Reading Time: 2 minutes With finals just over a month away, it’s the perfect time to revisit how Canvas rubrics can make your grading life easier. We’ve talked before about some aspects of adding and using rubrics in courses. As a brief refresher, Canvas has excellent resources on creating and adding rubrics to assignments as well as creating and adding rubrics to discussions. We’ve also talked about how to add existing (already created in Canvas) rubrics to an assignment or discussion. Today we’re turning our attention to a setting that’ll make your grading life easier – using a rubric for assignment grading. You may think that you’re doing that by…
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Adding Existing Outcomes to Your Canvas Rubrics
Reading Time: < 1 minute In the previous post Adding Existing Rubrics to Your Canvas Course, we’ve talked about finding an existing rubric and using the rubric in your assignment. Today, we’re talking about adding existing outcomes to an assignment rubric. Step 1: Add existing outcomes to your course Click the Outcomes link in the course navigation to open the Outcomes page. Click the “Find” button to open the Find Outcomes window. In the Find Outcomes window, choose Account Standards -> Cedarville University. Here, you will find the outcome folders provided by Cedarville such as Oral Communication and Written Communication. Click the outcome folder that you want to add to your…
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Adding Existing Rubrics to Your Canvas Course
Reading Time: < 1 minute In previous posts, we’ve briefly talked about creating rubrics to use in your course. Canvas has great resources for how to accomplish that in their “How do I add a rubric to a graded discussion?” and “How do I add a rubric to an assignment?” walkthroughs. Today, however, we’re tackling a subset of that topic – adding existing rubrics to an assignment or discussion. Open the “create rubric” form. For assignments, this is located under the assignment description; and for discussions, it’s in the “three dots” menu in the discussion header. Click the “Find a Rubric” link in the top right of the rubric form. This will pull…
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How Can I Get a Deleted Item Back in Canvas?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sometimes you’re working in Canvas, decide to remove an item from your course only to later realize either you did actually want the item in your course or you accidentally deleted the wrong item. Before you panic or start stressing, Canvas does make it easy to restore most items (and it’ll even try to restore the student data)! Go to the Canvas course where you want to restore an item. At the end of the URL, add “/undelete” – it should be right after the course id number. Your URL should look like the following: cedarville.instructure.com/courses/####/undelete. Canvas will take you to a “Restore Deleted Items” page that lists the items you can bring back. Scroll…
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Remote Learning: The Next Level
Reading Time: 2 minutes Once you’ve worked through the tools we talked about in Remote Learning: The Basics, you’re ready for the next step. These items will enhance your course – they make content easier to find for students, grading easier for you, and improve accessibility in your videos. Linking Canvas content together We’re going to start off with one of the coolest features in Canvas: linking to items within the course from a page, discussion, announcement, or anywhere else that the Rich Content Editor is used. This is especially helpful if you’re sending an announcement out to students where you reference a page or assignment – you can link directly…