Creating Assignments

How to Create an Assignment

There are two main ways to create a new assignment. One way is to click on the blue "+ Assignment" button in the upper right-hand corner of the page.

After clicking on this button, you will be taken to a blank assignment settings page.

*Please note that if you have already created an assignment, certain fields will be auto-populated based on the settings from the previous assignment (point value, submission type, et cetera...)

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You can also create a new assignment by selecting the "+" symbol to the far right of the assignment group name.

When creating an assignment using this method, the you will receive a truncated version of the normal Assignment settings page. However, if you are looking to create all of the settings for the assignment, you can also select "More Options" on this pop-up to navigate to the main assignment setting page.

Assignment Settings

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1. Assignment Name - This field is where the instructor will put the title of the assignment.

2. Rich Content Editor - This field is where the assignment instructions and description will go.

3. Points - Point value of the assignment

4. Assignment Group - The assignment group that the assignment is located in.

5. Display Grade as - Allows you to decide how you would like the grades for this assignment to appear. The choices are: Percentage, Complete/Incomplete, Points, Letter Grade, and Not Graded.

6. Do not count this assignment towards the final grade - Does not include the grade for the assignment in the final grade.

7. Submission Type - Allows you to decide what types of submissions you would like their student's to submit. These options include: No Submission, Online, On Paper, External Tool. If you select either "Online" or "External Tool" you will have several other options or settings to select.

8. Group Assignment - This setting allows you to set the assignment as a group assignment. When selecting this setting, you will be asked to decide whether you want to grade the students individually or as a group. If you decide to grade the students as a group, only the group titles will appear in Speedgrader, whereas, if you decide to grade them individually the student names will appear in Speedgrader. Also, you will be asked to select a group set. You can either create a new group set from this screen or select an existing group set.

Please note that only one member of a group needs to submit as the submission will also be associated with the other group members.

Also, by selecting a group set the groups have not been automatically created. You will need to verify that within the selected group set, the students have either signed up for a group or been placed in a group.

9. Peer Reviews - This is a setting within Canvas that allows students to review fellow classmates work. 

10. Anonymous Grading- When grading student submissions, the names of the students will be replaced with "Student 1," "Student 2," et cetera

11. Assign - This field is where you will decide who to assign the assignment to, when the assignment will be accessible until, and when the assignment is actually due.

12. This check box will send a notification to users that there has been a change to the assignment if checked.

13. You can either "Cancel" to exit the edit view of the assignment, "Save & Publish" to save and automatically publish the assignment so students will see that the assignment exists, or "Save" which will just save the content without changing the visibility of the assignment.

For more information about creating assignments, please visit the Canvas instructor guides on assignments Links to an external site..