Feedback

Providing effective and rapid feedback is imperative to student success. This section outlines best practices for communicating constructive feedback to students.

Why Provide Feedback?

Facilitating detailed and timely feedback can help students get more out of their learning.

Be specific so students know what actions to take moving forward.

Be prompt so that the content is still relatively fresh and relevant in their minds.

Be sensitive, and focus on how students can improve rather than just listing what they did wrong.

Formative

Design lower-stakes opportunities for students to demonstrate knowledge. The more data points generated, the more guidance instructors can provide.

Summative

Summative assessments can be useful in evaluating each student’s overall progress. When creating exams or final projects, ensure that they align with course objectives and content.

Canvas

Feedback can be delivered through Canvas in many ways.

SpeedGrader: Input marks and comments in SpeedGrader. Annotate and markup student work
Automatic Quiz Comments: Configure automatic comments which will show based on how students responded to a quiz question – i.e. why is Answer B incorrect?
Announcement: Send out a course-wide announcement to debrief an assignment/exam/quiz
Inbox: Send students a private message with Canvas Inbox. Through the Gradebook, instructors have the option of quickly messaging students who haven’t submitted, scored lower than X, scored higher than X