I really like using journal entries as assignments right now. It offers the student a way to obtain a "grade" but also offers them an outlet to write free hand without worry of specifics. I have them write what they worked on that week and what progress they made or what challenges they discovered with their work.
I created text entry assignment for my students, but when I want to grade them using 'speed grader', ut says I need to create student group. Are there any ways I grade the students work on speed grader without me creating student group?
This was so incredibly helpful. I am not only new to teaching at my current level, I am going between online and in person classes. Your clear and concise instructional has been a life saver. Brava and thank you.
You got this! I know its a little overwhelming at first but you'll find a routine and it gets easier every week. Remember to be kind and patient with yourself. Keep it simple and effective and add as you go with the online and tech side. I've got a couple of playlist series for Canvas and one for online teaching if that's helpful. Sending you all the support and let me know if I can ever help!
You are so welcome! and thanks for the feedback and comment. Let me know if there are any specific topics or questions you need me to cover in a tutorial and I'll add it to my list. Happy teaching!
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thank You! I've shared your link with my Kern High School District colleagues and they are thrilled. We are moving to the Canvas platform this summer and next school year. I've already set up my Art classes for the fall with your help. I can't thank you enough! Nancy
Thank you so much for all of your wonderful and inspiring tutorials and tips for online teaching. I begin zoom teaching my university level Spanish courses next week and your expertise and energy have been invaluable!
You are so welcome! You are going to be wonderful and I'm sure your students will very much enjoy your Spanish courses. My father in law teaches Spanish at the university level as well!
Hi there, thank you so much for your tutorials! Can you please tell me how to post assignments over multiple classes or if you have a video on that? I am a middle school teacher and I have 3 of the same classes and don’t want to copy paste all the content.
Oh thank you! I filmed these on a whim to help fellow college professors navigate the last min transition to online teaching in 2020 and I’m so glad they are still helpful years later. Although I no longer provide content on my channel on that topic, I’ve kept all of the online teaching videos up because I’ve heard how helpful they still are to educators even now.
You are so welcome! Anything we can do to help each other and support both teachers and students. Let me know if you need any specific tutorials. I try to post a new one each day to keep adding on the the steps.
Thank you for this video. Very helpful. Question for you how do you remove an assignment group? I have assigned assignment groups from how I arranged things from past classes that I no longer need. I would like to clean up the Assignment Group drop-down menu.
I am loving your videos and learning a lot. My district made Canvas mandatory for all educators this year and I am coming from Google Classroom. I am loving it but it is requiring me a lot of time to configure a class. How did you get the Respondus Lockdown Browser in your Navigation tap? I am looking for it on mine and I can't find it. Thank you!
Thank you, Ashlee, for these videos. Our district tried to do something similar, but your experience has been so helpful!! Quick question...I would like my screen to look like yours. I teach math. I'd like my students to see my paper/screen where I am working out the problems but also see my face in a smaller screen as I am explaining. How do I do that?
Glad it was helpful and thanks so much for the supportive feedback. I use Filmora9 for all of these videos and tutorials. It has a pic in pic function within the program. I'm going to a video tutorial about it this week if that might help too.
Thank you for this! I am developing proficiency with Canvas rapidly because we're 100% online right now. However, I'm having trouble with the difference between submissions from an external tool using Google Drive, URLs, and file uploads. I thought the external tool would be best because they can write in a template I make for them. The problem is that some students couldn't see my feedback on the PDF that it turned it into. Do you already have a video on this topic? I really wish I could see this from the student's perspective, and masquerading as "Test Student" doesn't work because it doesn't show me the Drive options. Right now I'm stuck asking kids to share their screen with me and squinting at the options.
Yes, this can be a little tricky indeed. I always suggest staying within Canvas versus using external tools like google docs, drive, etc. I use either the built in quiz option and edit it for the assignment I'm creating like just an essay and a few matching or true and false questions OR I use the text box option so they just type the assignment in the box OR I use the upload file option and make it required that it's a PDF so I can make notes on it in Canvas speedgrader. I know it feels limited but the less options they get the better actually. It really does simplify it for them and for you. It's much different than an inperson class I know. Hope this helps a little!
You're welcome! I find assignments in Canvas so helpful when creating online content for the students and my the best part is that it makes it so much easier to grade on your end. Is this your first time teaching with Canvas?
Hi Ashlee- do you know if there is a way to “number” pages you’ve created in a specific order? For some reason it always keeps the most recent page created at the top... 🤔
Hi there! good question. Canvas orders the pages alphabetically but you might try starting the title of each page with a number and then it would order it in the way you set it up with that title. Other than that, I haven't found any other solutions for that challenge so far. Let me know if you discover anything though!
Thank you for your video! Do you know why when in student view the assignments have "next" or "previous" tabs? What can I do so they have to do something then go to the next piece? For example, first watch the video, hit next, now complete the assignment?
Create modules for this! When you create modules it gives you the next button and shows the students a flow that you've specifically set up for them that day or that week. It's probably showing the next / previous tabs and just flowing through all the assignments in that group.
Hi. I have activities for students such as word search puzzles that they do not submit. What category (Assignment, quiz, etc) would be best and any tips on how to structure it in the module?
Even though I have used Canvas for five years, watching your videos has made me a more sophisticated user of the tool. My question for today is this. I get your idea of creating a module and using pages to create a flow for the instruction. But when it comes time to ask students to complete an assignment, do I just switch from selecting new page to selecting new assignment? What happens to the "next" button at the bottom of the page?
Happy to help! I put the assignments at the end of the module. If it's within the module then the next button will keep leading the students through the entire module through pages (with content), discussions, quiz, assignments of any kind you create. That module is like a flow through capsule for the students. Anything you put in there should be easy for them to follow through until the end. Create an assignment then put it in the module in the place/order you want them to take it. I like to add a checklist at the end of each module so they can double check that they've completed all elements.
If you have a page that was inserted into a module and you would like to make that page an assignment, can you move it or somehow gt it to assignment without doing it over? thanks
great question Cynthia. You'll need to create an assignment and somewhat do it over since it's a different format than just a page. What will save you time is opening two windows of canvas in that class and copying and pasting the text/info that you've already created in the page and then pasting it into the assignment. That does save you some time at least!
Is it possible to upload a worksheet from google classroom and let them edit on the worksheets so they are filling it out in the blanks on the worksheet provided??
you could link to the google worksheet but they still need to go into google out of canvas to enter the info through google. Canvas is like google classroom but they are two diff platforms that really don't work together side by side but you can direct the students to the google ones through canvas if that's helpful.
You should be able to delete a youtube link but placing your cursor after the video box/link and then back spacing. You really can't highlight in Canvas but you can backspace to delete it.
They can upload a file if you set the assignment for that option on how they turn it in. You could also have them do it via a discussion post which gives them access to an RCE box and a little easier to upload photos, videos, etc.
Wait, how did you add the assignment to the module? Did you create a page then embed assignment you just made? How would you do that? Is it a stand-alone addition? Does it get added to the Calendar?
I've got a video of this coming up soon. Go to the module you want to add an assignment, or quiz, or discussion. Then click the far right + sign on the grey bar of the module. Then you can select anything you've already created in that course to add into modules. Hope this helps!
hi Ashlee, i've just got started on using canvas as a tutor. i was wondering if you could guide me on creating a page or assignment that is more like an Activity Log that i can have students put in the title of a task, describe the task, upload a photo and then self-evaluate their own work. i then want to be able to allow tutors to provide feedback to the students regarding their work. i was thinking do i need to create a template for them to be able to use and upload as a file or could i do it directly on canvas? if you have a video on this i apologise for not yet finding it. i would also like to be able to have each log for each student tracked and be able to be reviewed and not edited once tutor has given feedback... i think this will be a whole different area i need to look into 🤔
Happy to be on this journey with you! Tip: you can export and import blackboard course items into Canvas if that's helpful and might save some time. It doesn't translate exactly the same you do have to go back in and fix format, errors, etc but it might give you a foundation. Canvas has so many more elements, functions and options than blackboard so just take it one step at a time. Happy teaching!
Good day, Ashlee. I am very new to Canvas and teach 5th grade (multi-subject). What are your recommendations for multi-subject gradebooks as it relates to arranging modules and assignment groups?
This is a great question. I teach at the college level so I haven't had the experience of multi-subject gradebooks. But! Check out this video by Canvas Queen that might help ua-cam.com/video/643H1Eyqlzk/v-deo.html
When I go to speed grader, I don't get the menu with the tools for correcting. Are those only available with certain kinds of submissions? Which ones? If not, how can I activate it?
In my experience you should have access to all of the elements in speedgrader but with canvas updating and different versions now available to use (like the free version, etc) I'm not sure why you don't have access to the same tools. You might contact your admin and have them inquire with Canvas.
How to fix the dates on assignments? I keep getting “Locked until Star date”. I even go to “More Ootions@ and still get same reply? Thank you in advance!
Yes it was on assignment but EVEN after I selected "Text Box under Online entry Options, Canvas never gave me the option to create answer and even question boxes. Did I skip a step?
Forgive me, but I missed the reason why you preferred PDF uploads from students. I am working with middle school students, and want to know if your reason would help me, too. Thank you for this very helpful video!
Great question. A pdf doc is universal and the easiest way to make sure you as the teacher can view, make notes and grade their work. You might be using a tablet or PC or Dell computer but your student uses a MAC and uploads the file as a pages doc that you can't then open on your computer. It takes you time to send them a message asking them to re upload it in a pdf so that you can access it and it takes the student time to export the file to pdf and then re upload. So much easier on both ends to request all files are PDF so it is accessible to everyone and saves that back and forth time :) hope this helps!
@@nievescarter8579 I've personally never used a Chrome book myself but I have had students use it for class on Canvas and I've never had anyone respond with problems so far. You will want to tell them what program to use for writing docs if you have them do essays/paper/etc and then upload to PDF especailly if they are younger students. Do the chromebooks already have word or google docs installed? Otherwise as long as they can open a browser window and access the internet then they can access everything in Canvas.
I wish that was possible. That would be amazing! Unfortunately, you have go in and grade essays because there is not a way for the system to auto grade it. Have you tried out using discussions in Canvas yet?
Any questions about assignments? Let me know in the comments below! You got this educators!
I really like using journal entries as assignments right now. It offers the student a way to obtain a "grade" but also offers them an outlet to write free hand without worry of specifics. I have them write what they worked on that week and what progress they made or what challenges they discovered with their work.
I created text entry assignment for my students, but when I want to grade them using 'speed grader', ut says I need to create student group. Are there any ways I grade the students work on speed grader without me creating student group?
This was so incredibly helpful. I am not only new to teaching at my current level, I am going between online and in person classes. Your clear and concise instructional has been a life saver. Brava and thank you.
You got this! I know its a little overwhelming at first but you'll find a routine and it gets easier every week. Remember to be kind and patient with yourself. Keep it simple and effective and add as you go with the online and tech side. I've got a couple of playlist series for Canvas and one for online teaching if that's helpful. Sending you all the support and let me know if I can ever help!
Thank You Ashlee! You are clear and concise! You just made my life easier! Many Thanks! Nancy
You are so welcome! and thanks for the feedback and comment. Let me know if there are any specific topics or questions you need me to cover in a tutorial and I'll add it to my list. Happy teaching!
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thank You! I've shared your link with my Kern High School District colleagues and they are thrilled. We are moving to the Canvas platform this summer and next school year. I've already set up my Art classes for the fall with your help. I can't thank you enough! Nancy
You are a super awesome teacher/instructor. You made my assignment task on this topic done in a brisk. Thank you.
You're very welcome! And thank you so much for the kind support and feedback. I appreciate you.
Thank you so much for all of your wonderful and inspiring tutorials and tips for online teaching. I begin zoom teaching my university level Spanish courses next week and your expertise and energy have been invaluable!
You are so welcome! You are going to be wonderful and I'm sure your students will very much enjoy your Spanish courses. My father in law teaches Spanish at the university level as well!
Hi there, thank you so much for your tutorials! Can you please tell me how to post assignments over multiple classes or if you have a video on that? I am a middle school teacher and I have 3 of the same classes and don’t want to copy paste all the content.
Two years later, this was very well done!
Oh thank you! I filmed these on a whim to help fellow college professors navigate the last min transition to online teaching in 2020 and I’m so glad they are still helpful years later. Although I no longer provide content on my channel on that topic, I’ve kept all of the online teaching videos up because I’ve heard how helpful they still are to educators even now.
THANKS for doing this as we are scrambling to get teachers on board quickly!
You are so welcome! Anything we can do to help each other and support both teachers and students. Let me know if you need any specific tutorials. I try to post a new one each day to keep adding on the the steps.
Dear Ashlee,
At the 12:50 mark, you mention keeping the assignments within each module, but how exactly do you do that? Did I miss something?
Thank you for this video. Very helpful. Question for you how do you remove an assignment group? I have assigned assignment groups from how I arranged things from past classes that I no longer need. I would like to clean up the Assignment Group drop-down menu.
This is an amazing resource!! Do you have any suggestions or tips regarding Group Assignments? Thank you!
Let me add that to my list of videos to create!
I am loving your videos and learning a lot. My district made Canvas mandatory for all educators this year and I am coming from Google Classroom. I am loving it but it is requiring me a lot of time to configure a class. How did you get the Respondus Lockdown Browser in your Navigation tap? I am looking for it on mine and I can't find it. Thank you!
AWESOME! Thank you : ) Canvas had me stomped at first.
Glad I could help!
Thank you, Ashlee, for these videos. Our district tried to do something similar, but your experience has been so helpful!!
Quick question...I would like my screen to look like yours. I teach math. I'd like my students to see my paper/screen where I am working out the problems but also see my face in a smaller screen as I am explaining. How do I do that?
Glad it was helpful and thanks so much for the supportive feedback. I use Filmora9 for all of these videos and tutorials. It has a pic in pic function within the program. I'm going to a video tutorial about it this week if that might help too.
How do you add the Google Drive link when you're creating an assignment? Mine doesn't have that. Thank you for your videos. They are so helpful!
You should be able to copy and paste the link into the assignment page for the students to access.
This is a very useful video; I learned a lot! Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Thank you for this! I am developing proficiency with Canvas rapidly because we're 100% online right now. However, I'm having trouble with the difference between submissions from an external tool using Google Drive, URLs, and file uploads. I thought the external tool would be best because they can write in a template I make for them. The problem is that some students couldn't see my feedback on the PDF that it turned it into. Do you already have a video on this topic? I really wish I could see this from the student's perspective, and masquerading as "Test Student" doesn't work because it doesn't show me the Drive options. Right now I'm stuck asking kids to share their screen with me and squinting at the options.
Yes, this can be a little tricky indeed. I always suggest staying within Canvas versus using external tools like google docs, drive, etc. I use either the built in quiz option and edit it for the assignment I'm creating like just an essay and a few matching or true and false questions OR I use the text box option so they just type the assignment in the box OR I use the upload file option and make it required that it's a PDF so I can make notes on it in Canvas speedgrader. I know it feels limited but the less options they get the better actually. It really does simplify it for them and for you. It's much different than an inperson class I know. Hope this helps a little!
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thanks for the reply. I think you're right that too many options is overwhelming for students (and teachers!).
Most helpful, thank you!
You're welcome! I find assignments in Canvas so helpful when creating online content for the students and my the best part is that it makes it so much easier to grade on your end. Is this your first time teaching with Canvas?
Can they submit a pdf and a media file at the same time? What if I need them to upload both?
You can check both of those boxes when you set up the assignment upload format.
Hi Ashlee! How did you add the emoji symbols to your video to hide student info?? Thanks!
It's an element from the editing program I use 😊
Hi Ashlee- do you know if there is a way to “number” pages you’ve created in a specific order? For some reason it always keeps the most recent page created at the top... 🤔
Hi there! good question. Canvas orders the pages alphabetically but you might try starting the title of each page with a number and then it would order it in the way you set it up with that title. Other than that, I haven't found any other solutions for that challenge so far. Let me know if you discover anything though!
doing great job Ashlee!
thanks!
Thank you for your video! Do you know why when in student view the assignments have "next" or "previous" tabs? What can I do so they have to do something then go to the next piece? For example, first watch the video, hit next, now complete the assignment?
Create modules for this! When you create modules it gives you the next button and shows the students a flow that you've specifically set up for them that day or that week. It's probably showing the next / previous tabs and just flowing through all the assignments in that group.
Hi. I have activities for students such as word search puzzles that they do not submit. What category (Assignment, quiz, etc) would be best and any tips on how to structure it in the module?
I would call it an Assignment and use it an an .opener in the module
Do you know if there is a way to create an assignment in Canvas in which parts of a whole project could be combined across various courses?
I do not think that is possible but I would reach out to Canvas support and see if they can offer any advice on this.
Even though I have used Canvas for five years, watching your videos has made me a more sophisticated user of the tool. My question for today is this. I get your idea of creating a module and using pages to create a flow for the instruction. But when it comes time to ask students to complete an assignment, do I just switch from selecting new page to selecting new assignment? What happens to the "next" button at the bottom of the page?
Happy to help! I put the assignments at the end of the module. If it's within the module then the next button will keep leading the students through the entire module through pages (with content), discussions, quiz, assignments of any kind you create. That module is like a flow through capsule for the students. Anything you put in there should be easy for them to follow through until the end. Create an assignment then put it in the module in the place/order you want them to take it. I like to add a checklist at the end of each module so they can double check that they've completed all elements.
Brilliant! thank you very much!
you're so welcome!
If you have a page that was inserted into a module and you would like to make that page an assignment, can you move it or somehow gt it to assignment without doing it over? thanks
great question Cynthia. You'll need to create an assignment and somewhat do it over since it's a different format than just a page. What will save you time is opening two windows of canvas in that class and copying and pasting the text/info that you've already created in the page and then pasting it into the assignment. That does save you some time at least!
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thanks Ashlee!
Is it possible to upload a worksheet from google classroom and let them edit on the worksheets so they are filling it out in the blanks on the worksheet provided??
you could link to the google worksheet but they still need to go into google out of canvas to enter the info through google. Canvas is like google classroom but they are two diff platforms that really don't work together side by side but you can direct the students to the google ones through canvas if that's helpful.
Ashlee could you tell me how can I remove a link from youtube in assignments? Thank you VERY much for making all these very useful videos.
You should be able to delete a youtube link but placing your cursor after the video box/link and then back spacing. You really can't highlight in Canvas but you can backspace to delete it.
For a studio art class, how would a student turn in a jpeg image of their project in the assignments area?
They can upload a file if you set the assignment for that option on how they turn it in. You could also have them do it via a discussion post which gives them access to an RCE box and a little easier to upload photos, videos, etc.
What setting to I use to collect screen shots from students for an assignment? Thanks!
If they are uploading an image/file/doc then you would want to have it set at "submission" so they can upload a file on their end to the assignment.
Hi!
How do I move my assignments to my modules page?
check out this video on modules: ua-cam.com/video/yiJSmFb7Tlo/v-deo.html
Wait, how did you add the assignment to the module? Did you create a page then embed assignment you just made? How would you do that? Is it a stand-alone addition? Does it get added to the Calendar?
I've got a video of this coming up soon. Go to the module you want to add an assignment, or quiz, or discussion. Then click the far right + sign on the grey bar of the module. Then you can select anything you've already created in that course to add into modules. Hope this helps!
hi Ashlee, i've just got started on using canvas as a tutor. i was wondering if you could guide me on creating a page or assignment that is more like an Activity Log that i can have students put in the title of a task, describe the task, upload a photo and then self-evaluate their own work. i then want to be able to allow tutors to provide feedback to the students regarding their work. i was thinking do i need to create a template for them to be able to use and upload as a file or could i do it directly on canvas? if you have a video on this i apologise for not yet finding it.
i would also like to be able to have each log for each student tracked and be able to be reviewed and not edited once tutor has given feedback... i think this will be a whole different area i need to look into 🤔
New Canvas user. My institution switched in the middle of the the pandemic from Blackboard to Canvas.
Happy to be on this journey with you! Tip: you can export and import blackboard course items into Canvas if that's helpful and might save some time. It doesn't translate exactly the same you do have to go back in and fix format, errors, etc but it might give you a foundation. Canvas has so many more elements, functions and options than blackboard so just take it one step at a time. Happy teaching!
Good day, Ashlee. I am very new to Canvas and teach 5th grade (multi-subject). What are your recommendations for multi-subject gradebooks as it relates to arranging modules and assignment groups?
This is a great question. I teach at the college level so I haven't had the experience of multi-subject gradebooks. But! Check out this video by Canvas Queen that might help ua-cam.com/video/643H1Eyqlzk/v-deo.html
do you have a video about Moderating Grades?
Great video!
thanks so much
When I go to speed grader, I don't get the menu with the tools for correcting. Are those only available with certain kinds of submissions? Which ones? If not, how can I activate it?
In my experience you should have access to all of the elements in speedgrader but with canvas updating and different versions now available to use (like the free version, etc) I'm not sure why you don't have access to the same tools. You might contact your admin and have them inquire with Canvas.
How to fix the dates on assignments? I keep getting “Locked until Star date”. I even go to “More Ootions@ and still get same reply? Thank you in advance!
Yes it was on assignment but EVEN after I selected "Text Box under Online entry Options, Canvas never gave me the option to create answer and even question boxes. Did I skip a step?
I think you are wanting to create a quiz here. Go into the quiz tab not the assignments tab. THen you can create questions for them to answer!
Thank you sooooo much
Welcome 😊
Forgive me, but I missed the reason why you preferred PDF uploads from students. I am working with middle school students, and want to know if your reason would help me, too.
Thank you for this very helpful video!
Great question. A pdf doc is universal and the easiest way to make sure you as the teacher can view, make notes and grade their work. You might be using a tablet or PC or Dell computer but your student uses a MAC and uploads the file as a pages doc that you can't then open on your computer. It takes you time to send them a message asking them to re upload it in a pdf so that you can access it and it takes the student time to export the file to pdf and then re upload. So much easier on both ends to request all files are PDF so it is accessible to everyone and saves that back and forth time :) hope this helps!
@@VirtualTeachingPro My students will have Chrome books only. How is that going to affect how they receive and send assignments?
@@nievescarter8579 I've personally never used a Chrome book myself but I have had students use it for class on Canvas and I've never had anyone respond with problems so far. You will want to tell them what program to use for writing docs if you have them do essays/paper/etc and then upload to PDF especailly if they are younger students. Do the chromebooks already have word or google docs installed? Otherwise as long as they can open a browser window and access the internet then they can access everything in Canvas.
@@VirtualTeachingPro Hi Ashlee,
Thank you for reply
Is there a chance to automatically grade an essay assignment?
I wish that was possible. That would be amazing! Unfortunately, you have go in and grade essays because there is not a way for the system to auto grade it. Have you tried out using discussions in Canvas yet?
I know someone who can help you
how to upload a PDF file as assignment as opposed to text input?
when i did the quizzes thing it still has the eye with the line
It goes too fast.
You can adjust the speed of the video in your settings right within UA-cam.
I am not even a teacher lol
well, I hope you found it entertaining. Thanks for stopping by!
Way too wordy on the nontechnical instructions, less of that and more if Canvas technical content😊
Well hope it still helped
You talk too fast!!
Thanks for your feedback. I'll keep that in mind for upcoming videos.