Assignments

Assignments are a fundamental part of assessing student progress in most online courses. Canvas has a variety of ways for you to assign course work to your students in engaging formats that you can tailor to suit the needs of your course. The tutorials on this page cover the tools you can use to create, distribute, collect, and grade assignments from your students.

Tutorials

• Add a Grading Scheme to an Assignment
• Add Manual Columns to the Canvas Gradebook
• Adjust Due Dates for All Assignments
• Assign Peer Reviews for Assignments
• Attach a Rubric to an Assignment
• Create a Group Assignment
• Create a Rubric in Canvas
• Create an Assignment
• Create an Assignment with a Due Date
• Create an Assignment with Files Attached
• Create an Assignment with Limited Availability
• Create Weighted Assignment Groups
• Edit Existing Assignments
• Give Extra Credit
• Import SCORM Files as Assignments into Canvas
• Organize Assignments Using Assignment Groups
• Set Up a GoReact Assignment in Canvas
• Use GoReact to Provide Feedback on Videos
• Use Hypothesis
• Use the Canvas Audio/Video Recorder
• Use Unicheck to Check for Plagiarism