Giving Great Feedback in Less Time with Canvas

Ann Kwinn, Ph.D., Office of Innovative Teaching and Technology

Carl Littlejohn, M.A., Office of Innovative Teaching and Technology

Tim Schreffler, B.A., Office of Innovative Teaching and Technology

Faculty know the importance of giving feedback on student assignments; students who want to improve look to feedback to perform better on subsequent assignments. Our department helps faculty find creative ways to give feedback including peer reviews, discussion boards, automatically graded quizzes, rubrics, and multiple drafts of papers. Canvas has a rich set of tools in the Gradebook for giving text, audio, and video feedback, or even marking up a paper with handwritten comments or drawings. Faculty can also attach additional files as part of feedback. We will review these tools and methods, and discuss how to grade more quickly and in a way that is meaningful to students. Join with other faculty to share strategies and get feedback from students to see what they prefer. Come learn, share, and give us feedback!