SpeedGrader

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General Settings

The left side of the menu includes general settings and options.

1. To return to the Gradebook, click the Gradebook

2. To post or hide the assignment, click the Visibility

3. To view SpeedGrader settings, click the Settings. SpeedGrader settings include:

4. Options, which allows you to select student list sorting options and enable anonymous grading.

5. Keyboard Shortcuts, which opens a list of keyboard shortcuts for SpeedGrader. You can also press the Shift+Question Mark keys simultaneously.

6. Help, which opens the Instructor SpeedGrader guides.

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Assignment Details

The center of the menu bar includes assignment information and overall grading information. Assignment information includes [1] the name of the assignment, [2] assignment due date, and [3] the name of the course.

To view the assignment details, click the name of the assignment. The assignment details page also lets you download all student submissions for the assignment.  

To return to the Course Home Page, click the name of the course.

Grading information includes assignment statistics, including the number of assignments that have been graded out of the total number of students in the course [4] and the average score and percentage [5]. You can use this information to keep track of your grading progress.

The right side of the menu bar includes the student list for the assignment. SpeedGrader opens the assignment for the first student listed in the student list, arranged alphabetically by last name. If you have activated student view, the Test Student will be shown at the end of the student list. The student list also displays the status of each student's submission. You can also use the student list to find student submissions.

Once you have selected a student, the student's submission displays in the preview window.

Depending on the assignment and submission type, the SpeedGrader preview window may vary. For example, a website URL submission type will appear in the main body of SpeedGrader with the option to open the URL in a new tab. Some website URL submissions cannot be viewed in Canvas and must be viewed in a new tab. Media submissions may display as an embedded file in SpeedGrader or only display as a downloadable file.

To provide comments on document submissions, you can:

• Use Canvas DocViewer to mark up .pdf, .doc/.docx, and .ppt/.pptx assignments directly in SpeedGrader. SpeedGrader may take up to ten minutes after an assignment is submitted to display a document that supports DocViewer.

• Download the submission, put feedback on the document, and re-upload the submission.

For each student, SpeedGrader has five areas:

1. View student submissions (text entries, website URLs, media recordings, and/or file uploads); preview supported file types in Canvas DocViewer; review other file format submissions using the document previewer or Google Preview

2. Assign a grade based on your preferred assessment method (points or percentage)

3. View Rubric to assist with grading (if one is added to the assignment)

4. View comments created by you or the student about the assignment

5. Create text, video, and/or audio commentary for the student

Note: You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate SpeedGrader. To view a window with a list of keyboard navigation shortcuts, press the Shift+Question Mark keys simultaneously on your keyboard.