• Canvas

    Canvas Reassign Assignment: An Easy Way to Ask Students to Resubmit Work

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Canvas has added a new tool in SpeedGrader to simplify your workflow. Imagine a student submits an assignment, but they dropped it in the wrong assignment or just grabbed the wrong document to upload. Previously, you’d message the student or leave a comment in SpeedGrader. The student would then need to see that note and remember to complete the request. Now Canvas has added a button in SpeedGrader that will add an assignment back to a student’s to-do list.   Before we get into the how of this feature, there are some limitations you need to know about.   This feature is only available for some types of assignments. It’s not available for External Tool (LTI), on paper, or no submission…

  • Canvas

    How Can I Make Sure I Don’t Miss Q&A Forum Posts in Canvas?

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Students will always have questions to ask and a myriad of ways to ask them. They could reply to an announcement you post in Canvas, send you an email, or post in the Course Q&A forum included in the template CTL provides. That Q&A forum allows students to put forth questions for you or the other students to answer.   That forum doesn’t automatically give you notifications, but they’re easy to turn on. Go to the Course Q&A forum in your course. Just below the text box on the right side, you’ll see a “subscribe” button. Click that button, and you’ll get email notifications when questions are asked.   Have…