At Illinois Tech, assessments and grading are essential components of the learning experience, providing students with the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and progress while giving instructors valuable insights into student performance. Through Canvas, instructors can create assignments and quizzes, add rubrics for transparent grading criteria, and manage all grading in the intuitive Gradebook. Turnitin, integrated within Canvas, ensures academic integrity by offering plagiarism detection through Similarity Reports and provides tools to detect AI-generated content. With these tools, faculty can streamline the assessment process, from creating and distributing assignments to grading and giving feedback, all within one platform.
Benefits of Creating Assessments and Grading in Canvas
- Efficient and Streamlined Process: Canvas simplifies the creation and management of assessments, allowing instructors to easily assign tasks and quizzes, set due dates, and grade submissions within the same platform.
- Improved Feedback: With rubrics and automated grading features, instructors can provide consistent, transparent, and timely feedback to students, helping them understand where they excel and where improvement is needed.
- Enhanced Student Engagement: Clear grading criteria and the use of diverse assessment types help motivate students to stay engaged and actively participate in their learning.
- Maintaining Academic Integrity: Turnitin’s plagiarism detection tools help ensure that student work is original, maintaining the high standards of academic honesty at Illinois Tech.
- Accessibility and Flexibility: The mobile-friendly Canvas platform allows students to complete assessments and view their grades from any device, ensuring flexibility and continuous access to their coursework.
This page provides comprehensive guidance on the following essential topics, helping you make the most of Canvas's powerful assessment and grading features:
- Create an Assignment
- Create a Quiz
- Assign Multiple Due Dates/Times to an Assignment
- Manually Post Grades
- Moderate a Student's Quiz
- Add Rubrics
- Gradebook Overview
- Turnitin Assignments
- Turnitin Quick Submit
- Turnitin Similarity Report
- Turnitin and AI
As we continue to innovate and enhance our academic processes, Canvas will serve as a valuable tool for both instructors and students at Illinois Tech. With its robust set of features, assessments and grading are no longer just tasks but opportunities to support learning, foster engagement, and ensure academic integrity. Stay tuned for ongoing updates and new resources to further improve the way we assess and grade at Illinois Tech!
If you have any question, please contact supportdesk@iit.edu.