Grading

Canvas Grading

This section describes best practices for grading student work.

Rubrics

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A rubric is a tool to aid in marking by setting clear expectations in advance of receiving the work from students. Rubrics go beyond a marking guide by not just listing criteria to be judged, but also by providing clear examples of what each level of achievement looks like.

Feedback

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

Adjust your Grade Posting Policy

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Hide your grades for entire grade centre (Do this prior to entering any grades) If you do not want the grades you enter to be immediately visible to students, we recommend changing your course’s grade posting policy to Manually Post Grades. You can change the grade posting policy for your course by following these steps: * Note…

Turnitin Plagiarism Framework

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What is the Canvas Plagiarism Framework option? Turnitin has worked with Canvas to develop an integration that will allow instructors to enable Turnitin within the Canvas Assignment workflow. This integration allows Turnitin to be enabled for a Canvas assignment, provides a Similarity Report and Spelling and Grammar suggestions and can be accessed via SpeedGrader. All…

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