes?
We recommend Assignments because every Canvas course includes the ability to create and review Assignments and Quizzes. You and your students already have access to a Canvas course that includes both. In Canvas, you can administer Assignments, Quizzes, graded Discussions, graded and ungraded Surveys. This is the most efficient, effective, and secure way for delivering and collecting assessments and providing feedback.
Stand out features:
Various types of assessed assignments and quizzes
Collect (individual or group) assignments from students in a secure environment
Grade and provide feedback
Record students' scores online, track student progress, and calculate grades
Create quizzes and tests that can be graded either manually or automatically
Specify a timeframe during which assignments and quizzes will be available
Participants are drawn from your class roster
Question: How do I start using Assignments and Quizzes?
To use Assignments and Quizzes in Canvas, you must enable Assignments and Quizzes in your Canvas course navigation and publish your Canvas course. These two steps make your course visible to your students, and make both visible in your course navigation.
Once Assignments and Quizzes are enabled in your course navigation, your students can access both from the menu to submit their assignments, homework, quizzes, exams, etc. As an instructor, you create an Assignment or a Quiz that students will submit. You can specify settings for your Assignments and Quizzes, including setting a due date or creating a group assignment.
Question: What instructions can I provide to my students?
If your students are not accustomed to using Canvas for your course, communicate to direct them to Canvas. While they can access your Canvas course as soon as it is published, they may not know they are expected to use it.
It is always a good idea to provide details about the assignment in your assignment description: articulate the purpose of the assignment, clarify your evaluation criteria for the assignment and provide clear instructions on the logistics or “business aspects” of the assignment.
Here are some resources that you can share with your students:
Question: Are Canvas Assignments accessible and secure for instruction?
The Canvas Learning Management System provides a secure platform as it can be accessed only by students and instructors enrolled in the course. Canvas is also built to be Section 508 compliant.
Also Helpful: Tools to Collect assignments
Also Helpful: Tools to Collect assignments
While at the moment there aren't other alternatives that match the convenience of having everything in one secure place (delivering and collecting assessment, setting due dates, providing feedback, track students' progress, record grades, etc.) the following tools are also available to everyone with a NetID, and can be used as a means to handle collection of assignments.*
E-mail is also used to collect assignments. However, email may be highly impractical for large enrollment courses, as well as for distributing large files or a conspicuous number of files.
Box
Box
Box provides you with a place to easily store, access, and collaborate on your files. Students can upload assignments to a folder you have created in Box, or share a specific file with you. Learn more about Box here or visit the Getting Started guide.
G Suite - Google Drive
G Suite - Google Drive
Google Drive is a free, web-based application that allows you to create, share, collaborate, and manage documents, spreadsheets, and more. Visit the Getting Started guide for more information.
DoIT Guides and Knowledge Base Documents
DoIT Guides and Knowledge Base Documents
*Please keep in mind that student assignments to which you have added a grade or feedback should not be shared back to all students. If you are collecting assignments via Box or Google Drive, you need to share feedback files only with individual students, not the entire class.
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