How to Grade and Provide Feedback on Student Assignments in Canvas (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Hi, in this video, we'll talk about how to grade work once students hand in their work on Canvas. So, as long as you give students the option to hand in their work on Canvas, you will see work coming in. This will come up on the right side of your homepage. So, this to-do list will have all the grading that you are required to do. So, right now it says that I have one student who has handed in assignment 2. If I had 10 students who had handed in that assignment, that number would be 10. If I had other assignments, the list would be longer. So, I'd go ahead and go into the assignment that I want to grade. Now, if it was multiple students who had done the assignment, I would click here to see the whole list of students who had finished the assignment, or I could click the right button right here to progress from one student to the next or back to the other student. So, as you can see, I already started to annotate the student's work. This work, this thing in purple, I had written earlier. This highlight, I had added earlier. So, I can go ahead and do other things. I can handwrite stuff if you want. For a math teacher, that's kind of helpful. I can type things, which you can see here. I can zoom in and make it bigger, or I can zoom out and make it smaller. Sometimes students hand in work upside down or sideways. This is super helpful when that's the case. And once I've finished annotating the student work, I can go ahead and give it a score. Now, as you can see, the grading period is closed for this student. That just means that I am in a fake course that doesn't really have a start or end date, so I can't actually grade this. But if I could, I would press one. That would show up here. I can leave a comment. Good job. And then I'm going to show you what that looks like from the student perspective. Unfortunately, you won't be able to see the grade book because, again, the grading period does not exist. But I do want you to see what the student does see on their end, which is not a lot because there is no grade. But let's take a look anyway. All right. So to get out of this assignment, we can go ahead and go there. Now we see the assignment, the original assignment, and we can go all the way down to settings and look at our student view. And as you can see here, it looks like the student was alerted that something was graded, which is good news for all our students. So as you can see here, you don't see a numerical grade because I wasn't able to grade that. But you do see something here, and look, it's the comment. Now if the student wanted to see more than just the good job comment and wanted to see all the feedback, you want to encourage them to click on the assignment and view feedback. And now your student is able to see everything that you left for him or her to see. And so now that gives you an idea of the communication that can happen back and forth between you and your student through Canvas.