Helpful Reminders

Course Evaluations

Spring 2023 A-Term course evaluations are available (assuming your grades have been submitted and approved by OARR). You may retrieve your own course evaluations directly from the course feedback platform which can be accessed via Canvas. This screencast shows how to do this. Refer to the Course Evaluations and Retrieving Course Evaluations pages for more information. If you’d like to review your course feedback with a member of the Samberg coaching team, please contact us.

Grading in Canvas

If more than two people conduct grading in your Canvas course, please make sure that they coordinate with each other to avoid grading the same assignment submission at the same time. If more than one user edits a content item (assignment, page, quiz, etc.) in Canvas simultaneously, one user’s edits will override the other user’s work. Here is one way to avoid this issue:

If grader #1 is grading questions 1-5 and grader #2 is grading questions 6-10 on a quiz, they may agree that grader #1 will start with submissions of students with last names that start with A-M. Grader #2 will start with submissions of students with last names N-Z. The graders will tell each other when they’ve finished grading those submissions. Then they’ll switch (grader #1 will grade N-Z; grader #2 will grade A-M).

If you often have more than one grader reviewing the same assignments or quizzes, you might be interested in using Gradescope, a tool that integrates with Canvas. Contact us to learn more.

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