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Submitting Audio / Video Feedback to a Student
Updated onArticleYou can leave feedback to students as part of the grading process for assignments. In addition to written comments, you can also provide both audio and video feedback.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Assessments, Feedback and Grades Providing Feedback & Grades
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Changing Grading Schemes / Grade Letter Ranges
Updated onArticleWithin Canvas, there is a default grading scheme set by Canvas. If your course has its own grading scheme, you can modify this grading scheme easily. This article provides the directions on how to create a grading scheme and how to embed this grading scheme into your course.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Assessments, Feedback and Grades Providing Feedback & Grades
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Grading Assignments Using the SpeedGrader
Updated onArticleThe SpeedGrader is a grading tool where instructors can leave in-line comments, grades, and feedback for student work all on one screen. SpeedGrader can be used with assignments, graded discussions, and quizzes. Some file types can be marked up for feedback directly within the submission. Instructors can also provide feedback to students with text, file attachments, or media comments.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Assessments, Feedback and Grades Providing Feedback & Grades
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Accessing the SpeedGrader from the Gradebook
Updated onArticleWhile you may normally open the SpeedGrader from Assignments, you are also capable of accessing the SpeedGrader from the Gradebook. In the Gradebook, you can only open the SpeedGrader from an individual student’s grade detail tray.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Assessments, Feedback and Grades Providing Feedback & Grades
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Gradebook (Vendor Guides)
Updated onArticleBelow are the vendor guides for the Gradebook.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Assessments, Feedback and Grades Providing Feedback & Grades
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SpeedGrader (Vendor Guides)
Updated onArticleBelow are the vendor guides for the SpeedGrader.
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Creating Manually Created Course Sections
Updated onArticleInstructors can create custom, manually created course sections within their Canvas course site. These manually created course sections can be useful if you need to separate users into custom groups (like having one group for each TA in your course). Having custom course sections can allow instructors and TAs to post targeted content in Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes, and the Inbox tool.
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Restricting Teaching Fellow’s Access to Specific Sections
Updated onArticleIn Canvas @ Yale, you can restrict your Teaching Fellow’s access to be only to their specific section within the course. By restricting access to only their section, the Teaching Fellow will not be able to see or grade students in other sections of your course.
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Activating the Attendance Tool
Updated onArticleThe Roll Call / Attendance tool allows you to take attendance in your Canvas course. To use the attendance tool, you will first need to activate it within your Canvas course.
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Accessing Group Sites
Updated onArticleOnce you create Group Sets and Groups, each Group has its own group site that allows students within the group to collaborate with each other. The purpose of this document is to show instructors and teaching fellows how they can access the Group Homepage.
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