Header image We’re continuing our work to improve the instructor assignment experience in Canvas, and we’d love your input. We’ve created a short Maze survey where you can: Explore different data visualization options we’re consideringShare general f...

We are enabling the Assignment Enhancements feature option in the near future and have a couple of questions for clarification: Is there a way for the “View Rubric” section to remain collapsed by default rather than expanded? Is there a particular ...

I have been using the free draw annotation tool for many years to mark "high quality" points made in student work.  Just recently, I have discovered that each single mark is requiring a "confirmed checkmark" or it disappears.  This is extremely ineff...

We recently enabled the feature: Assignment Enhancements - Student.  Previously, the student submission options included 3rd party options regardless of what options (url, file upload, online, text) were selected in the assignment settings. Now, with...

Some reflections: First, I love that it's been built at all. It can start some really meaningful dialogues about metacognition and assessment literacy. Second, it needs some more development work yet, such as: There's currently no way to make this a ...

While evaluating Assignment Enhancement, my institution came across the following improvements when using peer review. If a student visits the page for making a peer review before they have made their own assignment submission, they get a clear messa...

While evaluating Assignment Enhancement, my institution came across the following general improvements of the user interface for students. It is not obvious to a student that they have only uploaded a document and not submitted yet. The Submit assign...

My institution is evaluating if we should turn Assignment Enhancements on or not. One of the things we have come across is the following. The progress indicator displayed in the student UI usually have 3 steps. In the first 2, the current status is d...

Header Image We’re working to resolve a bug related to the Assignment Enhancements – Student feature and want to quickly validate our proposed fix with the community. The Issue When students have no remaining attempts on an assignment, they’re curren...

It seems with Assignment Enhancements-Student feature option enabled, students cannot view instructor annotation feedback on previous attempts on assignments. They can only view the feedback on the most recent attempt. This seems counterintuitive to ...

In an effort to create a more engaging teaching and learning experience, educators have looked for ways to offer students more structured self assessment opportunities directly within Canvas LMS.   Once available, educators using both Enhanced Rubric...

Hi, We have a tool that uses LTI 1.1 to pass back grades of an assignment. The tool also attaches an ltiLaunchURL to be shown when the student accesses the grade in the gradebook, so the student can look at the feedback (per https://github.com/instru...

Hi, We've been using the Assignment Enhancements for some time and love it.  We also use TurnItIn LTI integration for most of our summative submissions for similarity report, but continue to use SpeedGrader for Feedback and Marking of submitted work....

Great news for instructors using external tools for assignment submissions. The February 12th Canvas Deploy will include a key update that brings support for External Tool assignments within Assignment Enhancements for Students. You can now leverage ...

Hello! I had a student come into our office today asking for help with an assigned peer review for an oral communications course. The assignment required students to create a presentation and either film a video presenting it or record audio presenti...

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Please tell me my school is not the only one with teachers grumbling about the new changes to the assignment process? 1 - Submission Type automatically changes the Assignment NameAt first, I was incredibly irritated that if I attach anything to the S...

The assignments enhancements only displays the points possible in the submission window for assignments that specifically have points. If the assignment is set to 'percentage' or any of the other options, the possible score does not display in the s...

Problem statement:When you have an assignment in Canvas and want to use peer review, in the previous assignment interface, students had the option to download the original submitted file when peer reviewing a student. If the submitted file was in the...

The assignment enhancements are awesome for students, but it is causing a problem for instructors. With the assignment enhancements enabled the instructor has to switch to the prior submission to see comments that were made on a student's work. Instr...

Issue: I notice that Assignment Enhancements are not applied to any assignments created using Google Assignments LTI 1.3. Proposed Solution: Since we now have the option of grading Google Assignments in SpeedGrader along with attaching rubrics, it wo...

Greetings everyone! In studying student interactions with instructor feedback in the LMS, I found a peer reviewed article called “Responding to Student Writing Online: Tracking Student Interactions with Instructor Feedback in a Learning Management Sy...

I'm newish to Canvas and wondered if the Mastery Paths could be used for contract grading (i.e. do X, get a B, do X+Y, get an A). I'm pretty progressive in my classes and assessment and am struggling to find a more holistic way to use this function o...