Speeding Up Grading with the SpeedGrader Keyboard Shortcuts

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We’ve previously talked about how you can speed up grading and improve your feedback to students in Canvas with the four types of assignment comments and the annotation tools in SpeedGrader. Today, we’re looking at another element of SpeedGrader that can help streamline your workflow: keyboard shortcuts.

These shortcuts can help you quickly move from student to student as well as select various items from the submission information and grading panel. As a note, the shortcuts only work if you have the submission information and grading panel “in focus.” If you have clicked on the document and are in the process of making annotations for a student, the shortcuts will not work until you have clicked on the right panel. In addition, if you use the shortcut for either “Leave comment” or “Change grade,” you will need to click outside those text-entry fields before you use another shortcut.

Without further ado, the shortcuts:

j – Next student
k – Previous student
c – Leave comment
g – Change grade
r – Use rubric

Canvas also has these shortcuts listed inside SpeedGrader. To check out the list, click the gear icon in the SpeedGrader toolbar and select “Keyboard Shortcuts.” To learn more about other keyboard shortcuts in Canvas, check out the Canvas Keyboard Shortcuts document.