Canvas Assignments

Learn how to efficiently manage your assignments on Canvas with our comprehensive guide, covering everything from adding instructions to setting up group assignments and timed assessments.

• Part one - Adding an assignment to units and using the Rich Content Editor to add a brief and instructions
• Part two - Points, Assignment group and Do not count towards final grade
• Part three - Submission Type, Submission Attempts and Plagiarism Review
• Part four - Group assignment, Anonymous grading and Assign to
• How to set up group assignments
• How to add extension into the assignment
• Timed Assessments
• Full step-by-step guidance for assignment management at UH can be found in the Assignments Guide 2023.

The university has Turnitin as its plagiarism software that have been integrated into Canvas.

You can set up plagiarism detection during the assignment set up. The guide below demonstrates how to set up the Turnitin for your summative assignment and how to access the similarity reports:

• Setting up plagiarism review for summative assignments

The University provides text-matching software (Turnitin) to students as one of many aids to improve their academic writing skills and to promote the concept of self-regulation. In all cases where an assignment is submitted online via StudyNet, students have a single opportunity to submit each piece of coursework through Turnitin.

• Setting up TurnitIn for Students

Marker allocation is useful if you have a large marking team and/or tutors who need to mark particular students' work. Our comprehensive guide takes you through setting -up the Marker Allocation and marking using this tool.

Please note that you need to be on the UH VPN (Links to an external site.) and be registered as a Module Leader, Tutor or Support Tutor to use the Marker Allocation tool. If you change your primary UH email in your Account Settings on Canvas you may not be able to use this tool.

• Marker Allocation

Moderation would take place after all assignments are marked in SpeedGrader. The Moderation tool allows the moderator to create a record of moderation activity, that can be viewed by any member of staff registered on the module and the external examiner.

• Moderation

Assessment marking and feedback on Canvas refer to the process of evaluating students' assignments or exams and providing feedback on their performance. Instructors can use various tools such as rubrics and comments to provide constructive feedback to students on their work.

• How to provide marks and feedback using SpeedGrader for an online submission
• How to provide feedback and return marks using SpeedGrader for an offline submission
• How to mark Group assignment
• How to release marks and feedbacks to students
• How to remove late policy from the gradebook

Rubrics in Canvas are the equivalent of Marking Schemes and can be used to provide feedback to students on how well they have met certain elements of the assignment and/or the specific learning outcomes relating to the assignment.

• Rubrics

Referral and deferral assignments should be set-up as separate portals and only be assigned to students who are completing these assignments.

• How to set up Referral and Deferrals with the best of rule (Link coming soon)

Grades has been enabled on 2022/23 modules. This is an option for students to see their weighted marks, track their marks more accurately and approximate their module mark with the 'What-If' feature.To support students to use this feature, all assignments should be weighted when they are set-up.

• Weighting your assignments

• Utilising the Grades Function
• Colour Coding in the Gradebook
• Adding or Importing Grades: Non-Canvas Submission assignments
• Exporting Grades to Student Record Administrators

Software Licences

Assignments in Canvas and Turnitin have institutional licences. Marker Allocation and Online Moderation were built in house.

Accessibility

Canvas: Ensuring an accessible and pleasant experience for all users, regardless of disability, is a key element of Canvas software. The Canvas platform was built using the most modern HTML and CSS technologies and is committed to W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative and Section 508 (opens external site) guidelines. Canvas accessibility standards (opens external site).

Turnitin: Their accessibility program aims to incorporate accessibility into the entire product development lifecycle to ensure that our website and applications are accessible and usable by everyone regardless of disability or circumstance. Turnitin Commitment to Accessibility (opens external site).