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Peer Review Assignment Best Practices for Instructors

Canvas has a built-in Peer Review tool that allows instructors to assign student submissions to each other for feedback. This feature can be enabled for groups and can be set up to be anonymous. 

If the built-in tool in Canvas doesn’t meet your needs, there may be other options . 

Before You Start

We strongly recommend working with your LSP if you want to create a peer review assignment in Canvas to create the best experience for you and your students.

• Consider providing clear instructions or a rubric in your assignment for students on what a peer review is in Canvas , how they will grade, and how they can view their feedback .
• We recommend reiterating to students that it is important that they submit on time so they don’t hold the assignment up for others in the course.
• Students who haven’t submitted an assignment can no longer be invited to review others’ work. If students don’t submit, they can’t participate. 

How to Create a Peer Review Assignment in Canvas

• If this will be a group assignment, you will see an additional option to “Allow intra-group peer reviews”. Select this if you would like Canvas to select a member of the same group for that student to review.

Note – Canvas assigns peer reviews to individuals, EVEN if it’s a Group Project assignment. The only project member who will see feedback is the one the peer reviewer was assigned to. It will not be visible to other project members.

• If you select assign reviews manually , instructors will need to go in and pair up the students after students have finished submitting their assignments.
• Instructors should provide a buffer for students to allow for late submissions and not use the same time as the due date of the assignment.
• Once all additional settings have been configured, save and publish the assignment.
• Students will receive an email and a to do list item once they have been assigned a peer to review. Students will not receive a peer to review until they submit the assignment.

Keep in Mind

• We recommend using the Manually Assign Peer Reviews option (see screenshot below) to assign peer reviews later if they need to be done at a specific time. 

• “ If a student has not submitted the assignment or submits the assignment after the due date, the student will not automatically be assigned a peer review and you must manually assign one. ”
• For assignments with Turnitin enabled, only the original student can see the originality score, not the assigned reviewer. Reviewers won’t be able to assess this information, since it isn’t visible to them.

Known Issues 

The manual drag and drop option to assign peer reviews has not been reliable . For the best experience, we recommend using the “assign peer reviews now” option for this need instead.

• Automatic (randomly assigned) peer reviews may take up to an hour to be assigned to students. We recommend letting your students know that there may be a delay before submissions are available to them to review.
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Other Peer Review Options

• Wharton instructors – contact the Wharton Courseware team ( [email protected] ) for a full list of your options for peer review assignments. 
• If you’re already using Perusall in your course, consider using Perusall’s peer review functions . 
• For group assignments: consider creating a Canvas discussion board or using Ed Discussion to allow students to share feedback with the entire group.

Please contact [email protected] or your Local Service Provider for assistance. 

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2023

Use Peer Review in Canvas to Build Your Learning Community

by Michael Hernandez | Sep 16, 2022 | Canvas , Canvas Features/Functions , How-tos

It can be challenging to effectively communicate expectations for student work and build a class community–whether in person or online–that promotes meaningful learning. However, Peer Review in Canvas can help you do both!

How Peer Review can Support Your Teaching

By using Peer Review, you can help students get feedback for revision(s) before they submit projects, and you can assess the work of your students as reviewers. Students can leave comments and write global feedback on work that’s been submitted for review by their classmates.

Additionally, if you’re currently using Canvas Rubrics to share your expectations and assess student work, Peer Review can support that work even further by allowing students to give feedback using the same clear expectations you set out in your rubric. Even if you’re new to the practice of grading with rubrics, this process may help you to flag any areas where assignment expectations are unclear to students or where additional instruction may be helpful. (If you’re interested in learning how Canvas Rubrics can help you share expectations and help students thrive in your course, see our previous blog post on rubrics.)

How to Configure Peer Review

To set up peer review in Canvas, go to Assignments within your Canvas course. You can either add the process to an existing assignment or create a new assignment. When you’re editing the assignment, scroll down to the section titled Peer Reviews . ( Important: make sure the submission type is set to “Online.” )

Once there, you’ll have two settings to configure:

• Manual assignment is useful if you have specific pairs in mind. You’ll have the option to choose as many classmates’ submissions to assign to each student as you like.
• Automatic assignment allows you to designate a specific number of submissions for each student to review and let Canvas do the rest. If this is a group assignment, you’ll need to specify whether students within the same group should be matched.
• Once you’ve saved your selection, this cannot be changed . You will have to make a new assignment if you change your mind.
• While students will not know each other’s names in the peer review process, instructors and TAs will have access to that information.
• Note that Canvas DocViewer (Canvas’ built-in tool for document annotation) does not work for anonymous peer review. For more information on DocViewer, check out Canvas’ video overview .

Associating Rubrics with your Peer Review Assignment

If you choose to associate a rubric with the assignment, students will be able to submit their review by filling out the rubric. If you’d like to add a rubric, the process is as follows:

• Open your assignment page.

• If you’d like to create a new rubric, you can fill in your criteria, rating levels, and other rubric settings there.
• A menu allowing you to sort by course and preview individual rubrics will appear.
• When you’ve found the one you want, select it, scroll down in the preview, and click Use this Rubric .

A couple of notes to keep in mind:

• Whether you choose to use a rubric or not, students are required to submit their own work before they leave feedback for another student.
• Grades assigned by peer reviewers using your rubric do not go into your gradebook. Instructors still assign grades manually.

For further technical guidance on setting up and administering the peer review process in your class, check out this guide from Canvas . If your students require guidance on how to complete peer review, you can refer them to the student guide or video from Canvas. You can also contact ATS for an individual consultation or visit our office hours .

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If you’re looking for additional support using Peer Review in Canvas, please consider signing up for our Canvas Peer Review workshop . Visit the Academic Technology Solutions Workshop Schedule to see a calendar view of all current workshops.You can also consult with ATS or drop by our Office Hours .

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Canvas Peer Review Guide for Students

What exactly are peer reviews?

Peer reviews are assignments where students receive another’s paper, make comments and annotate, and return to its original owner. They’re a tool used by faculty to improve student writing, feedback skills, and to clarify learning goals and assignment details.

However, they’re not always so clear. Through several conversations with students, we’ve learned two important things:

• Students need clear expectations.
• Rubrics are essential.

With this in mind, the Office of Digital Learning has prepared the following student guide to Canvas peer reviews. We hope this will help you to understand how Canvas can mediate the peer review process.

Introduction to Canvas Peer Review

Your instructor may ask you to do a peer review once you’ve submitted your assignment on Canvas. In order to locate the peer review, you can use the following steps:

• Click on the Assignments link in navigation.

2. Click the title of your selected assignment.

3. Under Assigned Peer Reviews, you will see the review assigned to you (sometimes anonymous). Click on the student name or review available.

4. To download the submission, click the name of the assignment. For annotating the document within Canvas, select View Feedback.

5. From this window, you can add comments, highlight (and even write!) directly to submission.

• To leave a comment, click on the “ballon” icon.
• For highlight, click on the next icon of a “pen.” From here you can also leave comments similar to Microsoft Word.
• To add text, click on the “T.”
• For writing, on computer or via an iPad, use the “paint brush” icon.

6. If you’ve been assigned to review via a rubric, you do not have to annotate the document for it to be considered “completed.” However, please follow your instructors instructions on how to complete the peer review! To use the rubric, click on the top right corner, “Show Rubric.” When you are finished, click the “Save Comment” button.

7. Once you have completed your annotation, rubric, etc., feel free to share an assignment comment for the entire document. This is often required if there is not an attached rubric. This is where you can re-upload your comments if you chose to annotate the document outside of Canvas.

8. Don’t forget to click save!

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We hope this student guide has been helpful. If you get stuck, please do not hesitate to reach out to candlerdigitallearning [at] emory [dot] edu . We would be delighted to help you!

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Canvas for Students: View Feedback on Assignments

Instructors give various kinds of feedback on assignments, quizzes and graded discussions in Canvas. Students can access this information through Grades in the course navigation menu for each course. For an overview on how to use the Grades page as a student, read How Do I View My Grades in a Current Course ? However, the previous Canvas article does not show you how to find annotated feedback that may have been left on an assignment. This article describes how to find annotated feedback left directly in/on your assignment. 

Viewing annotated instructor feedback on an assignment

Your instructor may choose to include comments directly in an online text or uploaded file submissions using inline comments or annotations. This feedback is different from the general assignment comments that you see next to the grade of the assignment. If your instructor has used this type of feedback, you will see a View Feedback button on the assignment Submission Details page. To access this specific feedback: 

• Click the title of the assignment from the Grades area to get to the Submission Details page.
• Select View Feedback . 
• Scroll through the document viewer to see all feedback.

See one of the following resources for more information on how to view this feedback:

• View Assignment Feedback in Canvas (video; 1:31)
• How do I view annotation feedback comments from my instructor directly in my assignment submission ? 

Viewing general comments and rubrics from Grades

Instructors may decide to use a rubric for grading Quizzes, Assignments, and graded Discussions. Those comments are visible from the Grades area for the student. 

On the Grades page, the score column displays the assignment score and total score in a single column. Students will see an unread indicator (blue dot) on the feedback button when a new comment is added to an assignment or a rubric. To view feedback, click the View Feedback button to display comments in a pop-out tray.

For more specific instructions on how to access a rubric for various types assessments, see the following resources:

• Finding Feedback in Canvas (video: 2:27)
• How do I view rubric results for an assignment?
• How do I view a rubric for a quiz?
• How do I View a Rubric for My Graded Discussion?

Viewing feedback from student Peer Reviews

A peer review assignment using the Canvas Peer Review tool, enables students to provide feedback on another student's assignment submission. If your instructor has set up an assignment to use peer review, you can access the feedback given to you by another peer from a couple of areas in the course site. See one of the following resources for specific instructions:

• Viewing Feedback from Canvas Peer Review (video; 4:04)
• Where Can I Find My Peer's Feedback for a Peer Reviewed Assignment ?

Viewing assignment feedback in the student mobile app

You can also view assignment feedback from the student mobile app. Read the following instructions based on what kind of device you use to access the mobile app:

• How do I see assignment feedback on an Android device ?
• How do I see assignment feedback on an iOS device ?

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Canvas allows students to electronically peer review classmates' assignments or discussions. Instructors may configure the peer review option to automatically create review groups, or they may manually assign peer groups. Whenever students submit an assignment or post to a discussion area that requires peer review, they will see a list of their assigned reviews. Clicking a name on the list will bring them directly to a review pane with their peer's draft or discussion postings. Instructors can access a peer review overview screen that indicates which students have completed assigned reviews.

Some Necessary Considerations:

The peer review feature on Canvas is a useful tool that can facilitate our work with writing in English courses whether in or out of the classroom. But, there is one notable caveat: developers have allowed only one due date for each assignment and discussion. Thus, peer review can only be set up one time within an assignment or discussion space.

This view of peer review as a one-time activity for each assignment may be contrary to the way many instructors administer peer review. However, you can absolutely use the tool to support many variations of peer review with a basic knowledge of how it works. The following information presents both considerations and steps to help achieve your instructional goals with this activity.

Before Setting Up Peer Review On Canvas:

You must first decide what type of peer review you would like to do.

This includes thinking through:

• what you want to accomplish pedagogically (i.e. work on a particular skill, have peers provide holistic feedback, etc.),
• when in the writing process your peer review will occur (i.e. before/after students have turned in their papers or before/after students have received feedback, etc.),
• and how students will be completing the peer review (as an in-class activity, as homework, etc.).

All of these elements will impact what the best protocol is for setting up assignments and peer review on Canvas. Of course you do not have to have everything figured out at the start of the quarter, but before you move to the step of setting up peer review on Canvas at any time during the quarter, the following considerations are necessary. Most courses that have writing assignments will be using some type of drafting, be it formal or informal.

Because peer review might be part of your drafting and skill-building process, it is important you consider how to administer it with Canvas. If you are teaching a 100-level EWP course, you are using the feedback pathways (more information here ), where drafting might actually be built into your sequences. There are many ways that an instructor can use peer feedback to support the drafting process.

Below are a few potential ideas of how it might work in your class:

Single Draft Peer Feedback

Single draft, or “traditional” peer review might be considered to be one that occurs before a draft has been submitted to the instructor. Usually, the peer feedback will work to develop a piece of writing that will later be evaluated by the instructor. This could be a formal (for a grade) or informal (not for a grade) activity in your class. For a peer review to occur before the submission of the assignment, you will need to create two assignments. If you decide you would like more than one draft, you will need to create multiple assignments to support those drafts.

Multiple Drafts with Peer Feedback

Informal Peer Feedback

Your drafting process may be more informal and less structured. For example, you might be using a peer review for prewriting or a rough draft, meaning that you will not be evaluating this work. Students would continue revising based on their peer feedback and then submit their “final” draft to you. Of course if you are using the portfolio system, it is not “final”, but the official draft prior to the portfolio submission. In this case, you have two options. You can also set up multiple assignments (i.e. “Short Assignment 3 Rough Draft”, and “Short Assignment 3”). You can attach the peer review to the rough draft, or whatever you choose to name it.

Another option, however, would be to use the Discussion function rather than the Assignment function in Canvas. This could be particularly appropriate for focusing on a particular skill (i.e. claims, stakes), a brainstorming/prewriting type of peer review, or a “wildcard” peer review (usually toward the end of the quarter, where students can choose which of their pieces they want more feedback on). It might also be a good choice If you are planning to have students do the activity in class, and if there might be a value to students being able to see everyone’s feedback (this is not required in Discussion, but an option). Something else to keep in mind: If you choose to do a “rough draft” or to add an informal peer review to a discussion, you can change the grading setting to (complete/incomplete) so you are just checking for participation.

Below is an example of an informal peer feedback assignment:

Critical Questions/Response Instructions By noon on Monday, 6/10, briefly respond to 1-2 peers' blog entries, noting how they might build upon their existing analysis as they work toward Essay 2 and posing questions to help them do so. Has your peer made a claim he/she could apply to additional shots/scenes/elements of overall form? Has he or she discussed shots, scenes or patterns that could be examined via the lens of one of the Essay 2 topics? Your role is to help peers develop their ideas-in-progress further.

Additional Tips:

• When naming the titles of Assignments and Discussions , you can choose what you like, just be sure to remain clear and consistent with your students.
• You can and should use different types of peer review activities . This helps to keep students engaged and meet different learning styles.
• Students will need instructions from you on how to use the type of peer review you have selected in Canvas, and also a pedagogical explanation for the value of peer review. Remember that many students (especially at the 100-level) have not used peer review, and if they have, they still might have skepticism about its benefits. Peer review is not a self-supporting activity. Like anything other type of lesson, it requires instructions, guidance, and a transparency toward purpose and function (scaffolding).
• It is always important with any activity, but especially those utilizing technology to prepare for a contingency plan . This is especially a concern if you are conducting your peer review during class time. For example, if you are doing the peer review during class and have manually assigned, a student absence might create an issue. To help prevent this, you can try assigning 3 or 4 peer reviews to each student. That way, the likelihood of issues are reduced. Or, you can wait to do the assignments on the day of. Prepare a short activity (like a free-write) while you do this in class.
• There have been some glitches with the auto-assign function, so you may need to try that again if students can't access papers immediately . However, always be mindful of the time . If you are spending too much time trying to make a function work, consider an alternative plan. Other options include having students email one another, utilize the hard drive, or look on eachothers’ screens.Try to be prepared and use your best judgment in order to best meet the needs of your class.
• If you need advice on Peer review , either on thinking through it pedagogically or functionally on Canvas, please seek out the support of EWP’s CIC administrative staff Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges ([email protected]) and Mandy Hobmeier ([email protected]). You can also visit Canvas' instructor support guide or directly contact the Canvas help team ([email protected]).

Setting up Peer Review Within an Assignment on Canvas

How to set up peer review within an assignment:.

• Next, set the due date in the Assign Reviews section. Setting the due date is essential on Canvas. You MUST make the due date after assignment is due. You can put in a date if you want to, if you don’t, the peer reviews will be assigned right when students turn in papers. If you want to have them wait, set it, but it is not necessary. Canvas does not allow multiple due dates within a single assignment. Refer to the previous information to think through this. It may be appropriate to set up another assignment at this time. Once you have selected the Assign Reviews due date, proceed to setting the assignment's other information. Select For “ Everyone ” from the drop down menu. Select the due date, and the available from and available to sections. Then go to Update Assignment . For more information on how students can submit their peer feedback and view their peers’ feedback once given, go here and here .

Setting up Peer Review Within a Discussion on Canvas

How to set up peer review within a discussion:.

It is not necessary to use the formal peer review function if you want to have students give each other feedback on a discussion board. So long as you allow for threaded replies, you can have students informally respond to each other or even prompt them with more specific questions. However, if it is important for you to moniter, track, and grade peer reviews, you may want to use the Peer Review function within a Discussion.

• Next, decide whether or not you want everyone to view everyone’s feedback. If you want or do not mind all students viewing everyone else’s feedback as well as their work, all you need to do is set up a discussion area with instructions on who will read whose work and general guidelines for giving feedback. This might be helpful if you are trying to share or generate ideas or focus on a particular skill. But, length is also a consideration. If the assignments are more than 1-2 pages it is probably best for students not to view everyone’s.
• If you decide you want your students to see each other work, but not the feedback their peers receive, then use the Require Peer Reviews option and follow the same steps for peer review in the Assignments function above. You can enable the option for peer review by checking the Use for grading box.
• If you feel that creating one discussion area for submission/feedback or submission/peer review would be unwieldy, you may create two and set both up the same way.
• You may also want to make the grading type “ Complete/Incomplete ” rather than specific points so you can just give participation credit rather than evaluating.

Checking Progress and Viewing Completed Reviews

The Student View in Peer Review

1. Once students have been assigned their peer reviews, they will see a list of their assigned reviews :

2. Next, students will click on their peers' names to access their drafts.

3. From there, a document review screen will open. Students can click the preview icon to see their peer’s text and open Canvas’s in-text comment options .

4. Students are able to comment in multiple ways, the "Add a Comment " function allows them to include a brief note.

5. Students are also able to make comments directly on the draft by using Canvas'' “Comment” options, pictured below.

6. Once finished, students might want to attach a file (if appropriate), but will also need to save.

7. After saving, Canvas will display a confirmation message above your students' peer’s text. Note that they may have to refresh the page to see the message.

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How do I know if I have a peer review? 

• Canvas guide:  How do I know if I have a peer review assignment to complete?
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Assignment Peer Review

• Canvas guide:  How do I submit a peer review to an assignment?
• Canvas guide:  Where can I find my peers' feedback for peer reviewed assignments?

Discussion Peer Review

• Canvas guide:  How do I  submit a peer review to a discussion?
• Canvas guide:  Where can I find my peers' feedback for peer reviewed discussions?

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• Supporting and Using Feedback in Your Class

Updated on Jun 03, 2024

Your class facilitation may incorporate multiple forms and styles of feedback that support effective communication, collaboration, and mutual learning. Feedback opportunities between instructors and students may be categorized into various forms.

The chart below maps out various Canvas-integrated tools that can be used for each feedback type. This is not an exhaustive list but should be used as a reference for inspiration. 

Table of Contents

This article will address the following feedback types:

Instructor to Student

Student to student, student to self, student to instructor, instructor to instructor, instructor to self.

Tools for Instructor to Self Feedback are not typically part of the learning management system. The tools listed below are meant to be guidelines, activities, and opportunities for instructors to engage in self-feedback outside of the context of their Canvas course site. 

Assessments, Feedback and Grades

• Building Assessments in Canvas
• Creating an Assignment
• Creating a Media Recording Assignment
• Creating an Ungraded, No-Submission Assignment (Reading Assignment)
• Submitting a File to a Canvas Assignment on a Student's Behalf
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• Checking a Canvas Activity in Student View without Releasing It to Students
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• Turnitin: Assignment Settings Options
• Turnitin: Viewing the Similarity Report / Originality Score (Instructor Guide)
• Creating a Discussion Board
• Implementing Online Discussions
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• Strategies for Delivering Exams / Quizzes in Canvas
• Introducing New Quizzes
• New Quizzes (Vendor Guides)
• Quizzes (Vendor Guides)
• Submitting Audio / Video Feedback to a Student
• Grading Assignments Using the SpeedGrader
• Utilizing Anonymous Grading
• Accessing the SpeedGrader from the Gradebook
• Gradebook Overview and Features
• Understanding Gradebook Views and Filters
• Using the Grade Posting Policy
• Changing Grading Schemes / Grade Letter Ranges
• Creating Weighted Assignments Groups
• Importing Grades into Gradebook
• SpeedGrader (Vendor Guides)
• Rubrics (Vendor Guides)
• Gradebook (Vendor Guides)
• Feedback & Accessibility Barriers Tool: Overview
• Enabling / Viewing the Feedback & Accessibility Barriers Tool
• Mid-Semester Feedback: Overview
• Disabling / Enabling the Mid-Semester Feedback Tool in Your Canvas Course
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• Outcomes (Vendor Guides)

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How to Create a Peer Review Assignment Using FeedbackFruits in Canvas

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At a Glance

The Group Member Evaluation tool in FeedbackFruits streamlines the way students assess their peers’ collaboration skills. As the instructor, you specify the criteria your students will use to evaluate their peers’ contribution to group work. Groups are automatically synced from the People tool in Canvas to FeedbackFruits.

Additionally, you can require that students add comments to the feedback they have provided to their peers, thereby combining quantitative and qualitative feedback.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to create a peer review assignment using FeedbackFruits in your Canvas course.

Create Groups

If you’d like students to provide peer feedback to some or all of their group members, first you need to create your groups in your Canvas course:

• How do I add a group set in a course?
• How do I manually create groups in a group set?
• How do I manually assign students to groups?

Create a Peer Review Assignment

• Type the assignment title in the Assignment Name field [1]. If you created your assignment as an assignment shell, this field will be populated for you, but you can change it if necessary.

• Note: If you leave this field blank, you will not be able to publish/save the assignment. You can add a voice note or an attachment to the instruction if needed.
• Individually
• Individually: Students will individually get assigned to anyone.
• Note: This option is disabled if ‘as a group’ is chosen.
• Note: This option is disabled if ‘individually’ is chosen.

• Groups selected to participate (select the Group Set you’ve already created).

• To learn how to set up criteria, refer to Setting up feedback criteria (rubrics, scale ratings and comment criteria) .

• Reviewers will not be able to view or edit their reviews after this deadline passes.
• Leave the deadline blank to allow reviewers to view and/or edit their feedback indefinitely.

• If you want students to review all their group members, we recommend selecting All .

• Reviewer anonymity: Enabling this option will make reviewers anonymous. Reviewers will still see the name of the peer they are reviewing. Instructors can also see the name of the reviewer.
• New user interface design: Students use the new design for reviewing and reading feedback. This option is enabled by default and is recommended.
• Optional – Rate Reviewers: You can choose if you’d like students to rate their reviewers or reflect on it [1].

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Using assignments in Canvas provides a streamlined process for assigning homework and creating quizzes for students.  Canvas considers an ‘assignment’ to be anything that is graded, whether that be a quiz or homework assignment, and whether it’s delivered entirely online, paper-and-pencil, or is a participatory assignment with no actual deliverable.

This Quick Start guide will cover the creation of assignments where the student submits a file electronically, on paper, using an external tool such as Turnitin or Panopto , or where no submission is expected (e.g. class participation). See How to Create Tests and Quizzes for Your Canvas Course and Create and Manage Discussions for more information about using those tools as assignments.

1. In the Course Navigation menu, click the Assignments link.

2. Click “ +Assignment ” at the top right.

3. Write the assignment title and directions for students.

4. Assign the number of points available for the assignment.

5. Choose an “ Assignment Group” . Assignment groups are, in essence, a category of assignment. For more information about using Assignment Groups, see the Canvas guides regarding Assignments.

6. There are four submission types :

• No Submission: an activity where nothing will be collected from students (e.g. a participation grade)
• For the full details about the online assignment subtypes, (text entry, annotation, file upload, etc.), please see the official documentation .
• We have a recorded mini-webinar on annotation assignments, including assignment ideas, available on the Training Webinars page.
• On Paper: assignments/quizzes/activities that were written on paper and collected by the instructor
• External Tool: assignments submitted through a 3rd party tool that is integrated with Canvas, such as a textbook publisher’s website or Turnitin

7. Submission Attempts: You may allow unlimited submission attempts for Online assignments, or restrict attempts to one or more. When a student submits to an assignment they have already submitted to, the previous submission is retained as well, and the instructor may view both.

8. Group Assignments and Peer Reviews:  Assignments can be created as either a group assignment or peer review assignment.

9. Assign options- You can assign an assignment to your entire class, a specific student, and/or a section of your class. You can also set the due date and the availability dates (when your students can submit their assignment). Each section can have different due dates and availability dates.

10. If you are finished creating the assignment, click on “ Save & Publish “. If you are not finished creating the assignment, click on “ Save ” and you may come back and work on it more later without students having access to it.

Instructor Help for Assignments

Creating assignments.

• How do I create an assignment?
• How do I add a moderated assignment to be graded by multiple reviewers?
• How do I create an online assignment?
• How do I add or edit details in an assignment?
• How do I add or edit points for an assignment?
• What assignment types can I create in a course?
• How do I limit submission attempts for an assignment?
• How do I add an assignment that includes anonymous grading?
• How do I enable anonymous instructor annotations in student submissions?
• How do I import SCORM files as an assignment?
• How do I publish or unpublish an assignment as an instructor?

Managing Assignments

• How do I use the Assignments Index Page?
• Can a student resubmit Canvas assignments?
• How do I assign an assignment to everyone in a course?
• How do I assign an assignment to a course group?
• How do I assign an assignment to a course section?
• How do I assign an assignment to an individual student?
• How do I view differentiated assignments with different due dates in a course?
• How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates as an instructor?
• How do I delete an assignment?
• How do I duplicate an assignment?
• How do I move or reorder an assignment?
• How do I use Direct Share to copy an assignment to another course?
• How do I use Direct Share to send an assignment to another instructor?

Creating and Managing Peer Review Assignments

• How do I create a peer review assignment?
• How do I use peer review assignments in a course?
• How do I automatically assign peer reviews for an assignment?
• How do I manually assign peer reviews for an assignment?
• How do I view student peer review comments as an instructor?

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• How do I add an assignment using an external app?
• How do I create a cloud assignment with a Microsoft Office 365 file?

Using Assignment Groups

• How do I add an assignment group in a course?
• How do I create an assignment shell in an assignment group?
• How do I create rules for an assignment group?
• How do I move or reorder an assignment group?
• How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?

Grading Considerations

• How do I add a grading scheme to an assignment?
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• How do I upload all student submissions for an assignment?
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Getting Started with Canvas Assignments

• Last modification date Updated On July 26, 2024
• Categories: Assignments , Canvas , Uncategorized
• Categories: assessment , Getting Started , Grading

Canvas  Assignments  are a way for instructors to provide students opportunities to practice using the knowledge and skills they have gained or to assess student performance related to such knowledge and skills. (Creating an Assignment is the  only  way to create a new column in the Gradebook.)

In Canvas there are four basic  Submission Types  for assignments. The submission types include:

• No Submission : For assignments for which you are not collecting any content from the students.
• Text Entry : For students to enter text directly into a text box on Canvas.
• Website URL : For students to enter a URL (usually to a blog, video, podcast, etc.).
• Media Recordings : For students to upload or record media for submission.
• File Uploads : For students to upload files for submission ( Restrict Upload File Types  will allow you to limit which types of files may be submitted).
• On Paper : For assignments students will submit in person.
• External Tool : For assignments which students will submit through a third-party tool (such as Turnitin, Panopto Video Quiz, and PlayPosit).

Managing an Assignment

Managing assignment groups.

When getting started with Assignments, learn to

• Create an assignment shell with the Canvas guide  How do I create an assignment? 

If you select  Peer Reviews Appear Anonymously , annotation tools in  SpeedGrader  will become unavailable.

If you change the  Assign To  area from  Everyone  to select students after submissions have already begun, and do not have a second set of Assign To dates, submissions from unassigned students will disappear.

• Published assignments are visible as existing outside of availability dates, but students cannot see the details.
• If looking to update the due and/or availability dates on multiple assignments, see   How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates as an instructor?
• If choosing the option to make an assignment a  Group Assignment : If only assigning to specific groups, make sure to click the  X  on the  Everyone Else  choice under  Assign to .

Media Recording  Assignments are not recommended due to technical reasons. Instead, have students submit media by embedding it in a  Text Entry  assignment through Panopto .

Clearly express expectations and criteria for grading by using a  Rubric .

Be cautious limiting submission attempts, as students often make mistakes loading documents and need multiple attempts to ensure you have the correct submission.

• Delete an assignment with the Canvas guide  How do I delete an assignment?
• This duplication process will not work for Quizzes.
• Attach a rubric to an assignment for grading or to communicate expectations to students with the Canvas guide  How do I add a rubric to an assignment?

Accessibility Tips

• Use descriptive text for links, instead of long URLs or ‘click here’. 
• Make instructions brief and to-the-point. Avoid long paragraphs and sentences.
• Consider allowing multiple submission types to accommodate technical limitations students may face.

Assignment Groups  are a way to categorize different graded items in Canvas. For example, you may have journals, blogs, and essays which your students create in your course. Assignment Groups allow you to label and group different types of assignments separately in order to better organize and for ease when applying weighting (see  How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups? ). When getting started with Assignment Groups, learn to

• Add and delete assignment groups with the Canvas guide  How do I add an assignment group in a course?
• Move or reorder an assignment group with the Canvas guide  How do I move or reorder an assignment group?
• Make rules governing grading expectations within assignment groups with the Canvas guide  How do I create rules for an assignment group?

Additional Resources

• CTI Resource: What is the Assignments Index Page?
• How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates as an instructor?
• How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?
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Peer reviews can be used with group assignments.

First, make sure you have created a Group Set and associated Groups. Make sure that students are assigned to a Group

For directions on how to create Group Sets and Groups see: How Do I create Group Sets / Course Groups?

Create the Assignment with "Group Assignment" and "Peer Review" selected.

All Peer Reviews require a student to review an individual submission by another student. However, group assignment submissions are made by one group member on behalf of the entire group, and all group members will display the same submission.

If you select Manually Assigned Peer Reviews, you can assign students from one group to peer review students from a different group OR assign them to peer review students within their group.

If you select Automatically Assigned Peer Reviews the default is that members of one group will be automatically (and randomly) be assigned to peer review members of a different group

However, if you select automatically assigned peer reviews, there is an extra "Allow intra-group peer reviews" checkbox displayed. Selecting this checkbox allows assignments to be truly random and disregard student group associations.

Example of selecting "Automatically Assign Peer reviews"

Once you have saved (or saved and published) the Peer Reviewed Group Assignment, it can be managed like any non-group peer review assignment

If you selected to manually assign peer reviews, see: How do I manage a manual assigned peer review assignment?

If you selected to automatically assign peer reviews, see: How do I manage an automatically assigned peer review assignment?

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