I've created assignments and students can use a variety of formats to submit work online, but I don't see a link (icon) on the assignment page itself for students to actually add the file.
What am I missing in the set up of these Assignment pages?
Need quick answer (if possible) Thanks!
Howard Davis...
The screens you are seeing for setting up your assignment are going to look a bit different than they would for a student. For example, it wouldn't really make sense for you to submit the assignment via your role because you are the instructor. Thankfully, Instructure provides a "Student View" so you can see what the assignment will look like from a student's point of view. How do I view a course as a test student using Student View? So, create your assignment making sure that you have all your settings the way you want, and then use the Student View to see what it looks like. Here are some additional Guides for students on how to submit assignments ... based on the kinds of assignment types you are allowing:
How do I submit an online assignment?
How do I submit a text entry assignment?
How do I submit a media file as an assignment submission?
How do I submit an assignment on behalf of a group?
How do I submit a peer review to an assignment?
How do I upload a file as an assignment submission in Canvas?
How do I upload a file from Google Drive as an assignment submission in Canvas?
How do I submit a cloud assignment with Google Drive?
How do I upload a file from Microsoft Office 365 as an assignment submission?
How do I submit a cloud assignment with Microsoft Office 365?
Also, these video tutorials for Students is a good resource:
Assignments Overview (Students)
Assignment Submissions (Students)
I hope this information will be of help to you, Howard.
Thanks for the quick response, but my problem is that in the student view I do not see a submit assignment button.
Howard Davis...
When you are logged in as yourself (not the Student View), take a look at the assignment settings again. What do you have set for your "Submission Type"? This should be "Online" if you want students to submit a document such as a Word document or PDF file to you. (You'll need to select the "File Uploads" option, too.) If you could maybe share a screen shot of your assignment settings, that would be helpful.
Thanks...
Aha! I think I left out one or more of those check boxes. Now, in student view I see "submit assignment."
Thanks for your responsiveness--it's greatly appreciated! I have a show and tell with my client tomorrow first thing in the morning, and I needed content loaded & enough functionality in this module to help them understand what an online version of their course looks like and how students/instructors would interact.
Hi Chris,
Is there any "easy" way to look at all of the students' submission for a particular assignment. I saw the note about using Speed Grader to check for a student's submission, but is there a simpler way to open all student responses for a particular assignment.
Also, and I think you already answered this, but is there no other way--aside from Speed Grader-- to look at student (assignment) file submissions?
Thanks.
Hi Howard Davis...
You caught me online before I grab some supper. Let's see if we can get these questions answered for you...
Is there any "easy" way to look at all of the students' submission for a particular assignment. I saw the note about using Speed Grader to check for a student's submission, but is there a simpler way to open all student responses for a particular assignment.
For a given assignment, you can download all student submissions so that you can open them in an offline setting. Please check out these Guides:
Also, and I think you already answered this, but is there no other way--aside from Speed Grader-- to look at student (assignment) file submissions?
SpeedGrader is the easiest way I can think of to get to all of your students' assignment submissions. You can certainly go to your "Grades" page, but then you'll still need to use links on that page to get you to the SpeedGrader.
By chance, do you have the Canvas Teacher app installed on your mobile device? If not, you can download the Canvas Teacher app to your mobile phone or tablet to do assignment grading, too. Here are a couple Guides to get you started:
How do I download the Teacher app on my iOS device?
How do I download the Teacher app on my Android device?
I hope this information is helpful to you, Howard.
Thanks Chris for the very quick reply! I'll check it out. Hope you're not caught in this heat wave. Howard
Oh...I am, actually. I live in Wisconsin. Yesterday, we had a 104 degree heat index! Last night and this morning into the afternoon...large severe thunderstorms.
Yikes! Hope the weather has calmed down. Here, we're in the middle of a thunder storm.
A question about access.
I need to give access to the course instructors. What's the simplest way to create instructor-level accounts for them?
Thanks.
I'm adding a new question in this thread--hope that's ok.
I need to create a course home page which has school's logo, a banner, and standard welcoming and course information for students. But the closest I could get was creating a front page, which I'm using as an introduction to each module.
When I click on Home Page in the navigation it takes me to all my modules, but there's no graphic look and feel. I realize that there are four? different home page views, but I'm really not sure how to get to what I need.
Thanks.
Howard Davis...
When I click on Home Page in the navigation it takes me to all my modules, but there's no graphic look and feel. I realize that there are four? different home page views, but I'm really not sure how to get to what I need.
Thanks.
I debated branching this question off into a separate discussion, but I'll keep it here for now.
I think what you're asking is how to set a "Front Page" for content that you'd designed in your course, correct? So, assuming that you've made a content page via your "Pages" page...which you would like to use as the "Home" page for your course, the next thing you'll want to do is assign that page as the "Front Page": How do I set a Front Page in a course?. Once you have done this, use the following Guide to make that page your "Home" page: How do I change the Course Home Page?.
Hoping this will help, Howard. Please let the Community know if you have questions...thanks!
Thanks for responses. Quick protocol questions:
If I have another question about the same topic, then I click reply, correct?
If I want to create a question about a new topic, then I should go to the question section of Q& A, yes?
How do I know whether my reply is going to the community or to you?
Thanks.
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Howard Davis...
If I have another question about the same topic, then I click reply, correct?
Yes...if you have follow-up questions related to your original question, it's perfectly fine to post those in the same topic.
If I want to create a question about a new topic, then I should go to the question section of Q& A, yes?
Yes, at the top of any page here in the Community, click on the "Q&A" menu, select "Ask & Answer Questions", and then click on either the red "Ask a Question" or the "Start a Discussion" button on the left hand side of the screen. "Ask a Question" is if your are looking for a "Correct" answer. "Start a Discussion" is more open-ended and may not necessarily have one "Correct" response, and you may get several replies that all have more than one way to accomplish the same thing.
How do I know whether my reply is going to the community or to you?
Anything you post brand new always is posted to everyone in the Community. Nothing is every posted directly to me...unless someone were to tag me in a posting for some reason. Most of the time, people will just ask their question, and someone from the Community will chime in. Sometimes when people post questions, they will tag other people or other topics/discussions/documents/Guides, etc. for context. So, even though I don't mind being tagged in an initial question, don't assume that I would be the one who would be able to answer...if that makes sense. For example, I don't know much about APIs and Canvas...so if someone tagged me in a question about the Canvas API, I wouldn't be able to provide much input.
As an aside...this is a question I probably should have branched off into its own separate question and then moved to the Meta Community Group...because these questions are more about how to do stuff here in the Community rather than how to do things in Canvas.
Hmm. Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I have already created a Front Page and now use it as the Course Home page, but I also want to create a “home page” for each module. Would I just create another Front Page and add it into the Modules section following the Course Home Page?
Hmm. Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I have already created a Front Page and now use it as the Course Home page, but I also want to create a “home page” for each module. Would I just create another Front Page and add it into the Modules section following the Course Home Page?
Within your "Pages" screen, you can only assign one content page as the "Front Page", and then you can use that page as your "Home" page. If you wanted to have a sort of "home" page for each of your modules, you'd probably want to create a separate content page in your "Pages" screen. Then, you could duplicate that page for each of your other modules and make any necessary changes for that particular page/module. How do I duplicate a page in a course?
Hope this helps.
I've added a new Page, but how do I move the page into the existing module? The Page shows up under "Pages," but I'm not sure how that page get interlaced with all the other pages/assignments in my module.
Howard, How do I add assignment types, pages, and files as module items? should help you accomplish that.
Ok, this IS helpful, but here’s what precipitated my problem.
I’m using a Front Page as the course Home Page. When I click on Home, the course opens up to the Front Page—that’s fine. but I’m having trouble navigating to an Introductory "Module Home page" which then links to the rest of the course. What happens now, is that after clicking on Home, (I put in an assignment link which takes students to all content in the first module.) the course seems to open up to the same Front Page that I used as the Home Page. I just added another Page, as you suggested to the module, but the actual course assignments, pages, etc. seems to be tied to the Front Page. Hope that’s not too confusing.
(BTW, how do I edit my email address in my profile. I seem to be getting emails from you guys in two different email accounts. When I tried to edit, the system will not let me edit my email address. )
Howard Davis...
I need to give access to the course instructors. What's the simplest way to create instructor-level accounts for them?
Normally, users in Canvas are first created at the account level. Many Canvas schools do this via a SIS (Student Information System) Import. For example, at our school we have the Banner SIS. One or our IT guys has a process/program in place to send new Canvas course shells and instructor/student enrollments from Banner to Canvas. This takes any manual work on our end adding courses and users one by one. Here is a link to all the SIS Guides.
If you are only adding a few additional people to your Canvas environment at this time, you can manually do this as an administrator. How do I add users to an account? Once you have created the users in your Canvas environment, then you can go into the course(s) to add them as a student, instructor, etc. (When you initially create a user in Canvas...that's all they are...a user. You don't specify what role they are in until you assign them to a course.) How do I add users to a course?
I hope this information will be of help to you, Howard.
Actually, it seems like I can add someone by clicking on the + People link. I can’t seem to find “Administrator” level access. We’re not using a SIS system, but will probably be manually adding each student by using his email address. Is there a problem w/ this approach?
Actually, it seems like I can add someone by clicking on the + People link. I can’t seem to find “Administrator” level access. We’re not using a SIS system, but will probably be manually adding each student by using his email address. Is there a problem w/ this approach?
I probably should have asked this before, but are you using the Free for Teachers (FFT) version of Canvas (from what I understand does not have an Administrator area), or are you using a paid version of Canvas? I may need to bring in someone who knows more about how to do enrollments with a FFT account if that is what you are using? All info I've been providing to you has been for the paid version of Canvas.
Using FFT (for now)
So does FFT have Administrator (level) access? I need to add the instructors to our draft course, and I need to DELETE one person.
Hi Howard
Chris Hofer asked me to help you on this one.
FFT does not include admin functionality or an admin area. You can learn more at Canvas Account Comparison
However, all "People" functions work, so you should be able to add and remove users from an FFT course. Learn more at......
There are some peculiarities to FFT, so I would also suggest checking out....
I hope all of this helps,
Kelley
Yes this helps. Thanks. Who knew there were so many options for "deletion"?
Howard Davis...
The screens you are seeing for setting up your assignment are going to look a bit different than they would for a student. For example, it wouldn't really make sense for you to submit the assignment via your role because you are the instructor. Thankfully, Instructure provides a "Student View" so you can see what the assignment will look like from a student's point of view. How do I view a course as a test student using Student View? So, create your assignment making sure that you have all your settings the way you want, and then use the Student View to see what it looks like. Here are some additional Guides for students on how to submit assignments ... based on the kinds of assignment types you are allowing:
How do I submit an online assignment?
How do I submit a text entry assignment?
How do I submit a media file as an assignment submission?
How do I submit an assignment on behalf of a group?
How do I submit a peer review to an assignment?
How do I upload a file as an assignment submission in Canvas?
How do I upload a file from Google Drive as an assignment submission in Canvas?
How do I submit a cloud assignment with Google Drive?
How do I upload a file from Microsoft Office 365 as an assignment submission?
How do I submit a cloud assignment with Microsoft Office 365?
Also, these video tutorials for Students is a good resource:
Assignments Overview (Students)
Assignment Submissions (Students)
I hope this information will be of help to you, Howard.