Canvas - Tracking Student Progress
Course Analytics
Canvas Course Analytics aggregates and presents activity, assignment submission, grade, and participation data for each student, represented in colorful visualizations to help instructors see at a glance which students are performing well and which are at risk.
Canvas Course Analytics Resources
Assignments
Assignments include Quizzes, graded Discussions, and online submissions (i.e. files, images, text, URLs, etc.). Assignments in Canvas can be used to challenge students' understanding and help assess competency by using a variety of media. The Assignments page will show your students all of the Assignments that will be expected of them and how many points each is worth.
Assignments can be assigned to everyone in the course or differentiated by section or user.
Canvas Assignments Resources
- How do I use the Assignments Index Page?
- What is the difference between a Canvas Assignment and a Canvas Activity?
- How do I create an assignment?
- What assignment types can I create in a course?
- How do I create an online assignment?
- How do I delete an assignment?
- How do I duplicate an assignment?
- How do I move or reorder an assignment?
- How do I add or edit details in an assignment?
- How do I add or edit points for an assignment?
- How do I use Draft State in Assignments?
- How do I assign an assignment to everyone in a course?
- How do I assign an assignment to an individual student?
- How do I assign an assignment to a course section?
- How do I assign an assignment to a course group?
- How do I view differentiated assignments with different due dates in a course?
- Can a student resubmit Canvas assignments?
- How do I use peer review assignments in a course?
- How do I create a peer review assignment?
- How do I manually assign peer reviews for an assignment?
- How do I automatically assign peer reviews for an assignment?
- How do I view student peer review comments as an instructor?
- How do I create a cloud assignment with a Google Drive file?
- How do I create a cloud assignment with a Microsoft Office 365 file?
- How do I download all student submissions for an assignment?
- How do I upload all student submissions for an assignment?
- What is the difference between assignment due dates and availability dates?
- How do I add an assignment group in a course?
- How do I move or reorder an assignment group?
- How do I create rules for an assignment group?
- How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?
- How do I create an assignment shell in an assignment group?
- How do I add an assignment using an external app?
- How do I exclude an assignment from the course's final grades?
- How do I add an assignment that includes anonymous grading?
- How do I enable anonymous instructor annotations in student submissions?
- How do I add a moderated assignment to be graded by multiple reviewers?
- How do I give extra credit in a course?
- How do I import SCORM files as an assignment?
- How do I add a grading scheme to an assignment?
Gradebook
Grades can serve as a communication tool between students and instructors and allow instructors to track the progress of students.
The Gradebook stores all information about student progress in the course, measuring both letter grades and course outcomes.
Canvas Gradebook Resources
- How do I use the Gradebook?
- How do I view assignments or students individually in the Gradebook?
- How do I use the icons and colors in the Gradebook?
- How do I view assignment details in the Gradebook?
- How do I create assignment columns for non-submission assignments in the Gradebook?
- How do I hide student names in the Gradebook?
- How do I enter and edit grades in the Gradebook?
- How do I excuse an assignment for a student in the Gradebook?
- How do I view the history of all grading changes in the Gradebook?
- How do I leave comments for students in the Gradebook?
- How do I send a message to my students from the Gradebook?
- How do I set a default grade for an assignment?
- How do I mute or unmute an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I view a student's Grades page in a course?
- How do I view a student's submission details page in a course?
- How do I view my students' total grades as a point value instead of a percentage in the Gradebook?
- How do I sort columns in the Gradebook?
- How do I move the Total column in the Gradebook?
- How do I use the Notes column in the Gradebook?
- How do I view grades for concluded student enrollments in the Gradebook?
- How do I view grades for inactive student enrollments in the Gradebook?
- How do I download all student submissions for an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I upload all student submissions for an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I export grades from the Gradebook?
- How do I upload changes to the Gradebook?
- How do I treat ungraded assignments as zero in the Gradebook?
- How do I get to SpeedGrader from the Gradebook?
Quizzes
Canvas offers a tool called Quizzes for posting timed assessments and surveys to your students. The quizzes tool is great for creating formative tests where students can check their knowledge. Research shows that self-testing is better for retention than re-reading notes (aka traditional studying).
Canvas Quizzes Resources
- What quiz types can I create in a course?
- What options can I set in a quiz?
- How do I use the Quizzes Index Page?
- How do I use Draft State in Quizzes?
- How do I create a quiz with individual questions?
- How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions?
- How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank?
- How do I create a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank?
- How do I create a Multiple Choice quiz question?
- How do I create a True/False quiz question?
- How do I create a Fill-in-the-Blank quiz question?
- How do I create a Fill-in-Multiple-Blanks quiz question?
- How do I create a Multiple Answers quiz question?
- How do I create a Multiple Dropdown quiz question?
- How do I create Likert scale quiz questions?
- How do I create a Matching quiz question?
- How do I create a Numerical Answer quiz question?
- How do I create a Formula quiz question with a single variable?
- How do I create a Simple Formula quiz question?
- How do I create an Essay quiz question?
- How do I create a File Upload quiz question?
- How do I create a Text (no question) quiz question?
- How can I create a quiz where students only see one question at a time?
- How do I make a quiz available before or after the due date?
- How do I assign a quiz to an individual student?
- How do I assign a quiz to a course section?
- How do I delete a quiz?
- How do I link course content to a quiz question?
- Once I publish a quiz, how do I make additional changes?
- Once I publish a quiz, how do I use the Moderate Quiz page?
- Once I publish a quiz, what kinds of quiz statistics are available?
- Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts?
- Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time?
- How do I manually submit outstanding student quiz submissions?
- How do I view student results in a quiz?
- How do I view a quiz log for a student?
- What options can I use to regrade a quiz in a course?
- How do I regrade a Multiple Choice quiz question?
- How do I regrade a True/False quiz question?
- How do I regrade a Multiple Answers quiz question?
- How do I create a survey in my course?
- How do I view survey results in a course?
- How do I view practice quiz results in a course?.
Question Banks
- How do I create a question bank in a course?
- How do I bookmark a question bank in a course?
- How do I unbookmark a question bank in a course?
- How do I delete a question bank in a course?
- How do I move multiple questions from one question bank to another?
- How do I move/copy a question from one question bank to another?
- How do I reorder questions or question groups in a quiz?
- How do I import a question bank from one Canvas course to another?
Import/Export
