In this module, we learned how to grade student submissions. The grading features and gradebook in an LMS is one of the advantages for teachers whether they teach online, hybrid, or web-enhanced courses. Not having to manually calculate grades, or and set up formulas in an Excel spreadsheet are real time-savers for faculty, and these tools provide more timely feedback to students, which is a proven success tool.

In this lesson, we learned how easy it is to create rubrics in Canvas, that the rubrics are also easy to attach to graded content, and how they are used for grading. We also learned that Canvas rubrics can be aligned to course-level outcomes.

We learned that SpeedGrader is an incredibly handy tool from which we can grade submissions, use an embedded rubric for grading, leave comments for students and read their comments, and annotate student submissions without having to download them first.

We learned how to locate the gradebook, how it is set up, and how to grade student submissions directly from the Gradebook. We also learned how to post grading comments from the Gradebook, and some of its other features.

In this module, we learned the importance of specific and timely feedback to students and its importance for student success.

This was a significantly shorter module than the previous ones were, but also incredibly important for faculty wanting to teach online using Canvas. There is no quiz for this module because we decided to combine the assessment of the last two modules in this course into one quiz at the end of Module Six since both of the modules are quite short. This does not mean that you should not be practicing the skills you have learned in this module. Please note that when you use Student View in a classroom, you can "Reset" that test student. When the Test Student is reset, all their submissions disappear. This means you can reuse that student to resubmit work and practice various grading strategies over-and-over.