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Follow these simple steps to access your Lucid account directly from your Canvas course page. Lucid is an online diagramming and brainstorming tool that allows you to easily create flowcharts, graphic organisers, and other visuals. It is directly integrated into Canvas, allowing you to embed all your diagrams created from Lucid into Canvas course pages, …
Explains how you can share with your ākonga what you did as a result of their feedback about their time at MIT. Feedback from your ākonga comes in two main formats: This article gives you some ideas on sharing with your ākonga, changes that you have made to the programme delivery, based on their formal …
How to avoid student submitted work not showing in SpeedGrader but shows in Turnitin assignments inbox. You may experience an issue where a students’ work does not show in SpeedGrader, though it appears in the Turnitin assignment inbox. This is usually due to students leaving the assignment submission portal open for too long before submitting …
Have you found that the Marks box in SpeedGrader is not automatically populating with the assignment mark? Find the fix here. If the Marks box is not automatically populating with the assignment mark? Find the fix here. IMPORTANT! Do not edit the rubric criteria, only the settings. For moderation purposes, do not edit the rubric …
Step by step instructions on How to mark a Group Assignment using SpeedGrader. OR OR Note: If you have setup grading in the Rubric settings, the Grade field will automatically populate with the rubric grade results. OR Where to go next? 1 What is SpeedGrader? 2 Marking Using SpeedGrader 3 Adding Comments in SpeedGrader 4 …
You can access and reuse comments across different assignments and courses, by adding these to the Comments Library within your Canvas profile. This will save you time and improve efficiency marking student assessments. To add comments to the Comment Library Edit a Comment in your Library Delete a Comment from your Library Adding a Comment …
How to add text comments, images, videos, links, equations and other multimedia elements to provide detailed feedback to your students. How can this help you? Using the text editor tool within SpeedGrader you can provide detailed feedback to your students, enhancing communication by allowing you to emphasise key points, organise information more clearly, and include …
How to mark student's work using SpeedGrader in Canvas.
What SpeedGrader in Canvas is, and how it can be used.
The Rubric Criteria Builder tool was designed to improve rubric creation, preserving existing features while adding new enhancements. If you can’t find an existing rubric to use for the assignment, you can create a new rubric for your assignment. The Rubric Criteria Builder tool was designed to improve rubric creation, preserving existing features while adding …
The new Enhanced Rubrics feature is now available, giving rubrics a cleaner design and some long-awaited improvements. This update doesn’t change how rubrics work—but it does make them easier to read, faster to edit, and more flexible to use across your course. What’s new? The first thing you’ll notice is the streamlined layout. Rubrics now …
Answers to frequently asked questions about course visibility to students before and after a course starts and ends. How long do students have access to their past courses after the course close date? When can students first access their course after it’s published? Students can see the course once: If you want to restrict access …
Learn how to create a custom colour swatch in Canvas LMS and easily apply it to text using the font colour options. Creating a New Colour Swatch Applying the Colour to Text
Most Canvas courses at MIT need to use the MIT Canvas Standards (MCS). This is how you import it into your course. Prepare Your Course Make it easy to import into the right course by giving your course a nickname. If you’ve delivered a course multiple times, you’ll have lots of courses in your Canvas …
Part seven of the MyKoha series provides guidance on giving feedback to students using You Said, We Did. It’s important to let your students know that you’ve taken on board what they’ve said. At MIT we do this using a mechanism called You Said, We Did. How does this work? Students give you the lecturer …
