SpeedGrader allows you to view, provide feedback and grade student assessment submissions. Canvas accepts a variety of document formats and even URLs as assignment submissions. Assessments submissions in .pdf, .doc/.docx, and .ppt/.pptx file format can be annotated on directly in SpeedGrader. You can also provide feedback to your students with text or media comments, including a voice-to-text feature.

You can access SpeedGrader through: Assignments, Quizzes, Graded Discussions, and the Gradebook.

Note: All values for an assessment (grades, feedback, rubric) will be auto-saved in Speedgrader.

SpeedGrader will enable you to:

Sort submissions by student and hide student names for anonymous grading
View submission and resubmissions of each student
Use rubrics to assign grades and feedback
Leave contextual feedback

For each student, SpeedGrader has six areas:

View student submissions (text entries, website URLs, media recordings, and/or file uploads); preview supported file types in Canvas DocViewer; review other file format submissions using the document previewer or Google Preview
Assign a grade based on your preferred assessment method (points or percentage)
View Rubric to assist with grading (if one is added to the assignment)
View Turnitin Originality report (if this has been added to the assignment)
View comments created by you or the student about the assignment
Create text, video, and/or audio commentary overall feedback

To provide feedback on assessment submissions, you can:

Download the submission, put feedback on the document, and re-upload the submission .
Use Canvas DocViewer to annotate any .pdf, .doc/.docx, and .ppt/.pptx assessments directly in SpeedGrader.

Note: Speedgrader is generally designed for only one teacher to grade at a time. If you have multiple graders, it is recommended that each teacher only grades within a particular ‘section’ within that course. If you are unsure of your course sections, please check with your course coordinator.

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