Learn How To Grade In Canvas | SpeedGrader Tutorial for Canvas LMS

[@firsttimeever594]

I am a new TA (Teaching Assistant) using Canvas for the first time. I can't thank you enough, you made everything / every feature understandable. Thanks a ton.

[@AngieTeaches]

You made my day! I’m so glad this was helpful. And enjoy being a TA. I was a TA in college-it was a great student job.

[@FeliciaSlattery-z3c]

I'm new to Canvas this year, returning to teach in the college classroom after 15 years, when none of these tools were available. Your tutorial was the best I've watched so far on using the comments and other grading features. Thank you so much for taking your time to put this together!

[@AngieTeaches]

You made my day! Thanks for taking the time to comment. So much has changed over the last 15 years. Luckily, there are lots of tutorials for all those tools.

[@mannyperez28]

So this is how proffesors grade our assignments on canvas how cool that’s good to know

[@AfrYToT]

I enjoyed every bit of your lecture. Thanks.

[@AngieTeaches]

Glad to hear that!

[@krohndesign]

So helpful- thank you for this!!

[@AngieTeaches]

Glad it was helpful!

[@laurac.9003]

Excellent! Thank you!

[@AngieTeaches]

I’m glad it was helpful!

[@manLiMarth]

Wonderful video by a very talented teacher - thank you. I wonder, are annotations visible to students *before* they are published? I want to be able to annotate essays/assignments with feedback and only publish grades all at once. And I don't want students to see the markings I am making during that time! (I have set the Grade Posting Policy to "Manual" so presumably the grades are still hidden until I release them.)

[@AngieTeaches]

Great question! I tried it out with my Test Student, just to be sure, and neither the annotations, grade, or comment show to the student until grades are published using the Manual Posting Policy. I'm so glad you enjoyed the video!

[@manLiMarth]

@@AngieTeaches great! That’s what I found, too, but I had read online about some people having trouble with this. Maybe the bug has been fixed so long as you use the correct Grade Posting Policy. Thanks again!

[@lynnmackenzie5442]

Helpful info I am passing on to some faculty!

[@AngieTeaches]

That’s great. Thanks for passing this on 😉

[@JulieHinders]

This is great info. Thank you. I am new to Canvas after years of using D2L. In D2L, you could type one comment that would go to the grade book for ALL students to view. I used it often with weekly discussions. I would choose "grade all" and type a comment on key takeaways for the weekly discussion. This was a huge timesaver. I would then just add comments individually based on their submitted work. In Canvas, I cannot figure out how to post one comment to ALL students and end up having to copy/paste the comment 30+ times. Where is this feature in Canvas?

[@AngieTeaches]

I wish Canvas could do this!!! There is a way that you can save and reuse comments, but it's not great. When you're grading, you'll see a speech bubble above the comment box. Click on it and it brings you to a place where you can save and re-use comments. I'm not a fan. My work-around has been sending out an announcement with general comments to the class when I've finished grading. You could also send something to the class through the Inbox.

[@TaufiqulHuque]

Thanks for the presentation. When I am grading student assignments, I often need to make comments, and these have to be written in the margins or inserted between lines of text. Obviously, it would be convenient if the font size of what I am writing is small (font size 9 or 10 would be best). But I find that even when I click on the smallest font size in the tool bar at the top, the text size is still about 12 or 13. How can I make the font size smaller?

[@AngieTeaches]

The font options are definitely limited in Speed Grader, both with in-line comments and pinned comments. Another option would be to download the student's work as a PDF and use your PDF reader's annotation tools. It would take a few additional steps, but may be worth it!

[@siefele]

Is there a way to access a comment bank if there is a comment I want to use over and over?

[@AngieTeaches]

Great Question! There is a Comment Library. It's part of SpeedGrader. I made you a quick video to show you how to access it: app.screencastify.com/v3/watch/c57c4ZpmcbVUpm0g95V9