Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Efficient Grading and Feedback in Canvas

“Working Sustainably: Faculty Accessibility Resources” series offers short, practical sessions focused on how accessibility can support more flexible, sustainable, and responsive ways of working, teaching, learning, and researching. Browse all events in the series.

Discover how Canvas SpeedGrader can streamline grading and feedback workflows while supporting a more accessible and efficient evaluation process. In this 30-minute show-and-tell session, we’ll explore key features, share practical tips for providing meaningful feedback, and demonstrate how SpeedGrader can help save time while enhancing the student experience.

Canvas SpeedGrader is a grading and feedback tool within the Canvas learning management system that allows instructors to review, assess, and provide feedback on student submissions from a single interface.

Key features include viewing submissions in one place, providing written, audio, video, and annotated feedback, using rubrics to support consistent evaluation, navigating quickly between student submissions, and tracking grading progress.

Benefits include saving time by centralizing grading tasks, promoting consistent and equitable evaluation, supporting accessibility through multiple feedback formats, and enhancing the student experience through timely, clear, and actionable feedback.

Session format:  

• A 30-minute bite-size presentation (show-and-tell), and
• An optional 30-minute discussion and exploration period, providing opportunities for further questions, collective experimentation, resource-sharing, and community-building. 

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