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OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

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OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. TO LEAD CALIFORNIA ADULT EDUCATION IN THE INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY INTO THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS, ULTIMATELY EMPOWERING LEARNERS TO MEET THEIR ACADEMIC, EMPLOYMENT AND CIVIC GOALS. Face-to-Face and Online Training, News Articles, Teaching with Technology, Annual Technology and Distance Learning Symposium, Teachers' and Administrators Digests, Online Resources for Adult Education. OTAN.US 916-228-2580. OTAN ONLINE. Canvas Gradebook and SpeedGrader. Presenter: Dana Thompson, OTAN Subject Matter Expert. January 16, 2024. Dana Thompson speaks from a video call in the upper right of her shared screen.

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DANA THOMPSON: So welcome. I'm going to go ahead and get started. Feel free to jump in with questions. Put questions in the chat, however you feel comfortable engaging. And we're going to work today in Canvas on Canvas Gradebook and SpeedGrader. And my name is Dana Thompson and I am a long time Canvas user in various roles.

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Text, Canvas Gradebook and SpeedGrader. Dana Thompson, SME, d thompson at S C O E dot net, At techie thompson.

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So I've been a Canvas student and a Canvas teacher, and then I've moved in recently into Canvas admin and instructional design.

So what I'm hoping today is to give you the best practices, tips and tricks with Canvas Gradebook and SpeedGrader specifically. And so there is an opportunity for you to play. So if you would like to have-- if you have the ability to have a second window open, if you want to be able to jump into one of your Canvas courses, preferably one that has students with assignments that have been submitted, but it doesn't have to be. And again, as we're going through feel free to put questions in the chat, feel free to tell me to repeat something if I went too fast or you need to see it again.

This time is for you and want to be able to give you the best practices that I've learned along the years and answer any questions that you may have.

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So oh, well that came out weird. So basically what we're going to cover today what this slide should say is we're going to cover the Canvas Gradebook, how you can filter, how you can set up your viewing options, how you can grade from the Gradebook, access different areas of Canvas from the Gradebook. We'll also be going over SpeedGrader which is one of my favorite tools in Canvas.

And how you can use SpeedGrader to provide feedback to your students, grade within SpeedGrader quickly, and using SpeedGrader to provide specific comments on student submissions which you cannot do in the Gradebook. And then some different viewing options. And then we're also going to get into how students see their grades view as well. So that you can see how what you put in will then factor down to the students.

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Text, Gradebook - 1. Why use the Canvas Gradebook? The Canvas Gradebook helps teachers view and enter grades for their students. Allows teachers to monitor student progress. Provides information to students to help them self-monitor their own progress. Syncs with other parts of Canvas for seamless communication and transparency!

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So why do we use the Canvas Gradebook?

I know that there are a lot of people who like to use a spreadsheet, or they like to just do it hand in a teacher planner, or maybe you have connection to an SIS system that has a Gradebook on the SIS side that generates your report card comments or whatever the case may be. One of the reasons why I love to use the Canvas Gradebook is the functionality within Canvas, and the transparency that it provides. So it helps you as a teacher view and enter grades right inside Canvas but that also syncs to different parts.

So depending on how you set it up, your assignment, your quiz, your discussion, the Gradebook will display as either points or percentage or complete or incomplete or no grade at all, and that communicates to the student. So they see on their end the score within Canvas without having to go to another system to find out what their score is. It also has tools that will help when you put in feedback that will populate the student's screen in Canvas whether it's in their grades tab or on their home page, on their to-do list, those kinds of places.

So it really helps with communication, which you cannot get if you're doing that in the SIS system. So the communication, it will show them if they're late or if they still have the ability to turn something in, due dates, all of that can be seen both on the teachers end, and on the students end. So we're going to go over how it helps you enter the grades but it also helps you monitor your student's progress because it's got some color coding tools right in the Gradebook view. And then how it can provide that information to students to help them self monitor their own progress.

And so we're going to take a look at a lot of these use case scenarios as we go through today.

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A picture on the slide shows an open Gradebook page with a table. The selection, Create and Manage Filter Presets, is selected.

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So things to note, when you create a graded assignment in Canvas, so if you were in the webinar last week or if you've used Canvas assignments, you can make a non-graded assignment, which would be like a practice assignment. That will not create a column in the Gradebook. That is simply for a student to practice. Same with non-graded quizzes, non-graded discussions, non-graded surveys.

But if something has a grade attached to it, even if it's a complete, incomplete, it will automatically-- when you create that item, that assignment that quiz, or that discussion-- it will automatically create a column in your Gradebook. So you don't have to then go into the Gradebook and create the column to track the progress. Automatically does it for you. And if you create assignment groups, so maybe you have homework, and formative assessment and project-based learning and whatever groups that you have, if you create that assignment group, you can easily filter in the Gradebook so that you only are looking at that group of assignments.

So it can help you see your students progress not only on the whole picture, but also how they're doing on a specific group or a specific assignment pattern. So you can filter your Gradebook to see those different data points. You can export your Gradebook so that you can have it as a CSV file if you'd like to then use it to maybe do a pivot chart or see things in a different way. Or if you have to submit your grades as a CSV file, all you have to do is download it from Canvas and you've got that.

And then you also can within the Canvas Gradebook-- and we're going to go through all of this-- but you can excuse students from assignments so that it doesn't factor for or against them in their overall score. And you have the ability to keep private notes on students. So if you are keeping a private note in the Gradebook and you go home and you don't have your teacher planner with you or you usually keep private notes, you still have that information when you're at home when you log into Canvas.

So really, really great tools that help you when you're evaluating your students and it helps communicate to students' expectations and progress of where they are.

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A photo on the next slide shows a Gradebook page, divided into three circled regions. A color-coded table on the page lists students' names and scores or statuses for four different assignments.

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So we're going to take a look at the Canvas Gradebook but just a few things here on the screenshot. As we get into Gradebook this is a screenshot view of a demi Gradebook. But you can see here that you have the ability to search for students. So if you were specifically-- you're having a conference with a student or you want to see how a specific student is doing, you can filter out all of the other noise around you so that you're only looking at that student.

So you can search for students, you can apply filters, you can search for specific assignments or assignment groups. Here's also where you're going to import-- if you have a spreadsheet of grades, then you can import that in instead of having to go in and manually put it in as well. Or you can export your grade and we're going to look at how we can set up some of the different settings. But you can personalize your Gradebook so that it works for you. It doesn't have to be the Canvas default.

So we're going to learn how to manipulate that view and how to view your students individually not only in the spreadsheet type format, but in a learning mastery if they're going towards goals. And also you can see how they see only their scores in a list. So we're going to look at these different things. You'll notice here in this screenshot that there are different colors, and we're going to look at how we can change these colors if you have a different color preference, but each color represents something different. So a blue represent that they turned it in but they turned it in late, but they did turn it in, or it's excused if it's yellow.

And you could also see that there's little icons here which indicate that a student has submit something but you have not graded it yet. So all of these little things that help communicate to you and to your students so you will get fewer emails saying, I turned this in, have you graded it yet? Because all they have to do is go into their grade view and they can see that you haven't graded it yet, or that you have and here's your feedback. So it keeps everything nice and concise and together.

And then I'm going to show you a few tools that you can use to help streamline your workflow as you're working with students.

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On the next slide, a screenshot shows a dropdown menu under an assignment name on a Gradebook table. The third option, Message Students Who is selected on the dropdown.

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So my favorite is this Message Students Who, and we're going to practice this. But you can see here, here's the name of the assignment, Articles of Confederation, and every assignment will have these three dots. When you hover over the assignment name you'll see these three dots pop up which always means there's more.

So when you click on the three dots you have all of these other things that you can do with that assignment, and one of them is Message Students Who. And I use this all the time if I have an assignment and maybe it was due today and I still have out of my 30 students, I still have five students who haven't turned it in. Instead of looking at my Gradebook and saying, OK, so-and-so I'm going to email them, so-and-so, you have to go and pick and choose.

If you come up to the three dots and you choose Message Students Who, you can message only those five students that haven't submitted anything, or you could message only the 25 students who have saying that thank you for turning this in, I'm going to grade it over the weekend, you'll have your scores by Monday. Imagine how many emails that will stop in your email box when students are asking questions. When are you going to grade this? When can I see my score? So there's some really great tools in here because everything is all tied together. So we're going to take a look at a few of those.

So I'm going to do a demo right now. If you have the ability to have Canvas open, feel free to have it open on another window so that you can go back and forth. If you'd rather just watch, that is fine too and then you can play later. But I'm going to jump over here to a course that I have and this is a demo course. So the students in here are not real, the assignments in here are assignments but not necessarily for this course. But I just wanted to show you a few things.

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On the open Canvas page, sections from left to right consist of a blue vertical menu with Courses selected, a white vertical menu with Home selected, a large body section of Units with their respective assignments, and a right-side section of buttons with a To Do list underneath. One of the To Do list items reads, Grade Notice and Wonder - For Richarad (do this instead of the other). 50 points, Jan 15 at 11:59pm. Below the To Do list, a section titled Coming Up lists assignments.

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So as a teacher you can see over here that I have a to-do list. And this to do list has been populated with assignments that students have submitted, and now I need to go in and provide a grade and feedback to them. So really nice feature when you're using Canvas to create your assignments, your discussions, your quizzes, is that it keeps everything in Canvas and so I can just jump right to there. I also have an area down here coming up and this reminds me of the different assignments that I have coming up due that my students will start to turn in.

Your students will also have this kind of area.

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Dana clicks the Student View button in the upper right of the page. In student view, the To Do list displays assignments, points, and due dates,

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I'm going to come up here and view from the Student View, and this is my test student. So I can see here as a test student I have all of these items that I have not done yet, that I need to do and it provides me with the due date. So these were due yesterday. I'm already late. So as a student I can come in and prioritize my workflow today based on what I have due, and what's coming up that's due today or even maybe next week.

But this student has not done anything yet once as a student. So if I come in here and I go directly to this assignment, and I start my assignment, and I'm going to come down here and I'm just going to submit something so that you can see what happens. I'm going to upload this file right here, and I'm going to submit my assignment. So this student-- test student is the student's name-- has now turned in this assignment. It shows me it's submitted. And then later as a student I can come back to this assignment and I can see submission details.

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Dana clicks the first assignment under To Do, opening the assignment page with a heading that reads, Balanced Reactions Assignment - Example of Differentiation. The body of the page lists instructions and links. Dana clicks the Start Assignment button in the upper right of the page, next to the heading. She scrolls past text and embedded videos to click Upload File near the bottom of the page. She clicks Choose File, then selects a file to upload from a popup. She clicks the blue Submit Assignment button under her choses file on the page. Back on the assignment page, a section on the right reads, Submitted! Jan 16 at 12:16pm (late). Submission Details. Dowload Hackathon 2024 set up.pdf. You may not see all comments right now because the assignment is currently being graded. The Start Assignment button near the top of the page now reads, New Attempt, instead.

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When I click on that I can see any feedback my teacher has given me. If it's been graded with a rubric I can see how I scored on the rubric. And all of this is done without having to do it multiple times. You open the assignment, you grade it, all of that is automatically fed back to the student. You don't have to go in and then do that somewhere else. But now that I've submitted that, when I as a student come back to my Home page, you'll see down here that once my teacher grades it I'll have another item down here that says feedback. And that assignment will show up here with my grade and then any feedback that the teacher would have left.

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Dana navigates back to the Home page using the white vertical menu. She scrolls to the bottom of the To Do list and mouses over the blank space underneath.

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So it helps your students monitor themselves as well. I'm going to leave Student View. So that's one area where the Gradebook is tied to a different view, our Home view. But I'm going to come in here to my Grades as a teacher so that you can see here's my Gradebook. OK, so these icons indicate that these items have been submitted but I have not graded them yet.

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Back in teacher view, Dana clicks Grades in the white vertical menu. A table shows student names and 5 assignments. Checkmarks fill one of the assignment columns,

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This column, this was a column where the students did something and I graded them all. So this was either complete or incomplete. And so they have all completed it except for test students. So you can see here that test student hasn't completed it yet. It's missing.

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Dana scrolls further down the table, revealing a blank pinkish cell beneath the checkmarks, in the row for the name, Test Student, indicating that the student has not completed the assignment.

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And so these pink areas mean that the student is late. They have not submitted anything by the due date that was put on that assignment.

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Dana mouses over large swaths of pink cells in the table.

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And then we have a green and we have a blue. So if you're not sure what these different color codes mean, you can find that out by coming up to your Gradebook settings. So anytime you see this gear, these are your settings. So when I click on that and I look at my view options, you can see here my status color.

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Dana scrolls up the page and clicks gear icon in the upper right. It opens a Gradebook Settings pop-out with three upper tabs. Dana clicks the last tab, View Options. She scrolls down to a list called Status Color, which lists the meaning of each color in the grade book.

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So blue means that they turned it in but they turned it in after the due date. Red means that they haven't turned it in yet. So not only is it late, it's missing.

It will not turn red until that due date has passed. So if I look at here and I scroll over a little bit more you can see actually all of these were due by today. So they all show late as of now because it was due today and they haven't turned it in yet. But if it was due tomorrow these red areas would be white because it's an assignment that they should turn in and it's not late yet. Now this green one, this is an interesting one. This means that the student turned it in, as the teacher graded it and returned it to the student, and they've resubmitted it.

So if we take a look at my Gradebook here you can see that there's Richard Williams, has turned in, has an icon that shows that I haven't graded it yet. But in fact I have and the student resubmitted it a different version.

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Dana mouses over a green cell in the table for the student name, Richard Williams.

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So that tells me that they've done what I asked them to do and they resubmitted it and now I need to go and grade it. OK, but they did turn it in originally, now it's just resubmitted. So all of these colors are so to me dropped, looks really close to missing. So for me I might want to go in here and change this dropped color so that it makes more sense to me and maybe choose this purple.

And I'm going to click on Apply because I can differentiate that red from purple much better than the red from orange.

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The dropped status in the list is colored orange. Dana clicks a pencil icon on the Dropped list item and selects a different color, then clicks, Apply. The dropped list item is now purple.

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You might see the colors differently but these colors are for you only. Your students do not see these colors. Your students actually see a label. So if they're missing an assignment, when they look at their grades-- so I'm going to come, let me cancel out of here. And I'm going to come back over to my Home screen and I'm going to act as a student again so that you can see the grades that the student sees.

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Dana hits Cancel at the bottom of the settings poppet, clicks a triple-line icon in the upper left of the page to open the white vertical menu, then navigates to Home. She clicks Student View in the upper right of the home page.

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So you can see that this one was late, that's the one I just turned in this morning.

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With Grades selected in the white vertical menu, Dana mouses over a table of assignments. The table lists the name, due date, status, and score for each assignment. Labels under status for different assignments include late and missing. Statuses for some assignments are left blank.

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These are all missing. This one's not missing yet because it's due today but by 11:59. So it doesn't have a tag on it but I can as a student now come in and see all of the things that I have to do today, so that I don't get a bad grade in this class without having to email my teacher, what's due? What do I have to turn in? It's all right here automatically by your Gradebook. So really helps with that communication.

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Dana exits Student View.

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But again, those colors are not what the student sees. Those colors are just for instructors. And you can modify so that they are colors that make sense to you.

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She opens the settings pop-out and view options again.

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You can also see here under Gradebook Settings that you have the ability to show this Notes column which I love. So I'm going to go ahead and check that.

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Above the color status list, a section called, Show, has checkboxes next to different options. Dana checks the box next to, Notes.

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I don't like looking at unpublished assignments in my Gradebook. It clutters my Gradebook because if it's unpublished, the students don't see it, so why do I need to see that in my Gradebook? If I want to, I can come in and check that again but for right now I'm going to uncheck it so it doesn't clutter my Gradebook. I'm only looking at assignments that the students have to turn in.

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She unchecks the box next to, Unpublished Assignments.

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You can split student names into first and last. This is a new feature, I've not bothered with it. But if you like to see your student names in columns you can split those. You can hide the assignment group totals. So if I click this and I apply these settings, you'll see my Notes column appeared right here. You'll also see when I scroll over that I only see my Total.

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Dana checks the box next to, Hide Assignment Group Totals, then clicks the blue Apply Settings button in the bottom right of the pop-out. The grade book table now has a notes column. Dana scrolls to the right side of the grade book. The last column is titled, Total.

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And I don't know if you remember before, I had assignment groups, I had homework, quizzes, and project-based or something like that. So I'm going to go back into my settings and show my assignment group totals because sometimes you want your students to know how they're doing in the different.

So I have two groups. I have a Homework and I have in-class Assignments, and these two groups add up to my total.

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Dana goes back into settings and unchecks the Hide Assignment Group Totals box, then clicks Apply Settings. Now, three columns at the end of the grade book table are titled, Homework, Assignments, and Total.

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So you can choose to show that or not on your screen. So again that doesn't confuse the student screen. This is just for your view. Oh no, Haven you're fine. I didn't hear anything. So that is a really nice feature that you know that you're modifying this to meet your needs. It's not going to impact the student's view at all. The other thing that I really like to do to customize my view is I like to see the total next to the student name.

So I'm just going to click, drag and drop, come back here and notice that I can move this total so that it's next to my notes.

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Dana clicks and drags the Total column leftward, placing it next to the notes column at the left side of the table.

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That way I see the student, I see any notes that I've made on them, and I see their total without having to scroll, because when you're at the end of a semester and you've got 50 assignments in here, that's a lot of scrolling. So I like to move my total to the beginning. You can also do that with individual assignments. Again, it doesn't impact the student's view, they will see everything in assignment, due date order.

But maybe you would like to see them in a different order when you're going through these. So you do have the ability to move those columns. So I keep talking about this Notes column. This is great because I might say, James has a 504 of extra time on tasks. OK.

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Dana clicks a notes cell on the table, in the row for the student name, James Anderson. A text box appears over the cell, and Dana enters notes. Buttons at the bottom right of the box say Save and Cancel.

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And whether you want to keep these notes here, this is only for-- the only people who can see these notes are people in your course who have a teacher access. No students will see the notes even on themselves, so James will not see this note that I wrote on his Gradebook. And if there are observers they won't see him either. It's only people with the teacher view.

If I have a co-teacher, we're both teachers in this course then we both will see these Notes columns. So I can come down here and with say Robert, he hasn't turned anything in yet, but I'm going to say he was a late registration so extend one week. So I want to remember that when Robert is turning things in, they're going to be a week late because he was a late register. But I also don't want him to see these missing things. I can come over here to this assignment, my Notice and Wonder on Robert's submission right here, and I can either mark it as complete or incomplete, because that's how the assignment is set up. It's either done or not done. I can make it so that it's ungraded or I can excuse him.

So

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After adding notes for Robert Garcia, Dana clicks a cell for a missing assignment of Robert's. She clicks a downward arrow on the cell that opens a dropdown. The dropdown lists a checkmark, an X, the word Ungraded and the word Excused.

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say for this one it was an in-class assignment that we did as a group and he wasn't here. So I'm going to excuse him from that. I can also just type in ex and it will automatically put that in here.

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Dana clicks Excused. The Excused status is now listed in the cell for the assignment, in the row for Robert's name.

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This one is an assignment that I want him to do-- notice this now says excused-- I want him to do this assignment but I don't want him to think that he's late. So I'm going to come over here to this flyout, then I click on this little side arrow.

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Dana clicks the cell for another assignment of Robert's. She clicks a rightward arrow on the right side of the cell, which opens a pop-out menu. A list of Statuses on the menu reads, None, Late, Missing, and Excused. A comments box sits below the list.

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I'm going to say the status right now is None. So it's not going to show on his end either with that missing tag.

And then I'm going to come down here and put a comment, please turn in by January 22. So now he doesn't have to email me, when do I have to turn this in? It's notated on his Grades tab. And so I'm going to click on Submit, and when I come back out to my Gradebook, notice that his is not red anymore.

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After changing the status on the assignment cell to none, the cell is now white instead of pink in the grade book.

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So that means that he is not going to see that missing tag and get freaked out. So I'm going to show you-- you may not have the ability to do this, but I want you to see what Robert sees. So I'm going to act as Robert because this is a demo class and I have the ability to act as students. Most teachers don't but I just want to show you what he sees.

So

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Dana clicks Robert's name in the grade book, which opens a right-side pop-out. She clicks a button at the top that reads, Act as User. She scrolls through an Act as User info page and clicks Proceed at the bottom. As Robert, the Home page is selected.

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here I am as Robert, notice that I have a notification here that says two. That means two things have been done in my grades by my teacher.

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Dana mouses over a red notification circle that reads, 2, next to the Grades menu item in the white vertical menu.

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Also I have all my to-do list but if I come down here, here's my recent feedback. And I can see without even going anywhere else, all I've done is logged into this course, that I have until January 22 to turn in this assignment.

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Dana scrolls past the To Do list on the right side. A section underneath is titled Recent Feedback. It reads, Balanced Reactions Assignment. Example of Differentiation. "Please turn in by Jan 22." File Annotation Example, Complete.

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So now I don't have to go find that assignment, go into my Gradebook, ask the teacher, it's right there right when I log in. And it also shows that I have been given a score for this annotation assignment.

So I can go directly to these different assignments as Robert, or I can come up here and go to my Grades to see what the two things that were graded.

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Dana clicks Grades in the white vertical menu. Dana mouses over Balanced Reactions, the first assignment in the table. The score is listed as a dash out of 50.

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And you can see here I have this balanced example. It's given me an excused score, so it's not a 0. And when I click on these bubbles here, actually not excused, it's made it so it doesn't have that missing tag. This one is missing, this one is not. And my teacher's comments, so please turn in by January 22.

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Dana clicks on a blue notification bubble over a speech bubble icon, at the end of the row for the first assignment. This opens a right-side pop-out that reads, Feedback, Attempt 1 Feedback, Please turn in by Jan 22. She mouses over Introduce Yourself, the third assignment in the table, which has a red missing tag in the status column.

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So already my anxiety has gone down because I know I have a week.

And then this one is blue which means that it's a new item and my teacher has given me 5 points. So it's complete.

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Dana mouses over a blue notification bubble in the score column for the second assignment in the table. The score column displays a checkmark under the notification bubble. She clicks on the checkmark, causing it to become the number 5.

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And I can come here if there's a rubric or anything else that is associated with assignment, as the student can come in here and take a look at that.

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Dana mouses over exclamation mark and checkbox icons next to the score on the assignment.

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So I've given you a lot of overview, I'm still not done, but are there any questions real quick? I want to pause to see if there's anything that I need to answer or show again.

SPEAKER 2: Can you show where you got the notes? Where you created that Notes tab.

DANA THOMPSON: Yes. So here I am in the teacher's view.

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In teacher's view of the grade book, Dana hovers over the notes column, next to the column of student names in the table.

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SPEAKER 2: OK.

DANA THOMPSON: And I have it here because I've made it so that it will stick there, but all of these view options are in this gear right here. So when I click on the gear, under my View Options, I'm going to make sure there's a check in the Notes column.

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Dana clicks the gear icon in the upper right, navigates to the View Options tab, and gestures over the checked box next to the option, Notes, under the heading, Show. The participant, Donna Pfeiler, appears in the video call tile in the upper right when she speaks.

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SPEAKER 2: OK.

DANA THOMPSON: That way it show these notes here.

SPEAKER 2: And it'll always put it next to the student name to the left?

DANA THOMPSON: Yeah.

SPEAKER 2: OK. I really like your idea about the grades being next the way you have it. I always have it at the end and I never even thought about-- I'm always like scrolling every time. The other thing I wanted to ask you, I do a non-credit class so they just get pass, satisfactory, pass, no pass. And a lot of students don't do their assignments but on the Gradebook it'll put it on there, and so I don't know how to label it. I guess what I'm trying to say is, they get this they only did 5 out of 10 assignments for example, and so really they should get 50% right?

But then it says, oh, no they got 90% because they did really great on those five. So I'm always like how can I get the Gradebook to help me so I'm not doing the math and counting how many they missed. Is there a way to do that?

DANA THOMPSON: There's a couple of ways and you're jumping ahead but it's a great segue. So under these Gradebook Settings which again, I'll come back out here, the gear right here. So when I click on the gear and I look at my Late Policies.

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Dana opens the settings pop-out again by clicking the gear icon. The tab, Late Policies is selected by default. The Late Policies tab has percentage fields for, grade for missing submissions, late submission deduction, deduction interval, and lowest possible grade. It has check boxes next to, Automatically apply grade for missing submissions, and, Automatically apply deduction for late submissions.

(SPEECH)
So I highly recommend that every assignment you do even if it's the last day of class has a due date because that helps generate these notifications and these to-do lists and all of these things for the kids. If you don't put a due date on an assignment, a discussion, or a quiz, it gives them until the very last day of the class but it also doesn't give them any kind of visual feedback.

So if I say this is due here but you have until the end of the semester, at least it's on to-do list. If don't put a due date on it, it won't even go on to-do list. When you have due dates you can come into your Gradebook Settings and you can set up what's called a late policy. And what you want to do is automatically apply a grade for missing submission. So something is due today and I haven't turned it in, now it's past midnight because that was my due date 11:59 PM. You can make your times any time you want. So now it's tomorrow and now it's going to automatically show in my grade as a 0.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana checks the box to automatically apply the grade for missing submissions. The grade for missing submission field reads, 0%.

(SPEECH)
Or maybe I know there are some schools that have a policy that missing assignments show as 50%. Whatever your school policy is. But it's going to automatically if they don't get that due date, it's going to make it a 0 in their Gradebook. So that will-- because otherwise if there's no grade in the Gradebook, the Canvas Gradebook doesn't count it for or against. It just doesn't include it. So that's what's happening with yours. You've got 10 assignments, they've done five of them really well, they're only being assessed on those five assignments rather than missing the others. So you want to give it an automatic 0.

Now, the other great thing is you can automatically have Canvas apply a deduction. So if you say this is due on this date but you have two weeks to turn it in, but each week you don't turn it in you're going to lose 10%. So what I'm going to do is automatically apply a deduction of 10% on each. You can do day or hour. I wish they would put weeks in here because I know there's a lot of programs where you get all of your assignments at the beginning of the week and you have until Friday to turn them in. And if you don't, then but you can do it that way.

So they get a 10% deduction for every day that they don't turn it in. So in this place I might do a 1%, so a 1% deduction. And the lowest possible grade they can get if they turn it in is a 60%. So even if they did amazing but they turned it in so late that it deducted 40 points basically if you look at the percentage, the highest grade they can get is a 60. But if they don't turn it in they're going to get a 0 and then you can apply those settings.

SPEAKER 2: Yes. OK, good because I'm always like-- I was like well--

DANA THOMPSON: So even if you don't do this one, if you just do this top one it will just automatically give everybody who is missing assignment a 0 at that due date. Now there are some times where you have a due date-- and so let's take and this is another great segue into one of mine-- this Notice and Wonder was due yesterday, I don't necessarily want to give them all an automatic 0. I want to go and sometimes for me at least I'm a control freak. I want to see who hasn't turned things in instead of just having Canvas do it and then forget to check and then I can't monitor my student's progress.

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Dana closes the settings pop-out on the grade book page.

(SPEECH)
Totally how you work versus how I work.

But what I can do, I can come in here and say, OK this Notice and Wonder James has completed it, I want to give him-- before I give everybody else a 0, I must go in and grade the ones that were done. So I'm going to come in and click on James, now I can use the flyout to actually go into SpeedGrader which we're going to do later.

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In the grade book, the row for student James Anderson displays a document and clock icon under the assignment, Notice and Wonder. Dana clicks on the cell for James' assignment, then opens the fly-out by clicking the rightward arrow on the right side of the cell. In the fly-out, she mouses over a button that reads SpeedGrader. Below, a dropdown under Grade has, Ungraded, selected. A list of statuses below reads None, Late, Missing, and Excused, with None selected. A comments box sits below.

(SPEECH)
But say this is just something that if he turned it in he's going to get credit. So I'm going to come here and I'm going to give James credit, and I've excused Robert, and I'm going to give Elizabeth credit. And I'm going to scroll down here, no one else has turned it in.

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Dana closes the fly-out, then clicks the cell for James' assignment, then a downward arrow in the cell, which opens a dropdown with a checkmark, an X, the word Ungraded, and the word Excused. She clicks the checkmark, giving James credit. She repeats with the same assignment for the student, Elizabeth Gonzalez, giving her credit. Aside from Robert, who shows a yellow excused cell under the assignment, the other students besides James and Elizabeth show blank pinkish red cells.

(SPEECH)
So what I want to do-- and this is where I hover and I see these three dots-- I'm going to click on these three dots and I'm going to message all the other students. So when I click in Message Students Who notice there's only 12 out of my 15 students because those 12 have not submitted yet.

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In the assignment name column, Dana clicks an icon of three dots, then clicks, Message Students Who, from a dropdown. A message composition window opens. An option reads, For students who. A dropdown below has, Have not yet submitted, selected. An option reads, Send Message To, with a box next to, 12 students, selected. Dana clicks the dropdown. The selections say, Have not yet submitted, Have not been graded, Marked incomplete, and Reassigned.

(SPEECH)
I can also email anybody who has not been graded but I've just graded everybody so that doesn't make sense in this case, or anybody that I marked as incomplete, which is a 0, or anybody that I've reassigned. So basically it's doing a blind carbon copy email to these people. So I'm going to email anybody who has not submitted yet.

I can change the subject and then I can come in here, remember this is due today, turn it in by midnight for full credit.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana leaves the Have not yet submitted option selected. She highlights the editable subject line, which reads, No submission for Notice and Wonder - Student Choice Example. She composes her message in the Message field below.

(SPEECH)
So I'm not going to give them an automatic 0 yet because I want to give them all of today to turn it in. And I'm going to send this email to all of these students, but they're not going to know who else is on this email, they're only going to see their own.

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Dana clicks Send in the lower right, closing the composition window. A notification appears over the grade book page that says, Message sent successfully.

(SPEECH)
And so when I click on Send that is now sent and then tomorrow I can come in and if they still haven't turned it in, then I'm going to come in here and I'm going to set that default grade manually instead of having Canvas do it automatically.

(DESCRIPTION)
Again, Dana clicks the three-dot icon on the assignment name. She selects, Set default grade, from the dropdown, which opens a small popup.

(SPEECH)
And I'm going to put anybody who has not turned it in yet as an incomplete. I am not going to overwrite already entered grades because the three students who did turn it in or were excused, I don't want to change their grades. So I'm going to leave them alone by not checking this box. Everybody else is going to get an incomplete with two clicks.

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The popup reads, Give all students the same grade for Notice and Wonder - Student Choice Example by entering and submitting a grade value below. A dropdown below lists the options, complete and incomplete. Dana selects Incomplete. A checkbox below reads, Overwrite already-entered grades. She leaves it unchecked. She clicks, Set Default Grade at the bottom right of the popup.

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SPEAKER 2: So is an incomplete like a 0? How does that work with the grading?

DANA THOMPSON: So I'm going to come into this assignment right here. So this is an assignment, What do you notice? What do you wonder? And this is assigned to everybody, and it has a due date and it's 50 points.

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Dana clicks the name of the assignment in the table, opening the assignment page. She scrolls past assignment instructions to an info table, with a rubric below it.

(SPEECH)
So when I come in and edit the assignment details, you have the option when you create the assignment to display the grade as.

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Dana scroll up the page and clicks an Edit button with a pencil icon in the upper right. A details tab is selected. Dana scroll past fields for assignment name and the assignment body with text and images. Below, fields are titled, Points, Assignment Group, and Display Grade as. The dropdown next to the Display Grade as has Complete slash Incomplete selected.

(SPEECH)
So I've chosen the complere/Incomplete. You're either going to get credit or you're not going to get credit. But if it's an assignment where you want to be able to grade them on their progress, that's where you would choose either points, letter grade, percentage, and then it will show default.

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Dana opens the Display Grade as dropdown. Options say, Percentage, Complete/Incomplete, Points, Letter Grade, GPA Scale and Not Graded.

(SPEECH)
So if I did this as points-- I'm going to go ahead and save this and then show you how it changes in the Gradebook.

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Dana selects points from the dropdown, scroll down the assignment editing page, and clicks Save in the bottom right.

(SPEECH)
So again, how you set up your assignments, your quizzes, your discussions, that controls your Gradebook. So you don't have to do it in both places. You do it once and it applies. So as a teacher I'm going to come back to my grades, and here's that same assignment but now you can see that if they did it they got 50 points or excused. If they didn't do it they got 0.

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Dana goes back to the Grades, using the white vertical menu. Now, 0s are listed in the column for the assignment for most of the students, with James and Elizabeth's rows displaying 50s, and Robert's row displaying a yellow box that reads, Excused.

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SPEAKER 2: OK.

DANA THOMPSON: So it's how you set up that Gradebook or that assignment will determine how it is displayed in the Gradebook.

SPEAKER 2: I just do points and you get a 0 or nothing or you get half of the score.

DANA THOMPSON: And that's really nice to do the complete/incomplete because then they just see a check mark or an x. But if you're going to do something where you want them to know that they got 45 out of 50, so say Susan came in and she turned hers in and she gets 45 out of 50. And what happens when you come over here to this side, nope because I moved it. Over here you can see that Susan has 90% even though she hasn't turned in half her assignments, because everything else that doesn't have a grade at all doesn't factor in the total.

(DESCRIPTION)
For student, Susan Brown, Dana enters the point score, 45, for the assignment. In the Total column near the left of the grade book table, Susan has a 90%.

(SPEECH)
So it's only going to look at those things that have been graded.

So if you want something to be graded and they didn't turn it in, that's where it's really nice to come up here to this Set Default Grade, if you don't have it automatically in the settings, you can just populate everybody with the 0 who hasn't turned it in yet.

SPEAKER 2: OK.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the three-dot button on another assignment in the table, Balanced Reactions. She mouses over the option, Set Default Grade, in the dropdown. Dana clicks the gear icon again, and checks the box, Automatically apply grade for missing submissions, in the Late Policies tab.

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DANA THOMPSON: So that's two ways you can do it. Setting the default grade for anybody who hasn't turned it in yet or automatically applying a grade for missing. Now take a look, I'm going to apply these settings right here and anybody in the red that's late now has 0s.

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Dana clicks Apply in the lower right of the settings pop-out. Previously blank pinkish cells in the column for this assignment now display 0s.

(SPEECH)
So these are all 0s now, not the ones that turned it in already. And the reason why this one hasn't turned 0 is because you can see that I set it to manual. This is one that I actually went in and said I manually want to grade this.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana gestures over another assignment in the table. It lists the name, Introduce Yourself Assignment, then the text, Out of 0, Manual. Elizabeth and James have document and clock icons in their cells for the assignments. The rest of the students have blank pink cells.

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SPEAKER 2: OK. Got it.

DANA THOMPSON: So those are two ways that you can control points or no points. And then you saw how I was able to go in and I can come in here say this is Introduce Yourself Assignment, say this is something they got up in front of the class. So I'm going to come into this assignment real quick so I can show you this as well. I'm coming to Edit.

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Dana clicks on the Introduce Yourself assignment, opening the assignment page. She clicks the Edit button in the upper right. She scrolls down to the option, Submission Type, which has a dropdown with, Online, selected.

(SPEECH)
So this one instead of them turning it in online, and this was last week's webinar but just want to show you how it looks in the Gradebook.

So instead of turning something in online, they're going to have either a no submission or on paper, which means that no submission means the student is not turning anything in Canvas. It's a verbal assignment so maybe it's a report that they're giving in front of the class or something like that.

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Selections in the dropdown say, No Submission, Online, On Paper, and Externar Tool. Dana selects No Submission.

(SPEECH)
So I'm going to put it to no submission because that way when my students-- so now I'm going to look at this from the student's view-- when my students come in here they have all of the instructions. They have when it's due by, how many points it's worth, but I don't have that Submit button because I'm not going to submit anything on Canvas.

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Dana saves the changes in the assignment editor, then goes to Student View. Under the assignment name, the Student View page for the assignment reads, Due Jan 15 by 11:59pm. Points 0. Dana scrolls down the page past instructions and guidelines for the assignment, showing that there is no Submit button.

(SPEECH)
I'm going to give my report but all of the data that the teacher is recording, grade, feedback, comments, resubmit this whatever the case may be, the teacher will do in Canvas. So it's communicated out to the student just as if it were an assignment that they did and submitted into Canvas.

So as this teacher on this Introduce Yourself Assignment in my Gradebook, I can now come in and find it. Here it is. And I can come in and now say, OK, James just gave his presentation, it's 0 points so maybe this is an extra credit.

(DESCRIPTION)
In Teacher View, Dana goes back to her grade book. She scrolls rightward to the Introduce Yourself assignment in the table, where 0s are listed for all the students. In the cell for James, she changes the 0 to a 5.

(SPEECH)
It's 0 points but I'm going to give him 5 points of extra credit. Susan, she wasn't as well prepared, she's only going to get 3 points of extra credit. So I'm using my number pad here to give points and hit the Enter to go down to the next one.

So just like you would in your typical SIS or in a spreadsheet, you can use this the same way. So I'm coming in and as they come up and maybe it's an EL class where they have to recite a paragraph that they are speaking to you in English so that you can assess their pronunciation and use of the language, you can come in here and manually put in their score rather than having them submit in Canvas.

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Dana goes down the column, entering grades for each student.

(SPEECH)
So you can do that right here which is really easy.

But now you can see that these are no longer red because it's not missing. And it was due today so it's not late. OK, so let me pause for questions. Great question Michael. Do those messages go to their Canvas inbox or email, or both? And that is something that it's a great question because it goes to their Canvas inbox for sure. And I can come into my teacher inbox, and I can come over here to-- these are my courses-- but I can come over here to submission comments.

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Dana clicks Inbox in the left-most vertical menu, that's currently blue. She clicks a Courses dropdown in the upper left that lists courses, plus the option, All Courses. She clicks the next dropdown to the right of the previous one. It lists the options, Inbox, Unread, Starred, Sent, Archived, and Submission Comments. She clicks Submissions Comments.

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So I can look at my inbox, any unread messages, starred messages, sent messages, archived messages. Notice there's no delete.

So if you want to delete a message you're actually going to archive it because you don't want to get rid of any documentation and this is documentation. This is a legal document, their work. So archive any messages you don't want to see anymore. You could always get to them later. But if you want to see any submission comments that you've put on, you're going to come in here and you can see here that Elizabeth commented on one of her assignments that she finished the assignment, and then it links me directly to her submission.

So don't even have to click back on the Dashboard, and go back into my Course, and into the Assignments list, and into Elizabeth's. It cut out like 10 clicks.

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Two submission comments are displayed to the left, listing the date, student, assignment, and comment. Dana clicks Elizabeth's comment, opening it to the right. It reads, I finished the assignment. Dana mouses over the assignment name above Elizabeth's comment, which changes color, indicating that it is a link.

(SPEECH)
James sent me-- I attached the assignment. So if they are commenting on their assignments to you, you can find all of those comments in one place. Same with them. Now, if they don't check their Canvas inbox except for when they're in class, that does no good. So you really want to encourage your students-- and this again is dependent on how your Canvas has been set up. But if it's connected to an SIS, many times that SIS will populate it with their student email.

And so what the students have to do is come into their account-- and this is something that I do with my students on the first day just to make sure everybody knows how to do this-- and you need to have them set up their notification settings.

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Dana clicks Account, beneath a photo of herself, in the left-most vertical menu. A lefthand poppet lists Account-relevant links. Dana clicks the first link, Notifications.

(SPEECH)
So this is something they can do. And I always tell them that I want them to change, and you can see that I have different emails. They can set up more than one email if they don't check their school email but they will check their personal, they can add that in most systems.

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On the Notification Settings page, a table lists columns for Course Activities, one email address, a different email address, and push notifications. For each course activity, either a green bell, crossed out bell, or crossed out circle are displayed for each email address and push notifications.

(SPEECH)
Some of you may be blocked from that but I will always tell them that if I'm communicating through Canvas, you'll be able to get that communication in Canvas but if you don't check Canvas very often, you need to come into these notification settings and if I have a submission comment from a teacher, notice that I have that set to Notify Immediately, it's green.

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For the course activity, Submission Comments, the first email address displays a green bell. When Dana mouses over the bell, it reads, Notify Immediately. The other email address and push notifications display a crossed out bell for Submission Comments.

(SPEECH)
And it's going to go to my main email. Or maybe they can set it up so it goes to their text.

Grading, I want to know when something's graded immediately or maybe as a daily summary. So at the end of the day I'll get an email that says, all of these assignments have been graded. And so now I to go into Canvas and look if there's any feedback or what my grade might be.

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For the activity, Grading, under the first email address, Dana clicks the crossed out bell. A dropdown opens with the options, Notify Immediately, Daily Summary, Weekly Summary, and Notifications off.

(SPEECH)
If they're invited to a course or an assignment except quizzes submission or resubmission. So they won't see everything that you see but I will have my students go in and turn on the Grading and the Submission Comment one to notify at least immediately if not as a daily email so that they're getting that communication from me.

SPEAKER 3: Thanks. One follow up question. So you have three columns there? So it looks like you have--

DANA THOMPSON: I have a text and I have two different emails because I teach in so many different places.

SPEAKER 3: OK. So I know I can go in and edit student settings or whatever or add a second email?

DANA THOMPSON: Yes. So you can see here I've got--

SPEAKER 3: Two columns and OK.

DANA THOMPSON: And so you can add but you can't do this for students. They would need to do this for themselves.

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Dana clicks Settings in the white vertical menu. A section on the righthand side of the page is headed, Ways to Contact. It lists Dana's two email addresses. She clicks a plus sign button below that reads, Email Address, which opens a popup titled, Register Communication with the tabs, Email, Text (SMS), and Slack Email. The Email tab has an Email Address field and a Register Email button.

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SPEAKER 3: As an admin can I do that or?

DANA THOMPSON: As an admin, yes you can--

SPEAKER 3: That's great. I'll let them do that, that's good too but--

DANA THOMPSON: Yeah, no as an admin I believe-- well as an admin you can associate an email with their account, they have to go in and set up the notification settings. You cannot do that for that's a personal setting.

SPEAKER 3: OK. Thanks.

DANA THOMPSON: Yeah. I think I got questions in the chat. If not let me know. And I'm looking at time and I do want to show you SpeedGrader too. But one of the other things I want you to look at, you can see that there's an eye next to Total.

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Dana goes back to her grade book. She gestures over the Total column, which displays a crossed out eyeball icon next to the percentage for each student.

(SPEECH)
That's because this Notice and Wonder right now is hidden from the students. So if you have-- I use this all the time-- if I have a project that I'm having students present over a week, I don't want my students to see their grades before everybody gets their grade. They're all going to get it at the same time.

So if somebody presented on Monday, they're going to have to wait until Friday when I've graded everybody's work. So I've actually made that so it's hidden from the students until I'm ready for them to see it. And that is your posting. So right now this says Post Grades because it's hidden from the students. If I come over to my-- oh does it look that maybe that they're all hidden.

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Dana clicks the three-dot icon next to the Notice and Wonder assignment name in the table. She mouses over the selection, Post grades, in the dropdown. She scrolls rightward to other assignments.

(SPEECH)
That's also a setting you can put up in your posting policy. So you can automatically post grades so that they're visible to students as soon as you hit Enter on your keyboard, they'll see their grade.

Grades that have already been hidden will remain hidden. So mine have already been hidden.

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Dana clicks the gear icon, then goes to the middle tab on the settings pop-out, Grade Posting Policy. On option on the tab says, Automatically Post Grades. Assignment grades will be visible to students as soon as they are entered. Grades that have already been hidden will remain hidden. The other option reads, Manually Post Grades. Grades will be hidden by default. Any grades that have already posted will remain visible. Choose when to post grades for each assignment on each column in the gradebook. Dana checks the bubble next to Manually Post Grades, which expands the option to say, While the grades for an assignment are set to manual, students will not receive new notifications about or be able to see: Their grade for the assignment. Grade change notifications. Submission comments. Curving assignments. Score change notifications. Once a grade is posted manually, it will automatically send new notifications and be visible to students.

(SPEECH)
There's also Manually Post Grades. So if you know that you are going to grade and you don't ever want your students to see them until you're ready to see them, I would do a manually post grades. But then you're going to have to remember to post them. But if it's just here there like your end of the unit or your project presentations or whatever, it's not going to be all of them, you can post it manually.

So I'm going to come over here to the three dots on this assignment, and because it's hidden and I've graded them, I'm going to actually go ahead and post those grades so that everyone will see their grade.

(DESCRIPTION)
For Notice and Wonder, Dana clicks the three-dot button, then selects Post Grades from the dropdown, opening a right-side pop-out that says, Post Grades. 15 Hidden. One option says, Everyone. All students will be able to see their grade and/or submission comments. The next option reads, Graded. Students who have received a grade or a cubmiscion comment will he anle to see their grade and/or submission comments. A turned-off toggle below reads, Specific Sections. Dana clicks the blue Post button in the pop-out.

(SPEECH)
Or you can do it so that only those people who have turned in and gotten a grade can see their grade. So I'm going to go ahead and click on Post, you'll see that it's going to update and now that eyeball, that cross that eyeball is gone.

(DESCRIPTION)
For the Notice and Wonder assignment, the crossed out eye no long appears next to each score.

(SPEECH)
So if I come in here now you can see that I can hide those grades. So you're either posting so they can see them, or you're hiding them so they can't see them.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the three-dot button for the assignment, then mouses over Hide grades in the dropdown.

(SPEECH)
So this one once I'm ready I would go ahead and post grades.

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Dana clicks the three dots for the Balanced Reaction assignment and hovers over Post grades in the dropdown.

(SPEECH)
But if you don't have that setting checked, then it will automatically show them the grade. When you're setting up an assignment if you know that you're going to want that hidden just before they start turning things in, go ahead and go into the three dots and hide that assignment from the grades if you are wanting to do that. So a couple other things, I can search students here. When I click in here I can look at just Jennifer. So now I'm just looking at Jennifer's progress. And if I click on Jennifer's name, and I click on Grades and this is for anybody, I'm going to see what Jennifer sees.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks inside a search bar that reads, Student Name, in the upper left. She clicks the student name, Jennifer Jones, from an auto-populated list. Now, the grade book displays only Jennifer's notes column, total, and assignment scores. Dana clicks Jennifer's name in the table, opening a right-side pop-out. She clicks the Grades button near the top, opening Jennifer's view of her grades.

(SPEECH)
So now here's Jennifer's view and I can see that she's missing this, she got a 0 on this, this one is hidden so I haven't posted that grade yet so she doesn't know what her grade is.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana mouses over the table of Jennifer's assignments. One has a red missing tag in the status column. For the score on the Introduce Yourself assignment, the table displays a crossed out eyeball out of 0, indicating a hidden score.

(SPEECH)
Down here it shows my assignment group. So she has 0% in homework and 0% in assignments. We can go back and choose a student who has some scores. So let's take a look at James. And I'm going to click on James' grades.

(DESCRIPTION)
At the bottom of Jennifer's grades page, the category of homework, the category of assignments, and total all display 0s. Dana navigates back to her own grade book on the white vertical menu, then clicks James Anderson. She clicks the Grades button on James' pop-out, opening his view of his grades.

(SPEECH)
And you can see here again, it's hidden but he got 50 out of 50. This one he's turned in but I have not graded it yet. And he can see that too because he sees the icon instead of a score.

And I also have a comment here that James sent me so it shows documentation. So he can actually say, well, I emailed you or I sent you a comment and I haven't heard back yet, but it hasn't been graded.

(DESCRIPTION)
James has a hidden score for one assignment, a 50 out of 50 for another, and a submission icon out of 50 for the Balanced Reaction assignment, indicating a submission that has not yet been graded. A speech bubble icon with a 1 inside sits to the right of this assignment. Dana clicks the speech bubble icon, opening James' comment that reads, "I attached my assignment."

(SPEECH)
And if I come down here you can see he's got 100% in homework, and he hasn't turned anything in for assignments yet but there's been nothing due.

(DESCRIPTION)
At the bottom of the page, James has a 100% for the homework category, N A for assignments, and a 100% total.

(SPEECH)
So they can see their breakdown for themselves as well. And if you are working in terms, they will have a drop down here that they can arrange by term.

So they can see last semesters term versus the semesters term depending on how your Canvas terms are set up. So that would be how they would see that.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks an Arrange By dropdown in the upper right. Options say, Assignment Group, Due Date, Module, and Name. Dana goes back to her grade book.

(SPEECH)
So that's searching for students. Applying filters, I can come in here and I can only look at unit 1. So if I'm-- or maybe I only want to look at the assignments that are in unit 2. So if I'm filtering for unit 2 those assignments are these right here. These three assignments, they're not due yet.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks, Apply Filters, beneath the student name search bar. Filter options in a dropdown say, Modules, Assignment Groups, Status, Submissions, and Start and End Date. Dana clicks Modules, which opens a further dropdown that lists Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3. She clicks Unit 2, causing the grade book table to only display Unit 2 assignments. A submission icon, the document and clock, sits in Elizabeth's row for one of the Unit 2 assignments. The rest of the assignment cells are blank.

(SPEECH)
Notice Elizabeth got ahead and she turned something in but I haven't graded it yet. But now I'm only looking at unit 2.

I can clear that filter and now I'm looking at all my assignments.

(DESCRIPTION)
Next to the Apply Filters button, Dana clicks an X on a tag that says, Unit 2. Now the grade book displays all the assignments once more.

(SPEECH)
Or I can apply Assignment Group, so maybe I only want to look at my Homework. I want to see who's turning in homework and who's not.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Apply Filters, Assignment Groups, then Homework, which filters the grade book to only show the homework assignments.

(SPEECH)
And notice here I have two Notice and Wonders. This one has grades associated with it, this one is all grayed out. And so what this is, but Richard has turned this in here. This is a differentiated assignment.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana gestures over the two columns with the same name, Notice and Wonder. The cells in the first Notice and Wonder column are all grayed out, except for a submission icon in Richard's cell. The other Notice and Wonder column lists scores for the other students.

(SPEECH)
So when I have Richard who's on an IEP, and he gets a modified version of every assignment, instead of trying to wait until he and I can connect in person for me to give him his altered assignment, I created an assignment based on the one that the whole class gets just for him, and assigned it just to him so no one else sees it.

That way no one else knows that he gets an altered assignment but he has a place to turn it in. And so what I would probably do here is excuse him from this one, because this is where his score is going to count.

(DESCRIPTION)
In the main Notice and Wonder column, Dana types E X on Richard's row to change his cell for the main assignment to say, Excused.

(SPEECH)
And so he won't get the 50 points here, but I'm going to come in here and I'm going to say he completed this assignment, which is his altered assignment, and accommodated assignment and you'll notice that it shows a green check mark for him but nobody else will see that.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Richard's cell for his custom assignment, then clicks the downward arrow, then selects the checkmark.

(SPEECH)
So it doesn't confuse anybody else, he and I are on the same page, I can give him assignment at night and if he's checking Canvas, he and his parents, he's going to get-- and I know a lot of you don't have under 18 so it might just be the student, but that's a differentiated example. OK, so let's take a look at-- let me see if I'm, oh I know. I'm going to go ahead and then there's status. So you can take a look at-- you can filter by statuses. So see who's missing and who's resubmitted all of that. I'm going to clear all my filters with that one here.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Apply Filters, then Status, then mouses over the options, Late, Missing, Resubmitted, Dropped, and Excused. She clears her homework filter. She clicks Apply Filters again, then Modules, then Unit 1.

(SPEECH)
But you have all of these different things that you can filter your Gradebook by. Now that's just the view. And so if I wanted to look at just my unit 1 work because we haven't gotten to unit 2 or 3, and I want to export this, I can export the current view so that I'm only exporting my unit 1 grades.

(DESCRIPTION)
With the grade book displaying only Unit 1 grades, Dana clicks the Export button in the upper right, to the left of the gear icon. Options from a dropdown say, Export Current Gradebook View, and Export Entire Gradebook.

(SPEECH)
So maybe my department chair we have the same curriculum, we want to compare, so we're all going to export our Gradebooks for unit 1 to do that comparison and then you don't have to worry about all the other data that gets downloaded. Or I can do the entire Gradebook. So that's really great. Go ahead.

SPEAKER 2: Quick question. So on Apply Filters, if we wanted to create a title that said quizzes for example, you go under Assignment Groups and create a title for that?

DANA THOMPSON: Yeah. So you wouldn't want to do quizzes because there's already quizzes as a--

SPEAKER 2: As a navigation bar, yeah.

DANA THOMPSON: Right. But so if I have two assignment groups, I have my homework and my in-class assignments, but maybe I'm going to create a managed filter preset. And this is brand new by the way so this is because so many people ask for this, they created this option. I'm going to create a filter preset that is my midterm. Midterm work.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Apply Filter, then goes back from the modules menu to the main filter dropdown. She clicks, Create and Manage Filter Presets, opening a right-side pop-out. She clicks an arrow at the beginning of the bottom, Create Filter Preset, expanding options and fields below.

(SPEECH)
And that's going to include modules from unit 1, just my assignments because my homework I don't want to. Or I can do by submission.

So a view that you look at a lot that's not one of the preset filters, you can absolutely set one up for yourself. So I'm going to look at my midterm work for unit 1 with an end date of January 16.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana creates a preset with the name Midterm work, selects Unit 1 from the Modules dropdown, the assignment group, Assignments, from the next dropdown, makes no selections for Submissions or Start Date, and Selects January 16th 2024 from the End Date calendar. She clicks Save Filter Preset at the bottom of the pop-out.

(SPEECH)
And then you can save that filter preset so that it will come in and if I now come over to my filters, you'll notice that is one of my presets.

(DESCRIPTION)
When Dana clicks Apply Filters again, the option, Midterm Work, is listed in the dropdown under, Saved Filter Presets.

(SPEECH)
So you can create your own presets.

SPEAKER 2: OK.

DANA THOMPSON: Brand new, I honestly haven't used that yet but I'm excited to. So that's filters but you can also search specific assignments. So this lists all the ones that are published because I hid my unpublished one. And I can come down and this was a quizlet I wanted them to do, it was just an activity and you can see in here that it's not showing up because it's not in unit 1.

So I'm going to clear my unit 1 filter right here, and there it is right here, no one's done it yet. But

(DESCRIPTION)
To the right of the Student Name search bar, Dana clicks into the Assignment Name search bar and selects an assignment from the pre-populated list. She clears her Unit 1 filter, then the column for her searched assignment appears in the table. The column is blank for each student.

(SPEECH)
they don't have to because it's not due yet. But you can search for specific assignments, specific students, or apply those filters. Go ahead.

SPEAKER 2: And then so that Notes column, did you create that or was that also under the Applied Filters?

DANA THOMPSON: No, the Notes column is under the View Options.

SPEAKER 2: OK. Got it, got it. OK, under the wheel.

DANA THOMPSON: It's a lot. You have to get in here and play.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the gear icon, goes to the View Options tab, and mouses over the checked box next to Notes.

(SPEECH)
SPEAKER 2: Yeah, all right. Thank you.

DANA THOMPSON: If you drop down right here, this is your view. So I'm looking at the traditional Gradebook. Some of you might be using outcomes and rubrics to help students with learning mastery. This is a whole other webinar but I just want to give you a little preview. So if you come to the Rubrics and Outcomes, I'll show you how to set that up because then that information populates this learning mastery Gradebook where instead of seeing your student's progress assignment by assignment, you're going to see them based on their goals or their outcomes.

(DESCRIPTION)
Above the Student Name search bar, Dana clicks a downward arrow next to, Gradebook, opening a dropdown that reads, Change Gradebook view. Traditional Gradebook, Learning Mastery Gradebook, Individual Gradebook, Gradebook History. She clicks Learning and Mastery, opening a blank page with a color-coded key that reads, Exceeds Mastery, Meets Mastery, Near Mastery, and Well Below Mastery.

(SPEECH)
So if you have your standards in there and you want to see if they are meeting those standards rather than seeing a letter grade, or a number, you're going to see whether they are meeting, almost meeting or exceeding those standards based on the rubric and the outcome. So if that's something that you're interested in learning about, I highly recommend coming to that webinar. But since we don't have any of that information set up, I just wanted to show that to you. But then you can also see that individual Gradebook, and again, that's where you come in here and you can view by student.

So then would come down here and I just want to see Michael and then this is what you can see. And this is great when you're having those personal conversations with students on how they're doing.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana selects Individual Gradebook from the Gradebook dropdown. She scrolls down the page, then selects Hernandez, Michael from a Select a student dropdown under the heading, Content Selection. She scrolls down the page to a section called Student Information. A grade table below shows grades for the categories Homework and Assignments, and a final grade at the bottom.

(SPEECH)
I honestly don't use this view as much as I do going into their grade view because I want to teach them how to fish. So I'm going to teach them how to go into their grades and access the comments and the grade and all of that.

But this is here if you want to use it and you just drop down this menu to toggle back and forth where you want.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana goes back into the Gradebook dropdown and selects Gradebook History, which opens a table with columns for date, student, grader, artifact, before, after, and current. Filter fields above have drop-down for student, graders artifact, start date, and end date.

(SPEECH)
Now for Gradebook history, you can see that it's logged everything that I've done in the Gradebook and if you have multiple teachers in there, it will tell you who's been the grader? What did they grade? If it's something that they submitted and resubmitted, what was the grade before? What was the grade after? What it is currently.

So this is really great if somebody says, oh, but I had an A last week and now it shows I have a B, you come in here and see if that's true. But it's good data if you want to use that. Any question on grades or anything you need me to show you again before we move into SpeedGrader? OK.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana changes browser tabs to go back to her slide presentation.

(SPEECH)
So I'm going to come back here for just a second. So now we're going to take a look at SpeedGrader. So SpeedGrader is a tool in Canvas that a lot of people don't know about but once you do you're going to love it.

It allows you to view all of your students by assignment rather than the Gradebook which is more of a spreadsheet view, where you can go in and actually see what they uploaded and provide comments, give them a grade, all of that stuff and then just click next to the next student. So those of you who like to grade on an iPad or a mobile device, the SpeedGrader is so much easier to use than Gradebook. Gradebook is great when you're on a computer where you have a mouse and you can click around but the SpeedGrader is much more functional when you have those mobile devices and a regular computer.

But I found when I was teaching online I would like to sit on the couch and use my iPad to go through the grading because it was easier.

(DESCRIPTION)
Text, What is SpeedGrader? A tool within Canvas that allows instructors to quickly view and grade students' submissions for Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes. Access SpeedGrader through: Assignments, Quizzes, Graded Discussions, Gradebook, Modules. A screenshot on the slide shows an essay with a righthand pop-out with word count, comments, and a field for a grade.

(SPEECH)
But there are many ways you can access SpeedGrader, you'll find the way that works for you. But you can get to them directly from within an assignment or a quiz or a discussion and I'll show you each one of those. You can get to it directly from the Gradebook and you can get to it from modules as well as when you're on your home page. So we'll take a look at that.

Why do we use SpeedGraders? Because you can enter scores and feedback quickly.

(DESCRIPTION)
Text, Grade with a Rubric. Hint: make sure to check the box to grade with rubric when setting up your Assignments.

(SPEECH)
You can grade with a rubric in SpeedGrader, you cannot use that rubric in the Gradebook view when you're putting in your points. So if you're using a rubric to grade your students work, this is the way that you can go in and really use that to help communicate to your students. You can access a media recorder so that you can provide voice feedback, vocal feedback or visual video feedback, which is really nice sometimes especially if you're in a 100% online class because that provides that connection between you and your students because they don't get to see you in person.

So this is just another way that they can relate to you a little bit. And that's speech-to-text tool is great. It's like Siri or Alexa or whatever where you can turn it on and speak your comments which for me I can do much easier than I'm trying to type with my thumbs. And then there's a comment library which is amazing. So I'm going to show you all of those different areas.

(DESCRIPTION)
Text, Document Viewer in SpeedGrader. A screenshot on the slide shows a document with a highlighted section and a toolbar above with a marker icon selected.

(SPEECH)
Just real quick, this is what a student's uploaded submission would look like in SpeedGrader.

And so this is where you have these tools up here where you can provide comments within their work rather than just a bubble. In paragraph two you forgot to put this or whatever, you can actually highlight in paragraph two and then provide a bubble here that's connected to it so they can apply that feedback much more efficiently to their work. So it's a really great tool for anything that is submitted, PDF, Word document. If they're linking to a Google Doc, you can do the same things in that Google Doc. It's the same functionality by adding comments and highlighting their work and those kinds of things.

SPEAKER 3: A quick question. If you insist is it text entry or something where you can't access these--

DANA THOMPSON: They uploaded. Yeah, so they actually have to upload something. If it's just a text entry you can still give comments on the side but you can't annotate it like you can with a submission. So it has to be one of those upload a file here type thing. And if you want to keep it within SpeedGrader and you don't have the Google LTI functionality which I know is hard sometimes especially in the adult schools because you don't have control over our Google account for your students, what I have my students do if they create something in Google I have them download it or save a copy on their computer as either a Word file or a PDF.

That's right in the Google download as they choose one of those two file types. And then I'll have them upload it into Canvas so that it's in Canvas and I can use the annotations instead of linking out to Google and then maybe not having the ability to annotate. Also with the text entry you can't annotate. So if you want to be able to annotate on their work, it needs to be a PDF or a Word document that they've uploaded. Or a slide deck, it works with PowerPoint as well.

SPEAKER 3: Thanks.

(DESCRIPTION)
Text, Demo. Feel free to open SpeedGrader from one of your Assignments.

(SPEECH)
DANA THOMPSON: Good question. So again we're going to demo. So I'm going to come back here a couple of ways. Here I'm going to come on my Home screen and you'll notice that I have four people who have uploaded their work for this balanced reactions assignment. So I can go directly to that assignment from here, and it takes me straight into SpeedGrader.

(DESCRIPTION)
On her home page in Canvas, a red notification icon with a 4 inside sits beside the Grade Balanced Reaction item in her To Do list on the righthand side. Dana clicks the To Do list item, opening SpeedGrader.

(SPEECH)
Now the nice thing is here's James and again, these are demos so I just uploaded whatever was on my computer.

So James has submitted this PDF and I know that James submitted it because it has an orange dot next to it. Susan and Patricia and Robert, they didn't turn those in and from the Gradebook view-- remember I gave everybody who was missing it a 0-- so it shows that it's been graded already because I gave them a 0, but if I take a look at Susan, you can see that it does not have a submission assignment. So

(DESCRIPTION)
The SpeedGrader window shows a text document with a right-side pop-out. Dana clicks James Anderson's name above the pop-out, opening a dropdown of other student names. James and Elizabeth have orange circles next to their names. The other students have checkmarks. Dana clicks Susan in the dropdown. Instead of displaying a text document, the page says, This student does not have a submission for this assignment.

(SPEECH)
one of the things I like to do is if a student doesn't have an assignment, I want them to know what's next. Can I still turn it in? Is it just a 0? What can I do as a student?

So I'm going to come in here and I'm going to add a comment. This is past due. I'm going to make this a little general because I want to be able to use this comment over and over. This is past due, please submit by Friday for full credit after or whatever.

(DESCRIPTION)
The pop-out displays a red missing tag, a score currently set to 0 out of 50, and a comments field. Dana enters her comment

(SPEECH)
So this comment I'm going to put on all of my students. But instead of copying and pasting a whole bunch of times, what I'm going to do is I'm going to add this to my comment library. So that's this little bubble right here. So I'm going to click on that.

(DESCRIPTION)
Above the top right corner of the comment field, Dana clicks a speech bubble icon, opening the comment library. Text above reads, Manage Comment Library. A turned-on toggle button reads, Show suggestions when writing. A list of comments with pencil and trash can icons is displayed below. Below the list, a field says, Add comment to library.

(SPEECH)
And so these are comments in here that I've added already in other classes. So the comment library follows you.

So I use Google Docs a lot but a lot of the times my students forget to give me permission to view it. So instead of typing this in every time, I just come into my comment library and I choose this comment.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana mouses over a comment that reads, I cannot open your Google Doc. Please go into your Share settings and make sure it is set to anyone with the link can view.

(SPEECH)
Or this is a great reflection, thank you for your feedback. This is great for those discussion assignments, and I want them even my positive comments, I want to be able to provide students. So you can see in here different comments that I have. So a reminder, you are out for five days, this is now due for you on or whatever. So if I want to add a comment to the comment library, I'm going to come type it in here.

So again, I'm going to say, this is past due, please turn in by Friday. And you can put a specific date here or whatever. And so I'm not going to put a period, I'm going to add my Add to Library.

(DESCRIPTION)
After entering the comment in the field, Dana clicks a blue button with a plus sign that reads, Add to Library below the comment box. A notification appears that reads, Comment Added.

(SPEECH)
And if I come up here or down here, here it is at the bottom so I'm going to choose that. Please turn in by Friday, and then I'm going to add January 19. So January 19 is the only thing I have to add because this is a different assignment. And so now I'm going to submit.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana selects the comment from the library, then adds January 19 to the end. She clicks Submit at the bottom of the pop-out.

(SPEECH)
So when Susan comes in she's going to see that she got a 0 out of 50 but that she can still turn it in until Friday. So I've communicated that to her and there's been no miscommunication with emails back and forth. So now I'm just going to click the Next button. And Patricia had the same thing. So I'm going to click on my comment library, come down here and then just add January 15. And

(DESCRIPTION)
Above the pop-out, Dana clicks next, to the right of Susan's name, bringing up Patricia's assignment. Like Susan, Patricia has a blank page that reads, This student does not have a submission for this assignment. Dana clicks the speech bubble comment library icon, clicks her recently-added comment, and adds, January 15 to the end. She submits.

(SPEECH)
sometimes I like to personalize it so that my students know. So Robert, again, but I already commented that he has until the 22nd. So I don't need to add another comment. So not only did this communicate to him, it reminded me that he has a 0 but he's not late yet.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks next, bringing up Robert's assignment. Her pervious comment appears in the pop-out under a section titled, Assignment Comments.

(SPEECH)
So I'm going to leave that one alone and go to my next one. Elizabeth, you can see she has an orange dot just like James did and that's because she turned something in and I haven't graded it yet. And you can see here that I can download her file if I wanted to download it and look at it, or I can look at it in here.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana scrolls down the PDF of Elizabeth's submission. In the pop-out, the PDF title is a link with a trashcan icon and download icon.

(SPEECH)
So maybe I want to tell her that this is-- let me go back to James. So I'm going to come up here to James and let's say he wrote this article. He didn't but let's say he did.

So I want to come in here and I'm going to click on my highlight tool and I'm going to choose the color pink, and I'm going to highlight this first sentence.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana selects James from the dropdown again, opening his assignment. From the toolbar above, she selects a marker icon, fifth from the right. From a palette of six colors, she chooses pink, then highlights a section of James' PDF.

(SPEECH)
And I'm going to give him some feedback by clicking this item right here, and I'm going to say, great introduction and thesis statement.

(DESCRIPTION)
When Dana finishes her highlight, an icon with lines of text appears near the highlighted section. She clicks this button, opening a comment box titled with her name. She enters her comment.

(SPEECH)
So I can come down here and say how it works, maybe we want to use a different color and put celebrate successes, and ask him to find a better word combination whatever. I'm just making this up right now. But you can see that I'm coming in here and annotating this using my tools up here at the top.

(DESCRIPTION)
She changes her highlighter color on the palette, highlights a different section, and adds the comment.

(SPEECH)
And so maybe high achievers have extraordinary stamina. Actually I don't want to highlight that so I'm going to cross that out. What I do want is to strike that because high achievers may not necessarily have extraordinary stamina so how can you make that a statement. May not be true, watch your statements.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana selects a strikeout tool from the toolbar, an S with a line through it, third button from the right. She drags her cursor across a section, crossing it out. In the same way as before, she clicks the lines of text button and adds a comment.

(SPEECH)
So I can go through and annotate this and then I can say he got 45 out of 50, and I can add a comment, very well done please review my comments.

(DESCRIPTION)
In the right-side pop-out, Dana enters James' grade as 45. She types a comment in the box below. Now James has a checkmark icon by his name at the top, instead of a dot.

(SPEECH)
And so now James has a check mark instead of an orange which tells me that he's gotten a grade and I've provided feedback.

So can very quickly look at my students and see, OK I need to grade Elizabeth, the rest of these, I need to grade Richard's and I need to test student whatever. So notice that they're in alphabetical order by their last name. But sometimes I find grading all of those who've submitted them and then grading all of those that I need to provide that comment to would be faster. So I'm going to come over here to my gear on the left hand side, so over here in the corner, and I have some options. Again, I'm going to set it up for me only, not for my students.

(DESCRIPTION)
Above the toolbar, Dana clicks a gear icon in the upper left, opening a dropdown that says, Options, Keyboard Shortcuts, and Help. She clicks Options, opening a small popup.

(SPEECH)
So in my options I'm going to actually list my students by submission status. So they're chunked together so that I can save these settings. So I'm going to reload my SpeedGrader and now when I look in here all of the ones that I still need to grade are at the top. And when I go into the next assignment it's going to remember that.

(DESCRIPTION)
From a dropdown titled, Sort student list, Dana chooses, by submission status (needs grading, not submitted, etc). Other options say, by student name (alphabetically), and, they date they submitted the assignment. Dana leaves a box unchecked that reads, Hide student names in the SpeedGrader, then clicks Save Settings. After reloading the page, she clicks James Anderson's name at the top right of the page, opening the list of student names. All the students with orange circles are grouped at the top of the list. Those with checks are grouped below.

(SPEECH)
So all of the ones that are done are at the bottom. And this is really nice if you're grading. Like I would set aside time every day to grade otherwise I would get so far behind I'd feel overwhelmed.

So if I wanted to do that when I come in to SpeedGrader, I only want to see at the top those that I need to address. The rest are done and I can go to the next assignment. So coming over to my options to sort my students by submission type for me was what much more efficient than keeping them in alphabetical order. But could always click on Options again and go back to alphabetical or even by the date they submitted it.

(DESCRIPTION)
She opens the Options popup again and gestures over the sort options, then hits Cancel, closing the popup. She mouses over the crossed out eye icon in the upper left of the page above the toolbar.

(SPEECH)
You can see here that it's showing me this assignment is hidden, so that's that post or hide. So I don't have to go back to my Gradebook to post these grades. I can come in here and post these grades so that all my students see their assignments from SpeedGrader. I don't have to click back to Gradebook and then find the column and post it there. So I've just saved myself three clicks by posting it here. And want everybody-- or I could just say only those who have been graded so far can see their grades, so you can choose.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the crossed out eye, then clicks, Post Grades from the dropdown. Another right-side pop-out opens with the Everyone and Graded options. She leaves the Everyone option selected and submits. A notification reads, Success! Grades have been posted to everyone for Balanced Reactions Assignment - Example of Page Differentiation. Dana hovers over an icon in the very top left of the page, to the left of the eye icon.

(SPEECH)
And then this icon is basically your doorway into your Gradebook. So I've graded my-- it's posting the grades now, it's giving in a minute. So now everybody's been graded. So I would need to come in here and make sure that I give Elizabeth a grade. So again, I would come through annotator assignment, give her a grade, maybe give her a feedback, great flexion or in a few days return so you can respond to your peers. That's good for a peer review assignment whatever. That didn't make sense for this assignment.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana gives Elizabeth a 35 in the right-side pop-out and scroll through the comment library. Now Elizabeth has a checkmark instead of a dot. She clicks Next to go to the next student's assignment.

(SPEECH)
And then I can go to my test student and this was the wrong assignment. So I'm actually going to give them a 0 so that they know that I saw it and I'm going to put, this is the wrong document, please resubmit by Friday for full credit. And then click on Submit.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana gives Test Student a 0, enters the comment, and clicks Submit at the bottom right of the pop-out.

(SPEECH)
And then I can see that Richard-- again, this is your-- he's actually turned it in twice. So he's the one that had that green re-submission. So I can come up here and I can take a look at his first submission and that was the wrong assignment. So I'm going to go ahead and take a look at his second submission, and this is the correct assignment.

So now I can either use the same grade or I can come in here and give him the grade that he now has.

(DESCRIPTION)
A dropdown is titled Submission to view at the top of the pop-out. Dana opens the dropdown, displaying two submission dates. The first date reads, grade:0 after it. Dana clicks the first submission date. The assignment displayed on the page is a dot plot. She clicks the second submission date. The assignment displayed is a text document. A button below the grade field, which reads 0, says, Use this same grade for the resubmission. Dana enters 50 into the grade field.

(SPEECH)
And so now it changes it.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana summits Richard's grade, turning his dot to a checkmark.

(SPEECH)
So I'm done with this assignment now and I come in here and check. They all have green check marks next to them.

(DESCRIPTION)
She opens the dropdown of student names from above the pop-out and scrolls through them. Each name has a checkmark next to it.

(SPEECH)
I can either go back to this assignment where I can get into the Edit settings and do all of that, or I can go back to my course name, now the name of my course is Gradebook and SpeedGrader but your course name would be here. So I could click here and go back to my home page or I could go to my Gradebook.

So you have ways to get to different parts of Canvas without having to do a whole bunch of clicks.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana mouses over the assignment name link I the very top of the page, then the course name below it. Then she hovers over the Gradebook icon in the very top left of the page, to the left of the eye, gear, and course name.

(SPEECH)
So I'm going to go back to my Gradebook. And I'm going to switch back to my traditional grade book view, and you'll take a look at that assignment which we just did that was the balanced reactions. And you can see here I've got some of those other grades in there that have been entered.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana goes to her grade book, then goes back to the traditional grade book through the Gradebook dropdown in the upper left. Dana scroll to the Balanced Reaction assignment column in the table, which lists mostly 0s in reddish pink cells. Richard's cell lists a 50. Test Student lists a 0 in a blue cell.

(SPEECH)
So notice that Richard his was green, it's now has a green border around it which kind of shows me that he turned it in on time, and he now has a score and it no longer needs to be regraded because just regraded it. And test student has a 0 but it was late because it's blue. Michael.

SPEAKER 3: Yeah, I'm in adulthood and I give a lot of feedback on assignments but I don't really use the Gradebook that much. It's a little lower stress place. But I had heard sometimes-- again, I do I use the SpeedGrader for writing assignments and such, I like to give a lot of feedback. But sometimes I hide the Gradebook from my navigation and I'd heard sometimes that you actually should even if it's not grade intensive, they should have access to the grade book to see the feedback. Is that true or?

DANA THOMPSON: Well, that's a good point. So let me-- I'm going to come back here to my settings and hide the grade view. So, in my navigation, I'm going to hide grades so that they're not tempted to go in there and see their grades and get anxious and all of that.

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Dana navigates to the Settings page from the white vertical menu. She clicks the Navigation tab which displays two lists of items. One reads, Drag and drop items to reorder them in the course navigation. The next reads, Drag items here to hide them from students. Disabling most pages will cause students who visit those pages to be redirected to the course home page. Dana drags the item, Grades, from the first list to the second list below.

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And so now I'm going to come back to my grades, and let's go in as Richard or James because he has a bunch of scores in there. And I'm going to act as James. Again, you probably don't have this feature, I do because this is a demo class.

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Dana goes back to her grade book, clicks James Anderson in the grade table, opening a right-side poppet, then clicks, Act as User near the top, below in icon with James' initials. After scrolling through the Act as User info page and clicking Proceed at the bottom, James' home page is displayed. A notification icon with a 3 inside sits next to Grades in the white vertical menu.

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So now I'm looking at Canvas and oh, it shows my grades, it's not supposed to. Oh, because I didn't save. Gosh darn it, Google has trained me not to save anything anymore and with Canvas you have to. So navigation, drag my grades down and save. OK. Now Grades is hidden, so now I'm going to go back in as James. I know, me too.

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Dana goes back to save the navigation setting that hid grades. She re-enters View as User as James.

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OK, so I'm going to come into my Gradebook and SpeedGrader, oh, before I do that, I do want to show you acting as James, notice that I'm on my dashboard and I see all my to-do as well.

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With Dashboard selected from the left-most blue menu, the body of the page displays a tile that says, Gradebook and SpeedGrader Gradebook and SpeedGrader. The To Do list of assignments sits on the right side of the page.

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So if I've got two or three classes, this is where I'm going to see everything I have to do this week. So it populates there as well as within the course.

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Dana clicks Courses in the left-most blue menu. Now the white menu does not list grades. She scrolls past the To Do list to a Recent Feedback section below it. Checkmarks sit next to three feedback items in the list.

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So I don't have access to my grades, but I can come down here and here's my recent feedback. So I know I got 50 out of 50 on this Notice and Wonder and I can go into the assignment itself. And so James submitted something as a text entry and got credit for it. I can go in here and if a rubric was used, I can click on Show Rubric to see where my scores were.

I can resubmit my assignment. So I see everything, I know I got a 50 out of 50, so I can see everything for that assignment but I don't have a place where I can see how I'm doing in the course as a whole.

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Dana clicks the Notice and Wonder feedback item, opening a Submission Details page. The body of the page displays James' text submission. Dana moves over a Re-submit Assignment button toward the upper left, to a Show Rubric button above it. She clicks the button opening a rubric in a popup, with two criteria and three rating categories.

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SPEAKER 3: OK. Thanks.

DANA THOMPSON: So that would be the difference. If they need to be able to see and-- so they really can't self monitor themselves this way.

SPEAKER 3: OK, and maybe one other thing on that to-do list, like today I noticed I assigned a discussion but it wasn't graded. So if I don't make it graded it doesn't show up in to-do list. Is that--

DANA THOMPSON: It will show up in to-do list if it has a due date.

SPEAKER 3: OK.

DANA THOMPSON: It will show up in the recent feedback once you've graded it and provided feedback.

SPEAKER 3: OK.

DANA THOMPSON: But those will be the only two places besides the module they'll be able to access it. But if they wanted to see how they were doing with that assignment against others, they will not be able to see that. So the to-do list needs that due date for it to populate there whether it's graded or not.

SPEAKER 3: OK. Yeah I guess I mean, sorry to sidetrack you but you don't get the due date on discussions until you say graded?

DANA THOMPSON: That's a good question, I--

SPEAKER 3: It's no big deal. I don't want to get you off.

DANA THOMPSON: No, no, no, it's a good one because I don't want to give you false information. So if I go in here and I create a discussion--

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In teacher view, Dana clicks Discussions from the white vertical menu. She clicks a plus sign Discussion button in the upper right to create a new discussion. She scrolls down the page to options that say, Anonymous Discussion. Off: student names and profile pictures will be visible to other members of this course. Partial: students can choose to reveal their name and profile picture. Full: student names and profile pictures will be hidden. Users must post before seeing replies. Enable podcast feed. Graded. Allow liking.

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OK, I see what you're saying. Yeah, it needs to be a graded discussion to go on a to-do list and in the Gradebook. However, you can put an available from and until but it still won't go on the to-do list.

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Dana clicks the box next to Graded, then unchecks it. She scrolls further, coming to two date fields called Available From and Until.

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So yes, in order for it to go on to-do list, you need to check that it's a graded discussion that will put it on to-do list and create a column in the Gradebook. Good question.

OK, so back at grades. And am looking at the time here. So I showed you how to get to SpeedGrader from your to-do list. You can also get to SpeedGrader by clicking these three dots and choosing SpeedGrader for this assignment. So if I wanted to get to the file annotation assignment, I would click the three dots there and go to SpeedGrader there.

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In the grade book, Dana clicks the three-dot button on different assignment names and mouses over SpeedGrader in the dropdown.

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Now, if I'm looking at an assignment that I've mostly graded already but say somebody's turned something in and of course I don't have one here.

But say I want to look at Joseph's assignment I can go into grades here.

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Dana clicks Joseph Johnson's name in the table, then mouses over the Grades button in the righthand pop-out that opens.

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I can also choose-- let me close this out-- choose his assignment for this balanced reaction and click on this little arrow to get the fly out to go to his SpeedGrader view, so that can come in here, take a look at what he's assigned, give him points, give them feedback and submit.

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Dana clicks the cell for Joseph's Balanced Reactions assignment, then clicks the rightward arrow in the cell to open the fly-out. She clicks a SpeedGrader button toward the top, above the grade field. She clicks the button, entering the SpeedGrader page for Joseph's assignment. She clicks the dropdown arrow next to his name at the top right, opening the list of student names.

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And I still have access to get everybody else but it takes me directly to Joseph from the Gradebook when you do it that way.

So several ways you can get into SpeedGrader. The other way is if you go into an assignment-- and here's the assignment-- before you click the Edit button, you can go to SpeedGrader here.

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Dana clicks the Introduce Yourself assignment from her home page. She gestures over the Edit button with the pencil toward the top left. She moves left to mouse over a SpeedGrader link. Text below the link reads, 2 out of 2 Submissions Graded.

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This will only show up if it's published because if it's not published students don't have access to it so you don't need SpeedGrader. So once you've published an assignment you'll have the SpeedGrader access here and it will give you a preview. Two out of two submissions have been graded, so don't need to go in here into SpeedGrader because they've all been graded already.

But maybe more people have turned it in so can access SpeedGrader from the assignment itself. So from the home page to-do list, from the three dots in Gradebook or from the assignment, graded discussion, graded quizzes, itself. Those are all different ways that you can get into SpeedGrader. Any questions?

SPEAKER 3: I have a rubric related question. Particularly getting them so it's not just an individual teacher's, so it's more institution wide or sub-account wide. I still don't quite understand how to do that.

DANA THOMPSON: So if you're a Canvas admin--

SPEAKER 3: Yes.

DANA THOMPSON: You will go into your Admin shield and go and create the rubrics there. So that they are available to your-- you do it at the sub-account level or at the account level so that they're available to everybody in that account or sub-account.

SPEAKER 3: So I have to make them? Like if I made one in my own class or a teacher made one in their class--

DANA THOMPSON:

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Dana mouses over the Admin shield icon in the left-most blue menu. With courses selected in the blue menu and Assignments in the white menu, Dana scrolls down the Introduce Yourself assignment page. She clicks a button that reads plus sign Rubric. It opens a blank rubric with fields for title, criteria, ratings, and points.

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Yeah, so if I went in here and made this rubric, it's only going to be made for me. So but if there's a rubric that is available at the account or sub-account I can go into Find a Rubric and it will be in there because it's available but those have to be made by the admin.

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In the upper right of the rubric creator, to the right of the title field, she clicks a magnifying glass icon that reads, Find a Rubric, opening a popup of courses and associated rubrics.

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SPEAKER 3: Yeah.

DANA THOMPSON: So the teacher I can copy this rubric over to other classes that I teach, but for them to be available to multiple teachers those need to be done by the admin.

SPEAKER 3: OK, so I mean if I make one in one term in one class, it's still going to be available in my account for me in different classes and different terms. And then if I want to share that with another teacher I'd heard that essentially you have to share the whole assignment. That you can't share the rubric it's--

DANA THOMPSON: Correct. That may not be correct. So if I have a rubric here I can come in and yeah, so you would need to share an assignment that has this rubric attached to it.

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Dana clicks a three-dot icon to the right of the Edit button at the top of the assignment page. From a dropdown, she mouses over, Share to Commons. She clicks Rubrics in the white menu. Two rubrics are displayed on the page. She clicks the rubric titled Thin Slides Rubric, opening a rubric with two criteria. A slide reads, This is what the student sees. Arrows from numbered dots point to notification bubbles, late and missing tags, a submission icon, exclamation point icon, and comment bubble icon on the student view grades page.

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OK, so we looked at the student view already but just as a reminder, blue dot is next to something that's new for them. They've got these labels rather than the color coding, they will see an icon if something's been submitted but not graded, they will see the speech bubbles here if the teacher left feedback. And this exclamation point I think that means that it's-- I don't know what that means.

Let me see if I have that somewhere number two. Oh, if it's not factoring towards the final grade. So it's worth 10 points, they're going to get however many points but those two numbers do not factor into their total score nor their score. So those are nice for may do's. And that's it. So any questions or things you need me to redo? Otherwise, have a wonderful day.

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