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Canvas Assignments
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.
Assignment Types
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.
- Online: For assignments for which you will require students to submit something through Canvas. These include:
- Text Entry: For students to enter text directly into a text box on Canvas
- Website URL: For students to enter a URL
- Media Recordings: For students to upload or record media for submission
- File Uploads: For students to upload files for submission
- On Paper: For assignments students will submit in person.
- External Tool: For assignments which students will submit through a third-party tool (i.e Yellowdig, VoiceThread)
Learn more about Assignment types.
Creating Assignments
Any assignment created and published in the Assignments page will automatically show up in the Grades, Calendar, and Syllabus features so students can view them. Additionally, any assignments created in the Calendar will automatically show up in the Grades, Assignments, and Syllabus features. Assignments can be used to:
- Assess how well students are achieving course outcomes
- Set up online submissions that can be quickly graded in the SpeedGrader
- Grade online as well as student work submitted "on-paper"
- Create differentiated assignments for sections
- Set up peer reviews
- Record attendance
- Create ungraded activities that align with course outcomes
Learn more about Assignment basics:
- How to create an assignment in Canvas
- Assignment due dates vs. availability dates
- How do I add or edit details in an assignment?
- How do I add or edit points for an assignment?
- How to limit submission attempts for an assignment
- Setting up assignment groups in Canvas
- How to add an assignment that includes anonymous grading
- How do I publish or unpublish an assignment as an instructor?
- How to add an assignment that includes anonymous grading