Use SpeedGrader to Grade & Provide Feedback
Introduction
This page includes activities and resources related to the essentials of grading assignments, quizzes, and other forms of student work in Canvas. Every instructor approaches grading differently, so while there are a number of resources included below, please feel free to choose only those that best meet your individual needs.
On This Page:
- Access SpeedGrader
- Grade an assignment or quiz with SpeedGrader
- Provide feedback with SpeedGrader
- Use a rubric in SpeedGrader to grade student work
Access SpeedGrader
Read the following tutorials to learn how to access SpeedGrader from various place within your course:
- How do I get to SpeedGrader from an assignment, quiz, or graded discussion? Links to an external site. (External resource)
- How do I get to SpeedGrader from the Gradebook? Links to an external site. (External resource)
Grade an assignment or quiz with SpeedGrader
Read a tutorial or watch a video to learn how to use SpeedGrader to view, grade, and comment on assignments:
- How do I use SpeedGrader? Links to an external site. (External resource)
SpeedGrader Overview video, 3m 6s
Read this tutorial to learn one way you can grade quizzes more efficiently using SpeedGrader:
- How do I grade one quiz question at a time in SpeedGrader? Links to an external site. (External resource)
You may still need to access and modify individual quiz results for automatically-graded quizzes. Read the following two tutorials to learn how to view quiz results and regrade a quiz as needed:
- How do I view student results in a quiz? Links to an external site. (External resource)
- How do I regrade a quiz? Links to an external site. (External resource)
Provide feedback with SpeedGrader
Read this tutorial to learn how to leave feedback for your students using text, an attached file, video, or audio recording:
- How do I leave feedback for my student submissions in SpeedGrader? Links to an external site. (External resource)
Read this tutorial to learn how to leave feedback with the SpeedGrader Comment Library, where you can add and store comments to use in SpeedGrader across other assessments:
- How do I use the Comment Library in SpeedGrader? Links to an external site. (External resource)
After reviewing and scoring an assignment, you may want to provide the student the opportunity to revise and resubmit the assignment. Read this tutorial to learn how to reassign an assignment to a student:
- How do I reassign an assignment in SpeedGrader? Links to an external site. (External resource)
Use a rubric in SpeedGrader to grade student work
Follow the steps in these tutorials to grade and provide feedback to an assignment with a ratings or free-form comments rubric:
- How do I use a rubric to grade submissions in SpeedGrader? Links to an external site. (External resource)
- How do I use free-form comments instead of ratings in a rubric? Links to an external site. (External resource)
Provide this tutorial to students to help them learn how to access the rubric both before and after their assignment has been graded:
- How do I view rubric results for my assignment (for students)? Links to an external site. (External resource)