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Checking a Canvas Activity in Student View without Releasing It to Students
Updated onArticleWhen you are creating your Canvas activities you may want to verify that the activity is working as expected before you release it to your students. This can cause an issue as you will need to Publish your activity for the "Student View" function to work properly, thus releasing it for your students to potentially view / access.
The steps outlined below will walk you through the four-part process of checking your Canvas activity (assignments, quizzes, and discussions) in "Student View" without letting your actual students access the activity.
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Creating a Media Recording Assignment
Updated onArticleCanvas Assignments has several different submission types. One of those submission types is a media recording, which allows students to record and upload video / audio submissions.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Assessments, Feedback and Grades Assignments
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Duplicating an Assignment
Updated onArticleCanvas allows you to duplicate an assignment. This may be useful for quickly creating assignments with the same settings such as weekly assignments.
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Due Dates versus Display Dates
Updated onArticleYou can set both due dates and display dates for various assignments and activities. This article describes the differences between the two features.
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Creating an Ungraded, No-Submission Assignment (Reading Assignment)
Updated onArticleInstructors can use Assignments to create ungraded, no submission assignment for their students. Typically, this type of assignment is used to assign readings to students that have due dates. These types of assignments will be listed in the Course Summary section of the Syllabus tool but will not be listed in the Canvas Grades area.
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Creating an Assignment
Updated onArticleInstructors can use Assignments to create and track graded and ungraded assignments, including online and offline submission, no submission, discussions, and quizzes.
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Creating Weighted Assignments Groups
Updated onArticleAssignment groups allow you to categorize assignments in a way that makes sense for your course. The benefit to this could be for organizing assignments, weighting final grades, and much more. Using weighted groups allows you to weigh an assignment group for a specified percent of the final grade.
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Rubrics (Vendor Guides)
Updated onArticleBelow are the vendor guides for Rubrics.
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Quizzes (Vendor Guides)
Updated onArticleBelow are the vendor guides for "Classic" Quizzes.
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Discussions (Vendor Guides)
Updated onArticleBelow are the vendor guides for Discussions.
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