4. Assessments
Creating well-designed assignments, quizzes, and rubrics enhances student understanding and transparency in grading.
Use this guide to ensure you have covered principles, strategies, and tools for creating aligned assessments, this includes clear instructions, rubrics, and insights into student progress.
Definition
Assessments within the Canvas environment refers to ways that measure student learning, such as assignments, projects, quizzes, exams, and associated rubrics.
Benefits
Effective assessments:
- Align to course learning objectives
- Provide insight into student progress
- Can be scored consistently with rubrics
- Allow flexibility in how students demonstrate learning
- Encourage desired student behaviours and study habits
Implementation checklist
Use the checklist below to track your progress
Key resources
All assessments are recorded in Canvas
Canvas Guide: SpeedGrader / Grades / Grade Filters /SpeedGrader
Detailed instructions
Canvas Guide: Due dates vs availability dates
University policy
Assessment (Coursework, Tests and Examinations Policy) § 31 and 32
Further reading
UDL 3.3 Guide information processing, visualization, and manipulation
Exploring the Components
Below is a further breakdown of the different parts of this Canvas Baseline Practice. Included are interactive annotated examples.
Use the navigation to work through sections 4.1 – 4.4