Moderated Grading

Moderated grading allows multiple reviewers to grade a student’s work and create draft or provisional grades for an assignment. For instance, you may want to allow two TAs in your course to grade all assignments, and you can review their assessments before determining the final grade. This feature can also be used to create a sampling of students for assignment review to ensure grading is consistent and allows secondary grade reviews.

 

Moderated assignments include up to two reviewers and one moderator. A moderator is any user role with permission to moderate grades (commonly instructors).

 

After setting up a moderated assignment and publishing the assignment, moderators can select students to add to the moderation set. A student moderation set is a group of students whose assignments can be graded by multiple reviewers.

Dr. Rob Gibson explains in this demonstration:

Link to video found here

Canvas Product Updates

Happy New Year! Some quick updates to pass along regarding the newest Canvas product update which will be released this Saturday, along with a few other important notifications we would like to share as concisely as possible.

Product Release: The latest 3-week product sprint (update) will be released on Saturday, January 9^th. This is a feature-packed update. New features in this release are listed in detail below. They include updates and improvements to Grades, Assignments, People, and several other components. You’ll also see the new interface updates scheduled to be turned on in the summer.

January 9^th  Detailed Release Notes & Screencast

Canvas Tips/Tricks: Start of Semester

A reminder that Canvas doesn’t work quite the way Blackboard worked regarding how courses open. Canvas courses are managed using Terms. We’ve set the Spring 2016 Term Start Date to be January 15^th. (Courses officially start January 20^th.) So, if you plan to open your course early, you can simply “Publish” any time after January 15^th. However, if you plan to open the course earlier than the 15^th, you’ll need to manually adjust the Course Availability Dates and override the Term Start. (Course Settings > Starts/Ends > and check “Users can only participate in the course between these dates.”) Otherwise, students will not have access to the course despite Publishing. Moreover, you cannot Email them in advance.

Turn It In

Remember that the TII integration has changed significantly. If you’ve set up plagiarism detection in your assignments prior to copying the course, you’ll need to return to those assignments and set it back up again using the new LTI integration. (For reference, TII settings do not copy from term to term. A peril of a third party integration.) We encourage you to reach out to Mark Summey (x5387), Anna Catterson (x5107), or Joe Kern (x5316) who can walk you through these changes. We've shared this video before, but here it is again:

Turnitin (New for Spring 2016)

Good afternoon ESU Canvas Community!

There is an important change coming to the Turnitin (TII)/Canvas integration. Currently there is a checkbox that appears within the Assignment creation parameters that allows the faculty to easily enable TII plagiarism detection. That feature, called an Application Programming Interface, or API, is being deprecated by the company that makes Turnitin. Instead they have developed a new integration format based on the Learning Tools Interoperability standard, or LTI. This new LTI integration is an industry norm; however, it significantly affects the workflow regarding how plagiarism detection is enabled within Canvas. To our disappointment, there will no longer be a checkbox within the Assignment parameters, so it may be a little less intuitive. However, there are several new affordances provided with this integration. Moreover, the integration between the products is deeper allowing for more of the TII features to be used during grading. 

This short tutorial will help you through the process:

 As always, please feel free to contact us at Learning Technologies when if you need help, we're glad to help! 

Canvas Updates & Reminders

Canvas Tips, Tricks:Firefox, Chrome & SpeedGrader
If you add inline comments to student submissions in the SpeedGrader when using Firefox you may have noticed that the last comment doesn’t ‘stick’ unless you click outside the comment balloon. We learned recently that this is an issue with Crocodoc and Firefox and not likely to be corrected. (Although there will be a mitigation introduced in this upcoming sprint.) However, if you use Chrome the comments will ‘stick’ without the need to click outside the balloon. (We do not recommend using Internet Explorer with Canvas.)

 
Spring 2016 Canvas Courses: Your Spring 2016 Canvas course shells have generated! You can find them under your Courses menu. You can either copy content yourself, or contact someone from the Learning Technologies Team and we’ll copy the content for you. Remember to automatically modify your assignment due dates if you roll content forward.

New Turnitin Integration: Turnitin is deprecating its current process for integrating with Canvas. Instead, they have developed an LTI extension. This new LTI extension will be installed over the Christmas break and will have a noticeable impact on the product workflow. Unfortunately, we have no option as the current integrator will not be supported past this quarter. We’ll create some tutorial videos in the coming weeks that illustrate the process for adding Turnitin to an assignment submission.

New Canvas User Interface: Is coming! You’ve seen hints of the new design in the updates. We’ll plan on rolling out the new interface at the conclusion of the Spring, 2016 term. Watch for more information regarding opportunities to learn about these changes and how they impact your Canvas experience.