This article is for faculty who want to grade group assignments and discussions in Canvas. To learn how to create groups in a course, view the first article in this series: Creating Groups in Canvas.
Article Overview
1. Viewing Group Home Pages
Students cannot visit other groups' pages. Faculty will be able to view all course groups' home pages. To do so, go to (1) People and choose (2) a group set. Then (3) click on the three-dot menu to the right of a group.
Clicking on the three-dot menu will open a small menu with the option to Visit Group Homepage. Click on this button to view what your students have created.
Group members will be able to use their home page to create announcements, pages, discussions, files, synchronous meetings using BigBlueButton, and collaborative Google files using Collaborations. As faculty, you can also create in this area.
If you would like to be able to monitor group participation, encourage your students to use their group Discussions page to plan their group assignments.
To quickly view several groups' home pages, open the Switch Group drop down menu and select the next group.
2. Creating and Viewing Group Assignment Submissions
Students can submit text, files, and URLs (website links) for group assignments. Faculty cannot create group assignments using third-party tools, like Turnitin, GoReact, Google Cloud, or most publisher tools. Faculty can ask groups to submit a single URL from some of these websites: Students can create Docs, Sheets, and Slides using their Google Accounts or by using Collaborations and then share the URL for the file. Students and instructors can use Turnitin Draft Coach to check similarity scores for group assignments.
From the Course Navigation Menu, choose Assignments. You can also create an assignment within a module.
Click + Assignment to create a new assignment.
Add (1) an assignment name, (2) description, (3) value, and, if necessary, (4) assignment group.
(1) Choose a submission type that is compatible with groups. No submission, On Paper, and Online allow group submissions; External Tools does not. If desired, (2) choose a submission limit.
Select This is a group assignment. Then use the Group Set drop down menu to choose a group set that you have made. If you haven't made your group set, create one using New Group Category before continuing or follow these directions. Be sure to create groups within the group set before publishing the assignment.
(1) Set a due date and availability dates. (2) Select Save or Save and Publish.
Canvas allows faculty to create group assignments that are graded by group or individually. By default, group members receive the same score. If faculty change a group grade for one student, the grade will change for the other group members. By checking the Assign Grades to Each Student Individually box, faculty will see a group submission for group members but will assign a grade to each student. Learn more about group assignments that are graded by group in Section 2.1 and group assignments that are graded individually in Section 2.2.
2.1. Groups Assignments That Are Graded by Group
The following example shows an assignment that has limited submission attempts and students are graded by group. Note that in this example grades are not assigned to each student individually: All group members will receive the same grade, and if one student's score is changed, the scores will change for the other members of the group.
To view submissions to a group assignment, go to Grades. Select the three-dot kebab menu in the assignment column and choose Speedgrader.
From Speedgrader, (1) you can assign a score in the Grade out of box. This grade will push to all students in this group. If you allowed multiple submissions, (2) you can use the Submission to view drop down menu to find earlier submissions.
You can switch to another group's submission by using the Group drop down menu.
If you decide that you would like to give students individual grades for a group assignment, you can check the assignment setting to Assign grades to each student individually even after students have made submissions.
2.2. Groups Assignment That Are Graded Individually
Group assignments can also be graded individually. In the following example, the same submission will appear for all members in a group in Speedgrader, but faculty will need to enter a score for each student.
Select (1) This is a Group Assignment and (2) Assign Grades to Each Student Individually. (3) Then choose the group set. You can create a new group set using the New Group Category button, but be sure to create groups within the group set before publishing the assignment.
Select other assignment options, scroll down, and select Save or Save & Publish if you are ready for students to see the assignment.
Once one student in a group submits a group assignment, a paper icon will appear for all group members in the gradebook. In Speedgrader, the same submission will appear for group members. To access Speedgrader from the gradebook, hover your mouse over the assignment name and select the three-dot kebab menu.
Select Speedgrader.
The same group submission will appear in Speedgrader for all group members, but faculty will need to assign each student a grade. For example, giving this student a grade of 8 will not populate this grade in the gradebook for other students in this group.
3. Viewing Group Discussion Responses
3.1. Reviewing Creating Group Discussions
If you have already created a group discussion, skip to Section 3.2.
To create a group discussion, choose Discussions from the Course Navigation Menu. On the Discussions page, select +Discussion.
Add the discussion's name and prompt.
3.2. Viewing Group Discussions
(1) Select Discussions from the Course Navigation Menu. (2) Then choose a discussion by clicking on its name.
To make a group discussion, you must choose a group set. It is possible to choose a group set that does not have groups in it; in this situation, the discussion will function for students as a whole-class discussion and faculty will not be able to view individual replies until grading settings have been adjusted.
Your initial discussion post will appear first. Responses will appear below; you may need to select the replies link to view all replies. Use the groups icon to change to another group.
To grade replies, select the three-dot kebab menu in the right corner of a response and then choose Speedgrader. You an also access Speedgrader by selecting this discussion on the Grades page.
In Speedgrader, you can view an individual student's replies and (1) give the student a grade. Students receive individual grades for group discussions. (2) Use the arrows or the drop down menu to give grades to other students in the class. To see the group's full discussion, (3) select the link view the full group discussion.
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