Canvas Assignments
What Does It Do?
The Assignments tool allows you to administer student assessments of various types. Faculty can collect, download, grade, comment on, and return an assignment to students via the Pepperdine Canvas Assignments interface.
Key Pedagogical Reminders
- Align assignments with learning outcomes and make expectations clear with rubrics.
- Set availability and due dates thoughtfully to encourage time management.
How You Can Use It
- Collect individual or group assignments online.
- Provide detailed feedback to students, including text or file attachments.
- Leverage peer review or anonymous grading options to meet your assessment goals.
- Link Assignments to Gradebook to calculate overall course grades.
Settings for Creating Assignments
- What assignment types can I create in a course?
- How do I add or edit details in an assignment?
- How do I add or edit points for an assignment?
- How do I limit submission attempts for an assignment?
- How do I exclude an assignment from the course's final grades?
- What is the difference between assignment due dates and availability dates?
Assignment Groups (to Categorize or Weight Grades)
- How do I add an assignment group in a course?
- How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?
- How do I move or reorder an assignment group?
Create a Group Assignment (for Team Assignments)
- How do I assign an assignment to everyone, individual students, or sections?
- How do I assign an assignment to a course group?
Assignment Management & Distribution
- How to Publish or Unpublish Assignments
- How do I move or reorder an assignment?
- How do I delete an assignment?
- How do I duplicate an assignment?
- How do I copy an assignment to another course?
- How do I send an assignment to another instructor?
- How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates as an instructor?
Peer Review Assignments
- How do I use peer review assignments in a course?
- How do I create a peer review assignment?
- How do I manually assign peer reviews for an assignment?
- How do I automatically assign peer reviews for an assignment?
- How do I view student peer review comments as an instructor?
Bulk Options for Student Submissions
- How do I download all student submissions for an assignment?
- How do I upload all student submissions for an assignment?