[ARCHIVED] Re: How do I view differentiated assignments with different due dates in a course?

[jennifer_garwoo]

Are there ways to differentiate assignments beyond due dates and availability dates?

I need to differentiate content for students with IEPs, LEPs, and WEPs per federal laws and mandates.

[Bobby2 · Accepted solution]

HI @jennifer_garwoo I love the potential within Canvas to differentiate.

The first things that come to mind are being able to assign items to individuals, small groups or the whole class. here are some guides for that:

• How do I assign an assignment to everyone in a course?
• How do I assign an assignment to an individual student?
• How do I assign an assignment to a course section?
• How do I assign an assignment to a course group?

As an instructor you can allow students to resubmit if needed:

• Can a student resubmit Canvas assignments?

You can also create different types of assignments according to need:

• What assignment types can I create in a course?

Here are a few articles that may be helpful also.

Differentiation and Personalised Learning

Personalised learning Tips and Tricks 

Improve academics

I hope that helps.

Sing out if you need a hand. We are keen to hear what works for you. Feel free to share when you can. 

[jennifer_garwoo]

Thank you for sharing some ideas!

Unfortunately, due to syncing with our SIS, I am not given the option to create course sections. While I could assign to groups, that only works for group projects where I want students working together.

The only way I am seeing to have two versions of an assignment is to type in every student's name- either in the original assignment or the modified assignment. This is extremely tedious, especially when you cannot select more than one student name at a time. I would need to click the arrow, click a name, and repeat over 50 times for every assignment. 

If the groups were changed so that I could assign individual assignments to students within each group, I would easily be able to differentiate for my students daily. As it stands, it's too cumbersome to plan on doing on any kind of regular basis.

[MsTia]

Jennifer, this may be an imperfect workaround, but if I did not have the power to make sections to differentiate, yet wanted to give just Johnny and Maria a different assignment from the general one, this is what I'd do:

1.  Assign "Week 06 Homework" to Everyone (so I don't have to type all those names)
   
   
2. Go into that general assignment in Speed Grader or Grades, and EXEMPT with "EX" for just Johnny & Maria (that's pretty quick)
   
   
3. Assign "Week 06 Homework Modified" to just Johnny and Maria (again, just a couple of quick clicks)

Of course, one downside is that I'd have to tell Johnny & Maria that they have a different version & to please ignore the exempted one. There's no way I know to make this differentiation invisible and seamless without sections, alas. But, happily, even though they can SEE the exempted assignment, they cannot accidentally turn it in.

I have in fact done this to differentiate WITHIN a section, when I needed to serve out something a LITTLE different for Johnny and Maria only.