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Getting Started with Canvas Assignments

• Last modification date Updated On June 8, 2023
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Canvas  Assignments  are a way for instructors to provide students opportunities to practice using the knowledge and skills they have gained or to assess student performance related to such knowledge and skills. (Creating an Assignment is the  only  way to create a new column in the Gradebook.)

In Canvas there are four basic  Submission Types  for assignments. The submission types include:

• No Submission : For assignments for which you are not collecting any content from the students.
• Text Entry : For students to enter text directly into a text box on Canvas.
• Website URL : For students to enter a URL (usually to a blog, video, podcast, etc.).
• Media Recordings : For students to upload or record media for submission.
• File Uploads : For students to upload files for submission ( Restrict Upload File Types  will allow you to limit which types of files may be submitted).
• On Paper : For assignments students will submit in person.
• External Tool : For assignments which students will submit through a third-party tool (such as Turnitin, Panopto Video Quiz, and PlayPosit).

Managing an Assignment

Managing assignment groups.

When getting started with Assignments, learn to

• Create an assignment shell with the Canvas guide  How do I create an assignment? 

If you select  Peer Reviews Appear Anonymously , annotation tools in  SpeedGrader  will become unavailable.

If you change the  Assign To  area from  Everyone  to select students after submissions have already begun, and do not have a second set of Assign To dates, submissions from unassigned students will disappear.

• Published assignments are visible as existing outside of availability dates, but students cannot see the details.
• If looking to update the due and/or availability dates on multiple assignments, see   How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates as an instructor?
• If choosing the option to make an assignment a  Group Assignment : If only assigning to specific groups, make sure to click the  X  on the  Everyone Else  choice under  Assign to .

Media Recording  Assignments are not recommended due to technical reasons. Instead, have students submit media by embedding it in a  Text Entry  assignment through Panopto .

Clearly express expectations and criteria for grading by using a  Rubric .

Be cautious limiting submission attempts, as students often make mistakes loading documents and need multiple attempts to ensure you have the correct submission.

• Delete an assignment with the Canvas guide  How do I delete an assignment?
• This duplication process will not work for Quizzes.
• Attach a rubric to an assignment for grading or to communicate expectations to students with the Canvas guide  How do I add a rubric to an assignment?

Accessibility Tips

• Use descriptive text for links, instead of long URLs or ‘click here’. 
• Make instructions brief and to-the-point. Avoid long paragraphs and sentences.
• Consider allowing multiple submission types to accommodate technical limitations students may face.

Assignment Groups  are a way to categorize different graded items in Canvas. For example, you may have journals, blogs, and essays which your students create in your course. Assignment Groups allow you to label and group different types of assignments separately in order to better organize and for ease when applying weighting (see  How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups? ). When getting started with Assignment Groups, learn to

• Add and delete assignment groups with the Canvas guide  How do I add an assignment group in a course?
• Move or reorder an assignment group with the Canvas guide  How do I move or reorder an assignment group?
• Make rules governing grading expectations within assignment groups with the Canvas guide  How do I create rules for an assignment group?

Additional Resources

• CTI Resource: What is the Assignments Index Page?
• How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates as an instructor?
• How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?
• Canvas Student Guide

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If you have set up an assignment to receive online submissions, students can upload content by submitting directly to that assignment. that submitted content will only be visible to you and is connected directly to the assignment. aug 26, 2016 • faq, information.

If the instructor has set up an assignment to receive Online Submissions, students can upload content by submitting directly to that assignment. Submitted content will only be visible to teachers and is connected directly to the assignment. Check  this guide  for information on setting the Submission Type for an assignment to accept online submissions.

Once the assignment is set up properly, students can follow this guide to submit an online assignment .

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Assignments in Canvas can be submitted using several submission types. Instructors can choose what kind of online submissions they want you to use. You have the option to resubmit assignments if your instructor allows. If you cannot see the "Submit Assignment" link, you instructor may want you to submit your assignment in a different way.  

1. Click  the Assignments link in the course navigation sidebar on the left hand-side. 

2. Click the Assignments link to view all the assignments you have for that course.

Note: You can also access your Assignments through the Syllabus, Gradebook, Calendar, or Modules. 

3. When you click an Assignment title, you will see a screen with assignment instructions. You may also see a rubric if your instructor has provided one. 

4. Click the Submit Assignment link to submit your work. If you cannot see the Submit Assignment link, your instructor may not want you to submit your assignment online.

Your instructor will decide what kinds of submissions are appropriate for each assignment. In the case below, the instructor is allowing the student to use all submission types : upload file , submit a text entry , or enter a website URL . Not all file types may be available for your Assignment, depending on the assignment submission type set by your instructor. 

5. To submit a file upload, click Choose File  [1] or if you have already uploaded your assignment to Canvas and want to select it for your assignment submission, click the Click here to find a file you've already uploaded link [2]. 

4. To submit a text entry, type or copy and paste text into the Rich Content Editor. Click Submit Assignment . You can submit up to 16384 characters in the Text Entry field. 

5. To submit a text entry,  type  or  copy and paste  text into the Rich Content Editor.  Click Submit Assignment . You can submit up to 16384 characters in the Text Entry field. 

6. To submit a website URL, type or copy and paste the URL into the Website URL field. Click Submit Assignment .

7. After you have submitted your work, you will see information in the Sidebar about your submission. If you choose, you may resubmit another version of your assignment using the Re-submit Assignment  link. You will only be able to view the details of your most recent submission in the sidebar, but your instructor will be able to see all of your submissions.  

Once your instructor has graded your submission, you will be notified via the channels that you specified in your Notification Preferences. You can also see details about your assignment and links to additional feedback in the Gradebook. 

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Use Assignments with Canvas

Google Assignments and Canvas expanded Google Docs Editors and Google Drive to be compatible with Canvas for file submissions. With Assignments, you can distribute and grade student work, analyze student submissions for plagiarism detection, and use Google Docs and Drive with Canvas. 

Features and benefits of Assignments

When admins enable Google Assignments in Canvas settings, you can use its features and benefits.

• Grade in Google’s grading interface or in SpeedGrader™.
• File attachments to an assignment so each student gets their own copy to edit and submit.
• Detect missed citation checks and possible plagiarism with the originality reports feature.
• Students can submit Drive files to Canvas assignments, which instructors can grade in SpeedGrader™.
• Embed Drive files with the Canvas rich text editor.
• Add Drive files to Canvas Modules.

Assignments also provides improvements from Google Apps LTI:

• Officially supported by Google and covered by the Google Workspace for Education Terms of Service.
• Provides an option for admins to require students to use their school-issued Google accounts.
• Uses Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) 1.3 for stronger security.
• Create a new Canvas assignment.

Students can submit Drive files that you can grade with SpeedGrader™.

For teachers

Allow students to submit drive files with canvas assignments.

• After you create a new Canvas assignment, next to "Submission Type", select Online .
• Under "Online Entry Options", select File Uploads.

Important: You must select File Uploads or the submission will fail.

For students

Turn in assignments.

• Ensure you're signed into your school account. 
• Next to "File Upload", click  Google Drive.
• To open a Google Drive window, click Select file.
• Select the Drive file.

• Sign in to Canvas.
• Open the course.

• Sign in to your Google Account.
• Click Allow .
• Select the Google Drive file.
• Click Submit.

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From October 2023, Instructure will no longer support the Google Apps LTI. This means:

• No new installs will be allowed.
• No further development will be made on it.
• No customer support will be available.

Google and Instructure makes sure that Google Assignments LTI 1.3 has the Google Apps LTI functions, and includes:

• Improved security
• Flexibility
• Integrations 

Current Google Apps LTI users won’t lose access but should transition over to Google Assignments LTI 1.3.

To use the latest Assignments features, you can install and migrate to Google Assignments LTI 1.3.

No. Currently, you can’t embed a form or select one as a file type for quizzes. To use Forms for quizzes, create a form and share the link with your students. Learn how to create a Google Form.

• Any submitted work for the Google Apps LTI Cloud assignment that you want to migrate will reset. 
• If you want to keep your previous submissions, make a copy of the Canvas assignment .
• Find the Canvas assignment you want to migrate to Google Assignments LTI 1.3.

• Click Find .
• If you can’t find this option, request your Canvas administrator to turn on Google Assignments LTI 1.3 .
• Link your Google Workspace for Education account.
• Click Continue .
• Attach the Drive worksheet files.
• Choose your grading tool, then make sure the due date and points are updated.
• Click Create .

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Frequently Asked Questions about Canvas

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Organizing your Canvas Course Site

Where do students submit graded work .

Students submit their graded work to the "Assignments" tool. There are several settings you'll need to adjust within the "Assignments" tool; for example, you'll need to designate whether the assignment will be graded on a points-based system, a holistic letter grade system, or as "complete/incomplete." You'll also set the due date for the assignment submission in this tool and decide how long you'd like to allow students to submit the assignment. To learn more about how the Assignments tool works, check out  Canvas' support materials on using Assignments. 

Where do students submit ungraded work (for a DropBox-like functionality)? 

Use the "Assignments" tool in Canvas. Once you create your assignment, click "Edit," and then scroll down to the "Display Grade As" menu. You can select from a number of options, like "Not Graded," "Points," "Letter Grade," or "GPA."

How should students access course readings?

The best tool to use to organize course readings, websites, and other activities is Modules. While the "Files" tool is effective for storing documents, images, and videos from your hard drive, the Modules tool offers a more user-friendly interface for students because readings, web URLs, and other materials can be organized based on the unit you're teaching or the week you're teaching new material.

To learn more about how to use the Modules tool, check out  Canvas' support on using Modules. 

How do I embed a URL into the Files?

Unfortunately, you cannot use put URLs into the Files tool. You can use the Modules tool to share URLs with your students.

How do I ensure that all of my course materials are visible to students? 

You will see a grey cloud icon with an "x" through the middle if your course material is unpublished. When you want to publish any of your course material, click the "grey" cloud; you will see that it becomes green and has a checkmark in the middle. Once the cloud is green, your work has been published and is visible to your students!

Here's a video about organizing Canvas sites.

Communicating with Students via Canvas

How do i contact the students in my course .

Use the "Announcements" tool to contact your students about last-minute changes, reminders for class, and resources for them to explore. When you write an announcement and click the "save" button, the announcement will be immediately sent to all of your students. There is no "draft" feature in Announcements, so if you'd like to save a draft of an announcement, you can select the option to delay your post and send the announcement at a later date.

The only reasons an announcement might not reach a student in your class if your course is published or if an individual course members has opted to turn off notifications for announcements.

Can I send an e-mail to my class outside of Canvas?

Unfortunately, you cannot. You can use the "Inbox" tool instead of the "Announcements" tool if you'd like to send a message to your class, but you don't want the message to be archived in your class page. Otherwise, the "Announcements" tool is your best option.

Grading in Canvas

How do i use the gradebook in canvas .

In Canvas, the "Grades" tool is auto-populated by scores you enter into the "Assignments" tool. In order to use the Canvas gradebook, you must already be using the "Assignments" tool. You can only modify scores in the "Grades" tool by changing the grades located in the "Assignments" tool.

How do I grade individual assignments in Canvas? 

When you set up an assignment in the "Assignments" tool, students will have a space to submit their work. Once students have submitted their work to an assignment, you will then be able to grade their work either by using the "Speedgrader" tool or by downloading their submissions. The Speedgrader tool will allow you to grade student work in your web browser without having to download documents. The Speedgrader tool also features essay mark-up options; you can add comments and highlight student writing directly in the browser. To learn more about the Speedgrader, check out  the Canvas support website on Speedgrader. 

Here's a video about setting up assignments in Canvas.

Note that if you use the Speedgrader tool, students will see your grades as you're assigning them. If you do not want your student's grade to show up immediately after using Speedgrader, go into "Grades," hover over the graded item, and click the downward-facing arrow to reveal a drop-down menu. Click the arrow and select “Mute Assignment” from the menu. When you are ready to release the grades, go back into Grades, repeat this process, but choose to select “Unmute Assignment.”

Using the Attendance Tool

How do i use the attendance tool .

You can keep track of which students are in class and which are absent by clicking the "Attendance" tool in the left-hand toolbar. From there, you'll see that your students' names are automatically visible. Click the symbol that looks like a "no" sign; if you keep clicking that button, you'll see options for "in attendance" (a green button with a checkmark), "absent" (a red button with an "x"), and "tardy" (a yellow button with a clock icon). 

Can I indicate how many minutes late a student is if I select the "tardy" option? 

You cannot personalize the default buttons on the attendance tool. However, you can create "badges," which are like notes that you can repeatedly add to individual student entries. You can create "badges" by clicking the "More" button next to a student's name. Then, click "Add badge." to create a new badge for your class. For example, you could create a "badge" for "5 minutes late," "10 minutes late," and "20 minutes late" to indicate the extent to which a student was late to class. Similarly, you create a "badge" for positive accolades, like "Was an especially great leader in class discussion" or "I would love to hear more from you in the larger group conversation." You can create up to 5 badges for your course.

How do I get rid of or modify the "Roll Call Attendance" assignment? 

The Attendance tool automatically creates an Assignment called "Roll Call Attendance" that's worth 100 points.  If you do not want attendance to be a graded part of your course, take the following steps:

• Go into "Assignments."
• Click "Roll Call Attendance."
• Click "Edit Assignment Settings."
• Scroll down to the drop-down menu for "Display Grade As"
• Select "Not Graded."
• Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click "Save."

If you'd like attendance to be a graded part of your course, but you want to change the "percentage" or "point" value, take the following steps: 

• Go into "Assignments." 
• Click "Roll Call Attendance." 
• Click "Edit Assignment Settings." 
• Select how you want the attendance grade to be displayed.
• Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click "Save." 

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Assignment submission types in canvas.

Canvas lets you decide the way you want students to submit their assignments. You specify the submission type in the Submission Type box when you create the assignment. Assignment settings always remember and display the settings created or edited in the previous assignment in the course.

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No Submission

External tool.

Choose No Submission when you do not want students to submit an assignment in Canvas. You can use this assignment type to create extra columns in the Gradebook, or when you want to create an assignment that involves multiple scores.

Choose Online when you want students to submit their assignments in Canvas. When you use the online submission type, you can specify online entry options.

Text Entry : Students can submit their assignment directly in the Rich Content Editor .

Website URLs : Students can submit a URL that fulfills the assignment.

Media Recordings : Students can submit an audio or video recording that fulfills the assignment. They can either record new media or upload existing media.

File Uploads : Students can upload a file to fulfill the assignment. Note that if your institution has enbled Google Docs as a submission type, students can connect to Google Docs as a web service to submit an assignment as a Google Doc, Google Sheet, or Google Slide. However, these files will convert to their Microsoft counterpart file type—Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, respectively.

If you want to only allow certain types of files for assignment submissions, click the Restrict Upload File Types check box and manually enter a list of accepted extensions in the Allowed File Extensions box. In the case of an odd or unusual file type, try adding it to your course to confirm the file is accepted before requesting students to submit the file type.

Select On Paper when you want students to submit an assignment to you but not through Canvas. When you choose this assignment type, Canvas creates a column in the Gradebook for grading purposes. However, you must enter the grades manually.

Choose External Tool when you want students to submit their assignments using an external app (LTI) enabled for your course. You must enter a URL for the external tool.

How to Submit an Assignment on Canvas: the Assignment Submission

In today’s scenario, everyone prefers online working or online studying. Now everything is possible online. Because of the situation of COVID-19, the teachers are teaching their students from the online medium. They are giving lectures, taking tests, and giving the task of writing assignments, etc. Every student has to write assignments in their academic tenure. So they have to submit it online, but they don’t know about it. They think about how to submit an assignment on canvas (online).

Most teachers will ask you to make an assignment(a composition paper) on your computer in a word processing system (Microsoft Word) and then save the file to your computer (usually in My Documents).  

Once the file saves on your computer, you can upload and send the document to a Canvas assignment page. Before submitting your assignment, it is necessary to review all of the teacher directions for every assignment page.

How to submit an assignment on canvas?

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Using multiple submission forms, you can submit online assignments on Canvas. Teachers may select which type of online submissions they would like you to utilize. If your teacher allows, you can also have the right to resubmit assignments.

Though, you can not remove the file after it has been submitted as a request. The files are save in the Submissions tab.

You may require to evaluate all assignment data, like the rubric assignment, if any, before submitting an assignment.

• As part of your assignment, your teacher will include a rubric. The Rubric is a set of parameters that will be used by your teacher to evaluate your assignment. Before submitting your task, you can apply the Rubric to determine your work and to ensure that your assignment meets the criteria of your teacher.

This study demonstrates how to create a regular online assignment. See how to present an assignment on peer review.

• Your teacher may request that you submit a peer review of the assignment to another student. To complete the assignment, you need to review the assignment of the student and add a review in the comment sidebar.
• If the teacher uses a rubric, which is a planned framework of how the grade of an assignment will provide, the Rubric must be used by you to give a score. Your teacher may, however, also demand you to drop a comment in the comment sidebar.
• Some peer reviews can also be anonymous, meaning you would not be able to see the name of the student whose assignment you study. Also, when you leave a comment to complete the review, the student can not see your name as the reviewer.

Submission of assignment through third-party file:

You can send tasks via your desktop computer from Dropbox, another third-party service, or Google Drive in one of two ways: 

• Download the data to your PC or present it as a file upload.
• Give the file, copy the file URL, and send it as a URL for the Website.

Submission of assignment through mobile:

You can also use your Android or iOS app to submit the assignment.

Points to be remembered while understanding how to submit an assignment on canvas:

• Every file form cannot be available for your task, depending on your teacher’s, select the type of assignment submission.
• Your assignments can not all be submitted online if you are unable to view the Submit Assignment connection, your teacher may require you to submit your assignment in another process, or the time of availability has crossed. For instructions, see the information about the assignment or communicate with your teacher for help.
• Canvas doesn’t approve uploads of files greater than 5 GB.
• If allowed within your account, when you submit an assignment on time, Canvas will play an animation for the celebration. However, this function option can be disabled in your user settings if you prefer.

Here are some steps of how to submit an assignment on canvas:

1. open assignments.

• Click the assignments link in the course navigation.

Remember: You can also use your dashboard, Syllabus, Gradebook, Calendar, or Modules to access your assignments.

2. See assignments related to your course:

• Click on the assignment name.

3. Submit your assignment:

Click on the submit assignment key to give your work for the submission of an assignment.

Remember: If you are unable to access the submit assignment key, your teacher doesn’t allow you for the online submission of the assignment, or the time of availability is gone. For instructions, see the information about the assignment or communicate with your teacher for help.

4. Check the number of attempts for submission:

Your teacher can restrict the number of attempts to apply for an assignment you are given to write. If you have a limited number of submissions in your assignment, then you can confirm the number of submission attempts you made, as shown in point 1 and the number of submissions permitted for the assignment[point 2].

When you have finished all of your attempts for assignment submission, the button for submitting assignment shows as disabled [point 3]. 

5. Check notice for the final grade:

An emblem may seem over your assignment to show that the assignment has been eliminated from complete grade calculations by your teacher. Though, this setting does not affect submissions for the assignment.

6. Picked the type of submission:

Your teacher also determines the types of submissions that are suitable concerning every task. The four forms of submission are there: submit a text entry, upload a file, enter a URL for the Website, or submit media.

Remember: For your assignment, not every file forms can be available depending upon the type of assignment submission your teacher has selected.

7. Submit through the file upload form:

Select the File Upload tab to upload a folder from your pc and send an assignment as your task.

8. Submit through the text entry form:

To request an assignment for the text entry, select the tab Text Entry.

Remember: The Rich Content Editor assignment submission contains a word count indicator under the text box in the bottom of the right corner.

9. Submit through the website URL:

Click the Website URL tab to submit a URL of the Website.

10. Submit through the media recording:

Click the media tab to submit a media recording.

11. Submission of an assignment:

Click the assignment submit button while you are able to submit your task.

12. Check the submission of the assignment:

After submitting your work, you can see details about your submission in the sidebar [ point 1 in image]. For file uploads, a connection to your submission is given in the sidebar for download, if necessary.

By utilizing the assignment Re-Submit button [ point 2 in image], you can resubmit other variants of your task, if you like. Only the specifics of your most current submission can be viewed in the sidebar, but your teacher will be capable of seeing all of your submissions.

When the teacher has evaluated your submission, a grading indicator appears on the Grades page in Course Navigation.

Information about links to additional reviews and your assignment can also find on your Grades page.

 The above steps help you in solving your question on how to submit an assignment on canvas .

Checking assignment status:

 The right sidebar will display the task status when you click on an assignment name: 

• It will display the time and date it was applied in (if it were submitted late, then the date would be in red).
• It will give links to details of the submission and a link to the initial submission.
• If it is evaluated and graded, then it will indicate the potential score and complete score.
• You can obtain more details on an assignment’s status by using the Grades link, which will discuss your grades portion in more detail.

Conclusion:

From the above discussion, you get the answer to your question of how to submit an assignment on canvas . So follow the above steps while submitting your assignment and take a breath of relief.  

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New canvas feature: submit assignment on behalf of student.

Scheduled to be released March 18, Instructure is adding another much-requested feature to Canvas: Submit Assignment on Behalf of Student. This will allow a teacher in a course to submit a student upload to an assignment. The teacher can upload a document that their student has given them in some other way while retaining the ability to annotate and retain submission history in Canvas.

This new feature is part of the March 2023 Canvas release. You can read more below, or you can go to the Canvas release notes page .

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Submit Assignment on Behalf of Student

Recommended Use

We do recommend, when possible, that the teacher use the existing standard in Canvas for student submissions. That would be to assign missing assignment to the student individually (as one would for an accommodation or extension) and then ask them to submit it through the standard process.

Additionally, a teacher can only submit on behalf of a student for a file upload assignment (not text entry, quizzes, or discussions).

Related directions: How do I assign an assignment to an individual student?

To submit on behalf of a student:

• Go to the grade book
• Find the assignment and student (use the student and assignment search filters above the gradebook to find it quickly!)

• Follow the prompts to select the file and upload from your computer

Details and Limitations

• Canvas will track who submitted on behalf of a student. It will display this in the same sidecar as above, as well as in in SpeedGrader.
• If you use late policies, you can manually set (override) the late from the same part of the gradebook. Directions: How do I apply a Late Submission Policy?
• This is only for assignments in Canvas. This does not work for external tools. Some integrations have their own ability to submit on behalf of a student while others do not.
• If using Canvas assignments in conjunction with Turnitin framework plagiarism detection, you can go to SpeedGrader after the above to ask for a resubmit. Note, however, that doing so bypasses the student’s consent to accept the terms and conditions of the submission and database retention.
• This feature also works with group assignments and peer review assignments, as if the student you selected had submitted. When viewing the submission, other students will see that it was submitted by the teacher on behalf of the student.
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