To access Canvas follow the steps below:

• Go to canvas.manchester.ac.uk .
• Login with your University username and password if prompted.
• Canvas will be default open on the Dashboard (which only displays 20 courses).
• In the Global Navigation menu, click on Courses>All courses to view all courses you are enrolled on.
• Open the relevant course unit.

SpeedGrader allows you to annotate/add inline comments to written submissions, complete a marking rubric (if appropriate) and also add feedback in a variety of other ways (eg. speech to text recognition, record/upload media, add a file attachment).

Go to the Marking and feedback guidance if you need further information about marking with SpeedGrader and using rubrics.

All assignments in Canvas, will appear under the Assignments menu within a course unit.

In Blackboard, students were allocated to ‘marking groups’. In Canvas marking groups for PGT dissertations only are replaced by ‘sections‘. Sections can be hidden from students so they do not see which section they have been allocated to. Staff can filter the marking interface (SpeedGrader) by section, to view the students they need to mark.

If students have been allocated to sections, you can view these sections via the Canvas Gradebook, by following the steps below:

• Open the Grades menu to view Canvas Gradebook.
• Click on Apply Filters, then select Sections.
• Next click on the name of the section you wish to display.

• Across the top of the Gradebook you will see the name of the section that has been applied.
• To remove a filter from the Gradebook click the drop down arrow next to the filter applied and then Remove section.

• If section membership is incorrect and students need to be added or removed, please notify your programme team in the first instance.

In Canvas ‘marking groups’ are referred to as ‘sections’. To access student work and filter the marking interface to view your ‘marking group’ (section) follow the steps below.

• Open the Assignments menu.
• Locate the relevant assignment and click the assignment title. Next you will see a screen showing information such as assignments instructions, the due date and editing buttons. Do not edit assignment settings!
• To launch the marking interface and view students submissions, click on the SpeedGrader link to open the marking interface.

• SpeedGrader will open displaying all students who submitted to the inbox. If anonymous marking is enabled, then pseudonyms (eg. Student 10) will be shown in place of names.
• The first step to filtering SpeedGrader to display your ‘marking group’ is to click on the drop down arrow next to the ‘student name / pseudonym’ on the purple menu bar

• A new menu should appear indicating which section is displayed. By default Speed Grader shows ‘All Sections‘ when first used, but may subsequently remember the last section selected.
• Hover your mouse over ‘All sections’ or the section name displayed to reveal a drop down list of ‘marking groups’.

Note: The dropdown list will contain all sections created within the space (eg. both first marking and second marking groups). The list may not be in alphabetical order and you may need to scroll with your mouse to navigate through the list and locate your ‘marking group’ (section).

• Once you have located the relevant section name eg. 1st, Surname, Initial click the section name to select it. When a new section is selected, the SpeedGrader window will refresh and you should notice the number of students displayed changes to display only the students in the selected section.
• Double check the section being displayed, before starting marking. To do that click on the drop down arrow next to the students name. You should see a single section displayed, eg. 1st, Surname, Initial.

• Once the correct marking section is displayed, you can begin to add feedback to the submissions.

• IMPORTANT: In courses where 1st and 2nd marking is taking place independently in Canvas, marking must take place in the correct inbox. So for example, once you have completed your first marking in the ‘Submission 1 inbox’ close this inbox, return to the assignments menu and open the Submission 2 inbox to begin your 2nd marking.

See Marking and feedback guidance if you need further information about marking within SpeedGrader and using rubrics.

Turnitin Similarity reports can be accessed via the SpeedGrader marking interface, a similarity score will display in a panel to the right of a students submission.

To access a Turnitin Similarity report via SpeedGrader follow the steps below:

• Open the Assignments menu.
• Locate the relevant assignment and click the assignment title to open the assignment settings.
• Next, click on the SpeedGrader link.
• Locate the relevant student submission.
• Click on the Similarity Report score (coloured box with percentage) to open the report in a new window.

• Within Turnitin Feedback Studio you can also download a copy of the similarity report, if you need to share this with other markers.

Further support:

• How do I use the Turnitin Plagiarism Framework in Canvas

In Canvas you can bulk download all submissions for an assignment, via Canvas Gradebook. For step by step instructions see: How do I download all student submissions for an assignment?

If you wish to download individual assignments, then you will need to the relevant student within SpeedGrader. Once you have located the relevant assignment, you should see a download button available next to the submitted file in the marking panel.

For courses that require first and second markers to mark independently within Canvas, two inboxes will be used. Each submission inbox will have an associated column within Canvas Gradebook.

Staff will only be able to view and download marks from Canvas Gradebook, if anonymous marking is disabled. Therefore, programme teams may wish to choose a date to disable anonymous marking once initial marking is completed and optionally choose to export grades.

• To remove anonymous marking, simply open the assignment, click Edit the assignment, remove the tick from the checkbox ‘Graders cannot view student names’ and Save the changes.
• How do I export grades in the Gradebook.

• Managing and Releasing Grades (downloading and uploading data to Canvas Gradebook)