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Are you ready to level up your Canvas experience? In this video, you’ll learn how to create Kami assignments in Canvas and easily share them with your students.

Hello, everyone, my name is Katrina, one of your Teacher Success Champions at Kami. I’m a former high school chemistry teacher and tech coach. Speaking of chemistry, Kami and I go way back, it was one of the first EdTech tools to successfully elevate my instructional game, especially when it was paired with my LMS. That’s why in today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use Kami with Canvas. 

Just a heads up your Canvas administrator may have already installed the Kami app for you. If not, you can install Kami in the Canvas environment by going to your course settings. Once you’re in settings, click the Apps tab. Search for Kami. Click Add App. Then enter your consumer key and shared secret. This information can be found in your Kami settings.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get into Canvas. A Kami assignment in Canvas all starts by clicking on the Assignment button in one of your classes. Next, give your assignment a name and leave instructions before scrolling down to the submission type. Choose External Tool and then click on the Find button. Look for Kami Assignment in the list of external tools and click the link to complete this step. Here you choose a file from either your Google Drive or your OneDrive. Once you’ve selected a file, you can modify your assignment settings. First, let’s dive into Assessment Mode. This is one of the newest features in Kami’s integration and ultimately gives teachers more control over the students’ assignments. And it doesn’t stop there. Just like peanut butter and jelly, Due Date and Assessment Mode are better together. With a Due Date setting you can set a specific time and date in which all assignments will automatically be submitted back to you for grading. Our next setting is a fantastic solution to an issue all of us face: It’s impossible to give students feedback on the work they don’t turn in, right? When you enable Real-time Monitoring on your Kami assignment, you can see all incomplete as well as complete submissions in the Canvas Speed-grader. This allows you to use all the Kami tools to give feedback to all of your learners, even those who forgot or aren’t ready to submit. The last setting is hands down my favorite. It allows every teacher to control the features available to students on every assignment. If you’re assigning a social studies assignment and don’t need the equation tool, you can remove it. If you’re reading a passage and don’t need the signature tool remove that too. By narrowing down the features available for your students, you’re helping them stay focused on the lesson at hand. Once you customize the features for this assignment, you can check the additional box to remember your options for next time. This is a huge time saver for teachers who are often checking and unchecking the same boxes under Control Features. At this point, click proceed and select. Right below the External Tool URL is another important checkbox. Click Load this tool in a new tab for all Kami assignments so that students have the full screen to work in Kami. Instead of loading it inside of the Canvas frame. Our assignment is ready to save and publish. Now you can monitor their progress in real-time and leave feedback during an after the work is completed. Let’s take a look at the students’ view. The timer shows the countdown to the due date we selected earlier. Assessment Mode also removed the Share button for each student and gave the teachers sole access to file submissions until they’re ready to return after feedback and grading. This means that you can grade and give feedback – but withhold the release back to students until they’ve completed the assignment. Once they’re finished, students click the submit button and they’re all done. It’s as simple as that. Now go forth and level up those assignments with Kami and Canvas. Bye now!

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How to Use Kami with Google Classroom

Kami is a PDF and document annotating tool that is a must for any digital classroom. And now, with the pandemic, almost all the classes are digital as we have adapted to this new normal.

Although Kami is useful for anyone who needs a simple yet effective tool for annotating documents, its best usage has to be for a classroom. Using Kami, you can share annotated PDFs with notes/ insights you want your students to see. But the best thing is, you can even share virtual worksheets with your students that they can directly write upon and submit to you to grade. And its integration with Google Classroom makes it infinitely better and that much easier to use in the class.

Important Note: To use the Google Classroom extension in Kami, you need a Pro account with a Teacher or School & District plan. Kami’s Google Classroom integration is not available with the free or even the ‘Pro’ & ‘Work’ Plans for Individuals for logical reasons.

Using Google Classroom with Kami

Now you can either use Google Classroom from Kami’s web app, or you can have a direct integration of Kami in Google Classroom that adds buttons to create an assignment with Kami for teachers and submit a Kami assignment for students right into the Google Classroom’s interface.

Teachers can then grade the assignments students have submitted from within the Google Classroom. It means that everything will happen from within Google Classroom itself, and you won’t even need to open another website.

Getting Kami in Google Classroom

For classes that are already using Google Classroom, this option is the more convenient choice as students and teachers are already comfortable with the interface.

Note: The integration of Google Classroom in Kami allows teachers to create a Google Classroom assignment from Kami, but the rest of the usage like tracking students’ progress, grading assignments, etc. has to be done from Google Classroom only. Also, students cannot see any worksheets you’ve assigned from Kami; it’s only available in Google Classroom.

To use Kami in Google Classroom, you need to install the Kami Chrome extension. The extension should be installed on the teachers as well as all the students’ systems for everyone to able to use it. For schools, admins can deploy the extension to all student accounts from the Google Admin panel to ensure that all students have it.

Go to the Chrome Web Store and search for ‘Kami’ to add the extension to your browser. You can also click the button down below to quickly go to the download page.

Click on the ‘Add to Chrome’ button to install the extension on your browser.

A confirmation dialog box will appear. Click on ‘Add Extension’ and Kami would appear on your address bar with the rest of your extensions.

Once you install the extension, the Kami integration would automatically appear on your Google Classroom account.

Using Kami In Google Classroom (As a Teacher)

Teachers can use Kami to create assignments or worksheets for students that students can annotate. You can even annotate the assignments yourself with any special instructions before you share it with them. The Google Classroom and Kami integration also allows you to grade the assignments as you would real pen-and-paper assignments: you can mark the assignments, and add comments!

Creating an Assignment

To assign worksheets or assignments using Kami in Google Classroom, log in to your Google Classroom account, and open the class you want to create the assignment for. Then, go to the ‘Classwork’ tab.

Click on the ‘Create’ button and select ‘Kami Assignment’ from the menu.

The window to create the assignment will open. Select the assignment file from either Google Drive or your computer.

Give the assignment a title and add instructions for students (optional). Then, select the class and students the assignment is for. You can also specify marks, due date, etc. like you can with any other Google Classroom assignment.

Now, if this is a worksheet that every student needs to work separately on, make sure that you select the option ‘Make a copy for each student’.

If it’s something you want all the students to collaborate on, then select the option ‘Students share one file’.

If it’s the first time the students will be using Kami, check the ‘Send Instructions with Kami’ option. Students will receive detailed instructions on how to complete the assignment with Kami.

You can also restrict the Kami tools that students can have access to for that particular assignment if you want them to have access to only required and limited tools. Click on the ‘Restrict Features’ button on the assignment window.

A list of all Kami features will appear. Uncheck the ones you want to restrict access to and click ‘Ok’. Your students won’t be able to use those tools for this assignment.

Finally, click the ‘Assign’ button.

If you haven’t authorized Kami access to your Google Drive before now, it will ask for permission to access it. Click on ‘Authorize Google Drive’.

The assignment will be created, and the students will be able to see it in their Google Classroom Stream and Classwork automatically. You can also share the link to the assignment separately if you want.

Tracking Progress and Grading the Assignments

Once you’ve given the assignment, you can track the status of students’ work from Google Classroom as well. You can see how many students have turned in the assignment. And once they have turned it in, you can also grade the assignments. You can also open the assignments before the students have turned them in to see if they need any help and provide any in form of comments.

To track the assignment progress, open it in Google Classroom and go to the ‘Student Work’ tab.

Here, you’ll be able to see all the statistics related to the assignment, like how many students have to complete the assignment in total and how many have turned it in under ‘All Students’.

Individual copies of each student’s assignment will appear, and you’ll be able to see the status of the assignment, i.e., whether or not they have turned it in. Click on the assignment to open it.

You can see the student’s annotations and comments on the assignment. If you only want to grade it with final marks, just enter the marks on the right side and click the ‘Return’ button.

You can also enter any comments from the Google Classroom viewer itself. But if you want to annotate the assignment like mark the wrong or right answers, click the box next to ‘Grade with Kami’ to select it.

Kami’s editor will open right in Google Classroom. Annotate the assignment however you want. Then, enter the final grade on the right and click the ‘Return’ button.

A confirmation dialog box will appear. Click on the ‘Return’ option on the dialog box.

The student will be able to see their grade on the returned assignment, as well as any annotations or comments you must’ve made.

Using Kami in Google Classroom (As a Student)

Students can use Kami with Google Classroom to annotate on their worksheets or assignments and submit them after completion. Go to Google Classroom and click on the class you want to view the assignments for.

You can see an announcement post for a new assignment on your Stream. But if there are too many posts, click on the ‘Classwork’ tab.

Then, click on the assignment you want to complete.

Open the file in the assignment. In the preview mode, you’ll see the ‘Open with Kami’ button. Click on it.

The assignment will open in the Kami’s web viewer. You can use all the tools your teacher has allowed for the assignment from the toolbar on the left. Once the assignment is complete, click the ‘Turn In’ button on the toolbar on the upper right corner of the screen.

Note: When you’re still working on the assignment, Kami saves all the changes automatically. So your work won’t be lost even if you close the window. You only have to click the Turn in button once the assignment is complete.

After clicking the Turn in button, if it is your first assignment, Kami would request access to Google Drive. Click the ‘Authorize Google Drive’ button and sign in with your Google account. Then, give Kami access to your account by clicking the ‘Allow’ button.

Your assignment is now submitted and the teacher can grade it and return it you.

You can also unsubmit the assignment if you need to make some changes after turning it in. To unsubmit the assignment, click anywhere on the assignment in Kami’s web viewer. A dialog box will appear stating that to edit the assignment, you need to unsubmit it. Click the ‘Unsubmit’ button.

Once the teacher has graded your assignment, you’ll be able to see your final grade from Google Classroom. Click on ‘View your work’ in the Classwork tab.

All assignments will open. The returned assignment will have your grade next to it. You can also open the assignment to see any more annotations from the teacher.

Kami is a great tool for teaching. And with schools already using a Learning Management System like Google Classroom, the integration of both makes remote teaching as easy. It feels almost as if you were present in the classroom and handing out assignments in person.

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There are two ways to create Kami Assignments:

A.  Share the Kami Assignment Link in Canvas

B.  Use the Kami Canvas External Tool

• Assessment Mode
• Assignment Mode

This article describes the process of sharing the Kami Assignment Link in Canvas.

Watch the video below:

https://youtu.be/h_XNQ0Ug1m0?si=8XkqXhQ_ZDBjqI4_

1.  Create an assignment. 

Creating an assignment in this manner will enable you to utilize all the features available in Canvas for the assignment, such as tracking missing submissions and automatically applying missing zero grades, among others. Students will be expected to complete and submit the assignment through their Kami app.  

3.  Set Sharing Permission.

Set sharing permissions to “Anyone with the Link” and “Create Individual Copy.” Kami will give you access to each student’s downloaded document in your Google drive.  Then, click on Control Features.   

4.  Under Control Features, select the tools you wish to grant students access for the assignment.

5.  Copy the QR Code or Link.

After configuring your preferences, copy the unique link or QR code and paste it into the Canvas assignment description field. When students click on the Kami link, they will be taken directly to their own copy of the assignment.  

6.  Paste QR Code and/or Link. 

Copy the unique link or QR code and paste it into the Canvas assignment description field. When students click on the Kami link, they will be taken directly to their own copy of the assignment.  

7.  Set Submission Type.

Set submission type to “Website URL” for the students to share the link to their Kami assignment.

Once you get their Kami Sharing Link, use it to open their file in the Kami App. Doing this gives you the ability to monitor their progress whenever you want and grade their work using the Kami Tools after they finish working on their assignment. Don't forget to hit the Save button to ensure that any changes you made are saved to the file.

**STUDENTS WILL NEED TO SET UP SHARING WITH EDITOR PERMISSIONS PRIOR TO SUBMITTING THEIR WORK FOR TEACHERS TO HAVE EDITOR ACCESS TO FEEDBACK AND GRADING.**

Students: How to do assignments with Kami using sharing links 

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For students unfamiliar with library resources, a librarian can help them with:

• An orientation to the library
• Orientations to discipline-specific library resources
• Locating and requesting sources

For students struggling to get started on their research assignment, a librarian can help them with:

• Developing, narrowing, or broadening their research topic
• Developing a search strategy (e.g., keywords for searching)
• Selecting appropriate databases for their research topic
• Identifying primary and secondary sources as well as peer-reviewed sources

For students in a research intensive or capstone class needing help organizing their sources, a librarian can help them:

• Tracking down citations
• Citation management software like Endnote or Zotero
• Cite sources – The Center for Writing Excellence (CWE) can also help here

How the library will provide support:

• Library 101 (library resources orientation)
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• One-on-one (or small groups for group projects)
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Video Walkthrough

You will work on the assignments for CS107 on the myth machines, which you access remotely. You'll initially make a copy of the starter project to modify, use command-line tools to edit and debug your code, and use some 107-specific tools like Sanity Check and Submit to test and submit your work. See below for the common steps you'll use to work on assignments.

Logging Into Myth

You will work on your programs in CS107 remotely on the myth machines, which are pre-installed with all the necessary development tools. Check out the getting started guide for how to log in remotely.

Starting An Assignment

For each assignment, you will first "clone" a copy of the assignment starter files into your own directory so you will be able to modify files. Some assignments will have randomized or user-specific data, and each student will have their own copy of the assignment to copy. The assignments are managed using a "version control system" called git ; we will not be focusing on git in CS107, but you can feel free to look into how git works if you're interested.

Note: Do not put any CS107 assignments online publicly on GitHub or any other publicly available website . This is a violation of the Stanford Honor Code.

To clone a copy of the assignment, first navigate to the directory where you would like to store the copy of the assignment. You may wish to create a CS107 folder, for instance, in your personal AFS space, using the mkdir command. Then, use the git clone command as follows:

This will make a folder named assign0 that you can then go into to start working on the assignment. You should type the above commands exactly as shown, including the odd-looking $USER at the end, but replacing assign0 with assign1 , assign2 , etc., depending on the assignment you are cloning. Now you can start working on the assignment!

Working On The Assignment

You'll use a variety of tools to work on the assignment, such as gdb (debugger) and make (compiling), that we'll introduce this quarter.

Using Sanity Check For Testing

As part of each assignment, we provide a testing program called "sanity check" that ensures you have worked on certain required files, and compares the output of your program to that of the provided sample executable and reports on discrepancies, allowing you to detect and address any issues before you submit. It also allows you to add your own custom tests.

To run the sanity check tool for a given assignment with our provided tests, first navigate to the directory containing the assignment you would like to test. Then, execute the tools/sanitycheck command as follows:

In the output, if a test fails, it will indicate either "MISMATCH" or "NOT OK". MISMATCH indicates that your program successfully ran to completion but the output it produced did not match the output produced by the sample. NOT OK reports that your program did not successfully complete (exited due to a fatal error or timed out) and its output was not compared to the sample.

• Passing sanity check suggests the autotester won't have problems interpreting your output, and that's good. If it doesn't match, you should fix your output to meet the required format so that your output is not misjudged in grading. To earn proper credit, your program must conform to the output specification given in the assignment writeup and match the behavior of our sample executable. Minor variations like different amounts of whitespace can usually be ignored, but changing the format, reordering output, or leaving behind extraneous print debugging statements will thwart the autotester and cause your program to be marked wrong. If sanitycheck fails when you run it on the final version you submit, you will lose points when we re-run that test when we grade the assignment. Just because sanitycheck passes does not mean that your assignment is correct, but failing a test means that it is not correct.
• There are a few situations, such as allowed latitude in the spec or equivalent re-wording of error messages, where a mismatch is not actually an error--- i.e. the program's behavior is a valid alternative to the sample, but sanity check doesn't know that. The autotester defers these cases to the judgment of the grading CA to identify whether such mismatches are true failures or harmless variation.
• You can run sanity check as many times as you need. Our submit tool will even encourage one final run before you submit.
• An additional benefit of running sanitycheck early and often is that it makes a snapshot of your code as a safety precaution. This backup replaces the original starter code generated for you, so you can re-clone the assignment using the same git clone command and get the last code you backed up.

Using Sanity Check With Your Own Custom Tests

The default tests supplied for sanity check may not be particularly rigorous nor comprehensive, so you will want to supplement with additional tests. You can create inputs of your own and write them into custom tests to be used by the sanitycheck tool. Create a text file using this format:

To run your custom tests, invoke sanitycheck with its optional argument, which is the name of the custom test file

When invoked with an argument, sanity check will use the test cases from the named file instead of the standard ones. For each custom test listed in the file, sanity check runs the sample solution with the given command-line arguments and captures its output, then runs your program with the same arguments to capture its output, and finally compares the two results and reports any mismatches.

Submitting An Assignment

Once you've finished working on an assignment, it's time to submit! The tools/submit command lets you submit your work right from myth . The submit tool verifies your project's readiness for submission. It will make the project to ensure there is no build failure and will offer you the option to run sanity check. If any part of verification fails, the submission is rejected and you must fix the issues and try submit again. Here's an example of using this command.

• If verification passes and submissions are being accepted, the project is submitted and a confirmation message indicates success. If the deadline has passed and grace period expired, the submission is rejected.
• To submit an updated version, just repeat the same steps. Only your most recent submission is graded.
• submitting performs the same backup process as sanity check.
• If you run into a submit failure that you cannot resolve, please seek help from the course staff. We recommend that you make a test submit well in advance of the deadline to confirm things will roll smoothly when the time comes.

Submission deadlines are firm. Cutting it too close runs the risk of landing on the wrong side -- don't let this happen to you! Submit early to give yourself a safety cushion and avoid the last-minute stress.

Assignment Tips

Be cautious with C: C is designed for high efficiency and unrestricted programmer control, with no emphasis on safety and little support for high-level abstractions. A C compiler won't complain about such things as uninitialized variables, narrowing conversions, or functions that fail to return a needed value. C has no runtime error support, which means no helpful messages when your code accesses an array out of bounds or dereferences an invalid pointer; such errors compile and execute with surprising results. Keep an eye out for problems that you may have previously depended on the language to detect for you.

Memory and pointers: Bugs related to memory and/or pointers can be tricky to resolve. Make sure you understand every part of your code that you write or change. Also keep in mind that the observable effects of a memory error can come at a place and time far removed from the root cause (i.e. running off the end of a array may "work fine" until you later read the contents of a supposedly unrelated variable). gdb and Valgrind can be extremely helpful in resolving these kinds of bugs. In particular, Valgrind is useful throughout the programming process, not just at the end. Valgrind reports on two types of memory issues: errors and leaks. Memory errors are toxic and should be found and fixed without delay. Memory leaks are of less concern and can be ignored early in development. Given that the wrong deallocation can wreak havoc, we recommend you write the initial code with all free() calls commented out. Much later, after having finished with the correct functionality and turning your attention to polishing, add in the free calls one at a time, run under Valgrind, and iterate until you verify complete and proper deallocation.

Use good style from the start : Always start with good decomposition, rather than adding it later. Sketch each function's role and have a rough idea of its inputs and outputs. A function should be designed to complete one well-defined task. If you can't describe the function's role in a sentence or two then maybe your function is doing too much and should be decomposed further. Commenting the function before you write the code may help you clarify your design (what the function does, what inputs it takes, and what outputs it produces, how it will be used). Start by using good variable names, rather than going through and changing them later. Using good style the first time makes your code better designed, easier to understand, and easier to debug.

Understand your code : At every step, you want to ensure that you understand the code you are writing, what it does, and how it works. Don't make changes without understanding why you are making them, and what the result will be.

Test : use our recommended testing techniques to incrementally develop your program, test at each step, and always have a working program.

Get help if you need it! : 107 has a lot of helpful resources, including written materials on the web site, textbook readings, lectures, labs, the online discussion forum, helper hours, and more. We are happy to help or answer your questions!

Frequently Asked Questions

How can i reproduce/debug a problem that appears during sanity check.

Look through the sanity check output to find the command being executed:

Run that same command (in shell, gdb, or Valgrind) to replicate the situation being tested. You can also view the file contents (such as the hymn file in the above command) to better understand what is being tested.

Is it possible to write a custom test to verify Valgrind correctness or memory/time efficiency?

Unfortunately not; custom sanity check tests compare on output only. You will need to supplement with other forms of testing to verify those additional requirements.

Can I submit a program that doesn't pass sanity check?

We strongly recommend that you resolve any sanity check failures before submitting, but the submit tool will not force you to do so. To submit a project doesn't pass sanity check, respond no when asked if you want to run sanity check, and the project will be submitted without that check.

How can I verify that my submission was successful?

Your gradebook page (accessible from the navigation bar at the top) lists the timestamp of the most recent submission we have received.

Although it is not necessary, if you would like to triple-check, you can view the contents of your submission by re-cloning your class repo. For example, navigate to your home directory and git clone /afs/ir/class/cs107/repos/assignN/$USER mysubmission . This will create a mysubmission directory that contains the files you submitted for assignN (be sure to replace N with the assignment number). If you're satisfied that everything is as intended in mysubmission , then you're done and you can delete the mysubmission directory. If not, figure out what's not right, fix it, and submit again.

Learn how to create a Kami Assignment using Kami's Google Classroom integration

Creating Kami Assignments is as easy as clicking a button, but before you can start make sure you have the Kami Chrome extension .

Once the extension is installed, you can create a Kami Assignment directly inside your Google Classroom.

How to create a Kami Assignment in Google Classroom

1. open the kami assignment window.

Go into the Classwork tab in one of your courses, then click the +Create button. You should see the Kami Assignment option if the Kami Chrome extension was installed correctly.

✏️ You can also create a Kami Assignment from your Kami dashboard by clicking the Google Classroom Assignment button.

2. Set up your Kami Assignment

You should now see a Kami assignment window. You can set the title, add text instructions, and attach a file using Google Drive or a local file. You can even pick a Kami Library template to assign.

At the bottom right of this pop-up, we've added some features to help students and to allow the teacher more customization when creating a Kami Assignment:

Send Kami Instructions to Students

This attaches a Kami help article to the Kami assignment with instructions for setting up Kami and using the integration to help students get started with their Kami Assignments.

Add Links for Mobile Devices

Attach an extra link to the Kami Assignment that functions as an Open with Kami button. This option is designed for users working from iPads or similar touch devices where the Kami Chrome extension cannot be installed.

Control Features

This lets you select which of the Kami tools you'd like to be available for your students, particularly for that Kami Assignment. You can learn more about Control Features.

Share type for the files in the Kami Assignment can be set to:

Make a copy for each student is the default and recommended for a regular flow of Kami Assignments.

Students share one copy means all students will work on the same file.

Students cannot edit file means they cannot edit the file and they view the same file as others in that class.

3. Assign your Kami Assignment

Once you've set up the Kami Assignment, click the Assign button to distribute it to your class. Otherwise, you can click the dropdown arrow beside the Assign button to save the Kami Assignment as a draft or schedule it for later.

After assigning, you should see a new window confirming the Kami Assignment has been created.

And... you're all done! Your students should now have access and can start working on their Kami Assignments using the Kami Google Classroom integration.

If you need further assistance, don't hesitate to get in touch with us at [email protected] or book some training with one of our Teacher Success Champions here: https://www.kamiapp.com/training