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Canvas guide

Assignments
This guide covers creating a new assignment in Canvas

Creating a new assignment


In Course Navigation, click the Assignments link. To create a new assignment, click the Add Assignment
button. Once you have created the assignment you can place the assignment in context within the
Canvas module.
Canvas has different submission types:
• No Submission is when you do not want students to submit an assignment in Canvas. This can be
used to create extra columns in the Gradebook, or when you want to create an assignment that
involves multiple scores. Submission Type does not apply to Not Graded assignments.
• Online is when you want students to submit their assignments using Canvas.
• On Paper is when you want students to submit an assignment to you but not through Canvas.
This assignment type applies to traditional face-to-face courses or hybrid courses when you
want the assignment turned in during class, but you still want to create a column in the Canvas
Gradebook for grading purposes.
• External Tool is when you want students to submit their assignments using an external app (LTI)
enabled for your course. You must enter a URL for the external tool.
See the Canvas Community Guide for information on how to add or edit details in an assignment.

Recommended options
For most assignments on Canvas, we recommend using the Online submission type.



Text Entry: Students can 
File Uploads: Students

submit their assignment can upload a file or take a
directly in the Rich Content photo with their webcam
Editor. to fulfill the assignment.
We recommend using the
‘file upload’ option for most
online submissions, as this


Website URLs: Students can allows staff to annotate
submit a URL that fulfills the on a students work using
assignment. the Canvas SpeedGrader.
DocViewer annotations are
not available for text entry,
website URL, or media


Media Recordings: Students recording submissions.
can submit an audio or
video recording that fulfills
the assignment. They can
either record new media 

Student Annotation: Students can annotate
or upload existing media. a file uploaded by an instructor. The
Video and audio uploads to annotated document is submitted as the
Canvas can be up to 500 MB. student’s assignment submission. We
recommend using another online entry
type for students who may not be able to
annotate a document.

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Canvas guide Assignments

Submission Attempts:



We recommend allowing students
‘Unlimited’ attempts (up until the due
date) for Assignments on Canvas, to

 allow students to revise and edit their
submissions based on the Turnitin
similarity report generated.

Enabling Turnitin’s Plagiarism framework


Turnitin is an option in the assignment settings. There is not an additional Turnitin submission
portal to set up. Once you select Turnitin for the plagiarism review in your assignment settings,
the student will submit via Turnitin. When a student submits to an assignment, they will receive
a green circle to indicate their submission is complete. Students will no longer receive an email
confirmation of their submission. Students can follow the AskUON instructions to access their
similarity score.
When you are grading student submissions, you will find the Turnitin similarity report through
SpeedGrader, or directly from the Grades section.

How to enable Turnitin on an Assignment in Canvas?


When editing an assignment, scroll down to find the ‘Plagiarism Review’ settings within the
Assignment settings to enable the Turnitin plagiarism review checker.

Recommended options for Turnitin


Select ‘Turnitin’ from the drop-down
menu at the top which will enable the
automatic Turnitin settings.

 
To allow students to see their Turnitin
similarity report after submitting an
assignment, select ‘immediately’ in the
‘Show report to students’ drop-down
menu.

Publishing the assignment


 s an instructor, you can publish or unpublish an assignment in a course. Unpublished
A
assignments are invisible to students and excluded from grade calculations.

 
To publish an assignment, click the
assignment’s Publish button. The button
will change from grey to green.

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Canvas guide Assignments

Adding the assignment to a module


You can add an existing assignment or a create a new assignment in a course module.
When you add items to a module, please be aware that the status of the module overrides the
state of the individual module items, ie the module must be published for students to access
the assignment within the module.

Hiding and releasing results


To release the assignment results and feedback to students all at the same time, you will need
to change the ‘Grade Posting Policy’ within your course.
Posting policies determine grade visibility for students. With an automatic grade posting policy,
all assignment grades are visible to students as soon as they are entered in the gradebook. With
a manual course grade posting policy, all assignment grades remain hidden from student view by
default until you post grades for each assignment.
Note: Manual Grade Posting Policy will not apply retrospectively after assignment grades have
already been entered.
To change or check your Grade Posting Policy and to choose whether to post to everyone or
just graded students please review our Grades in Canvas resource.

Need more help with Canvas Assignments?


The Canvas guides are a great place to find out more about Canvas Assignments.

Where to get Learning Technologies Canvas


Canvas support 4055 8999 • Login to Canvas and access
the Canvas Support Centre
LDTI have lots of (Monday – Friday, 8am to 5pm)
by selecting Help from the
support options Email Canvas dashboard menu
available to staff [email protected]
• Canvas self-help guides
SharePoint
• Canvas Community
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