Tuesday 28 January 2025

This 90 minute workshop focuses on designing and setting up assessments in Canvas. The workshop will consider a range of assessment types, how to manage multi-submissions assessments and accommodate multi-modal assessment. We will provide basic technical help to set up your assessments in Canvas to support efficient administration. The workshop includes an opportunity to work on your own assignment with support from an Educational Designer.  

We will also try out the Assessment design AI assistant that supports you to think about designing assessments with the needs of all your students in mind. 

 

Workshop Outline: 

This workshop is for you if you need: 

• A brief orientation to assessment features in Canvas 
• Basic technical help setting up assessment groups and assessment tasks. 

Learning goals: 

• Understand the Canvas features to support assessment 
• Understand the SpeedGrader and Markbook features 
• Awareness of approaches to assessment (Lane 1, Lane 2, multimodal and multi-submission assessments) 

We will cover:              

• Considering assessment types and multi-submission and multimodal assessments 
• Setting up assignment groups for weighting in Canvas 

• Creating assessments in Canvas 
• Assessments and your Markbook 
• Formative assignments 

 

You will have an opportunity throughout the workshop to engage with Canvas functionality. 

There will be an additional 30 minutes added to at the end for some guided implementation of your assessment plan. 

 

Event details

• When:

  Tuesday 28 January 2025
  2.00pm - 3.30pm

• Where:

  Online - via Zoom

• contact:

  [email protected]

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