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• Creating an Ungraded, No-Submission Assignment (Reading Assignment)

Updated on Dec 03, 2021

Instructors can use Assignments to create ungraded, no submission assignment for their students. Typically, this type of assignment is used to assign readings to students that have due dates. These types of assignments will be listed in the Course Summary section of the Syllabus tool but will not be listed in the Canvas Grades area.

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This article will address the following information:

Assignment Settings

Creating the assignment.

• Click on " Assignments " from the course navigation .
• Click the " +Assignment " button in the top-right corner.

• Provide an " Assignment Name " in the top box.
• Enter a description or assignment details in the Rich Content Editor.
• If you would like to attach files, you can use the Rich Content Editor to select the Document icon.

Below the Rich Content Editor are assignment settings. For an ungraded, no-submission assignment, you would want to set the following options to:

• Points - Set the number of points to 0 .
• Assignment Group - Select an assignment group or create a new assignment group. Because these are a special type of assignment, you may wish to have a separate Assignment group to keep these assignments separated from any graded assignments you may have.  

Assignment Groups are a way to organize activities listed in the Assignments tool in Canvas. Assignment Groups can be used to visually arrange activities together in any way that makes the most sense for your course (examples: by activity type, by topic, by week, etc..). Assignment Groups can also be weighted so that the scores of activities within the group will count for a certain percentage of the final grade. Click the links below for more information about Assignment Groups:

• Creating Weighted Assignments Groups
• How do I add an assignment group in a course?
• How do I move or reorder an assignment group?
• Display Grade As - Select " Not Graded ."
• Assign - Select who and when will see the assignment. To ensure that the Course Summary section of the Syllabus tool is organized properly, you will at least need to provide a " Due " date.
• Click " Save " (saves a draft) or " Save & Publish " when finished.

For more help, please contact  [email protected] .

Assessments, Feedback and Grades

• Building Assessments in Canvas
• Creating an Assignment
• Creating a Media Recording Assignment
• Submitting a File to a Canvas Assignment on a Student's Behalf
• Implementing Peer Review Assessments
• Duplicating an Assignment
• Setting Lock / Availability Dates
• Due Dates versus Display Dates
• Checking a Canvas Activity in Student View without Releasing It to Students
• Assignments (Vendor Guides)
• Turnitin: Creating a Turnitin Assignment
• Turnitin: Assignment Settings Options
• Turnitin: Viewing the Similarity Report / Originality Score (Instructor Guide)
• Creating a Discussion Board
• Implementing Online Discussions
• Discussions (Vendor Guides)
• Strategies for Delivering Exams / Quizzes in Canvas
• Introducing New Quizzes
• New Quizzes (Vendor Guides)
• Quizzes (Vendor Guides)
• Supporting and Using Feedback in Your Class
• Submitting Audio / Video Feedback to a Student
• Grading Assignments Using the SpeedGrader
• Utilizing Anonymous Grading
• Accessing the SpeedGrader from the Gradebook
• Gradebook Overview and Features
• Understanding Gradebook Views and Filters
• Using the Grade Posting Policy
• Changing Grading Schemes / Grade Letter Ranges
• Importing Grades into Gradebook
• SpeedGrader (Vendor Guides)
• Rubrics (Vendor Guides)
• Gradebook (Vendor Guides)
• Feedback & Accessibility Barriers Tool: Overview
• Enabling / Viewing the Feedback & Accessibility Barriers Tool
• Mid-Semester Feedback: Overview
• Disabling / Enabling the Mid-Semester Feedback Tool in Your Canvas Course
• Timing of Mid-Semester Feedback
• Managing Mid-Semester Feedback Survey Questions
• Viewing / Downloading Student Mid-Semester Feedback Submissions
• New Analytics (Vendor Guides)
• Analytics (Vendor Guides)
• Outcomes (Vendor Guides)

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Enter Score on Grades Page

View online submission and submit a score in speedgrader, sort and name display options, annotation tools, grade entry, use a rubric, additional feedback, moving to next student, more resources.

If students aren't submitting anything, like for an in-class activity or participation points, you will need to create a "no submission" assignment on the Assignments page. Then, you can go right to the Grades page and enter a grade for each student, just as you would in spreadsheet software.

Enter "EX" (excused) for students who do not need to complete the assignment so that the score won't count as a "0" when it comes time to calculate a final grade.

When students submit artifacts online (text, document, picture, etc.) you will use the SpeedGrader to grade the assignment. The SpeedGrader will show a preview of the student submission and give you a box to enter the score and a comments field.

You can access the SpeedGrader in a couple of ways:

On the Canvas Dashboard, click on the assignment title in the To Do list

In the course, click on the assignment title in the To Do list on the home page

In the course, click on the Assignment page, then the title of the assignment, and click SpeedGrader

In the course, click on Grades , then the three dots, and SpeedGrader

Once you are in the SpeedGrader, you can sort the submissions alphabetically, by the date of submission, or by submission status and hide the student names.

If students submitted documents for the assignment, you have the option to use a pointer, highlighter, text entry, text strikethrough, or box outline to provide feedback. When using these tools, be sure to add a comment for students to view the feedback. Here is sample verbiage you might use:

Please be sure to view the comments on the body of your paper by clicking on the "View Feedback" link from the assignment page.

If you prefer to use annotation tools using an application on your computer, you can download the file and upload the edited version. For example, you could download the submitted file and open it into a word processing software like Microsoft Word and use the Track Changes feature. There, you can save your document with the annotations and upload them to SpeedGrader by using the File Attachment button underneath the comment box on the right-hand panel of the Speedgrader.

Enter the score in the grade field on the right panel.

You can use a rubric to grade the assignment. See Rubrics for more details.

You can provide additional feedback to students in the form of comments, an uploaded file, video, or audio recording.

You can move to the next student by clicking on the left arrow at the top of the page, or use the dropdown menu to select a specific student.

• Canvas guide: How do I use SpeedGrader?
• Canvas guide: How do I post grades for an assignment in the Gradebook?  

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If the gradebook column for an item says it is "Unpublished," something has changed the status of the placeholder page from the default. In the unpublished state, grades will not be sent from Vantage to Canvas. Grades for other Vantage assignments will sync as expected.

In this example, grades are syncing successfully for the Video Activity and Knowledge Check. The Critical Thinking does not have a grade yet, but the placeholder dash indicates the grade will sync once it's completed. The Chapter Test column indicates it is unpublished and the placeholder dash is missing which confirms that no grade is expected.

Follow these steps to sync grades for the missing assignment:

1. In Canvas, go to Assignments in the left navigation menu.

2. Locate the assignment in the list. You can verify that the assignment is unpublished because it will not show a green bar on the left or a green checkmark to the right.

3. Click the unpublished circle to publish the assignment.

The status will update to show it is published (green checkmark icon).

4. Go to the Vantage gradebook. Locate the assignment in the gradebook. Click the circular grade sync icon to push grades for that assignment.

5. You will see a pop-up message confirming that you want to push all grades for the assignment. Click OK to push the grade sync.

6. Wait a couple of minutes for the grade sync process to complete. Refresh your Canvas gradebook. You will see that the assignment column no longer says "Unpublished." You will also see the grades have been synced to Vantage.

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There will be programming assignments (MPs) roughly every week that is worth 100 points each. There's no deadline extension for COVID related or other medical and non-medical related circumstance. Instead, the lowest MP score will be dropped.

MPs will be distributed on Thursday and typically due (by computer hand-in via Github) the following Thursday at 10.00 pm.

If you are working in a group, each group member must turn in his/her own copy of code in Github. We cannot grade your partner's copy as yours. Mention your group members by NetID near the top using comments:

Late submissions: You can turn in the assignments late until Saturday (48 hours after the deadline) and get a penalty of 2 points for each hour late.

James Scholar students who wish to earn honors credit in this course should complete additional MPs. See the Honors page in the menu pane.

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MP Regrades

Grades for MPs will be released on Canvas and on Github, usually by the second Monday after they are due.

You can check the full breakdown of the autograder results and grade on Github at

If you believe there was a mistake in the autograder, an edge case that was missed, or an issue with submission/Canvas, submit a regrade request by submitting to the corresponding assignment on Gradescope.

Be specific about the issue, and explain why you believe you deserve partial credit.

The deadline to submit an MP regrade request will be one week after grades are released.

Example: MP 1 is due Sep 05. Regrades can be requested starting Sep 16, and will need to be submitted by Sep 23 deadline.

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Would Canvas know if a student started/attempted a Quiz but never finished?

I have a student who has previously plagiarized assignments and otherwise violated the academic code. They recently messaged me saying that they started a quiz that was due yesterday on Canvas, but the final submission button wouldn't work because of their poor Wi-Fi. When I look at the Student Quiz Results pane, it shows that this student never took the quiz. Further, if I download the Student Analysis CSV, no answers are recorded for them.

I have a strong suspicion based on precedent that this student is not being truthful, but before I respond as such, I'd like to confirm - if they had started but not finished the quiz, would Canvas have recorded any data on them? Or without a completed submission, Canvas doesn't know that they were there at all?

EDIT/CLOSURE: I just realized this is probably a better question for Canvas support, who confirmed that this student hadn't even logged in in several days. I think I have my answer.

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