Introduction

Sometimes it is desirable to focus on one student submission at a time, and SpeedGrader allows you to do that. You can use SpeedGrader to provide textual, video, or audio comments/feedback to a given submission, markup uploaded documents, and even utilize a rubric in the grading process to ensure that your grading remains consistent across submissions and aligns directly with the requirements outlined within the rubric. This page provides you with the resources necessary to get the most out of SpeedGrader.

On This Page:

Access SpeedGrader
Grade an Assignment or Quiz with SpeedGrader
Provide Feedback with SpeedGrader
Use a Rubric to Grade Student Work

Access SpeedGrader

SpeedGrader can be accessed in multiple ways. Read the following tutorials to learn how to access the SpeedGrader from various parts of your course:

How do I get to SpeedGrader from an Assignment, Quiz, or Graded Discussion?

How do I get to SpeedGrader from the Gradebook?

Grade an Assignment or Quiz with SpeedGrader

Watch a video or read a tutorial to learn how to use SpeedGrader to view, grade, and comment on assignments:

For Quizzes that include only one or two questions that you must grade manually, such as essay questions, it may be desirable to grade each student's answer to those questions in succession instead of having to scroll to that particular question every time you switch from one student to another. SpeedGrader allows you to do that: read the below tutorial to find out how:

How do I grade one Quiz question at a time in SpeedGrader?

For quizzes that are graded automatically, you may still need to access and modify individual quiz results. Read the following two tutorials to learn how to view quiz results and regrade a quiz as needed:

How do I view student quiz results?

How do I regrade a Quiz?

Provide feedback with SpeedGrader

You can provide feedback for students in SpeedGrader in a number of ways. In the comments section of any online submission, you can provide feedback in the form of a text comment, an attached file, audio recording, or even a short video comment recorded on the fly directly in Canvas. Additionally, if the submission is a PDF or Word document, you can use Canvas's native markup tools in DocViewer to provide annotated comments directly on the submission document within Canvas. Read the tutorials below to learn how to get the most out of these feedback tools:

How do I leave feedback for my students in SpeedGrader?

How do I add annotated comments in student submissions using DocViewer in SpeedGrader?

Use a rubric to grade student work

Follow the steps in these tutorials to grade an assignment with a rubric and to provide feedback on student work using free-form comments within a rubric (see section 5d in this course for more in-depth discussion of rubrics):

How do I use a Rubric to grade an Assignment?

How do I use free-form comments instead of ratings in a Rubric?

Provide this tutorial to students to help them learn how to access the rubric after their assignment has been graded:

How do I view Rubric results for my Assignment?

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