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Hi. This is David Bayne with the Pioneer High School Cisco Networking Academy
I wanted to record a little bit about how
to create assignments so students can upload files
in the NetAcad site. I'm here logged into a class. I actually
create a test class, and I think that's a good policy anyway
created this test class where you can play around with the tool and then
get your work done. Here's my main page. I'm going to go to Assignments because
what we want to create is an assignment
and the NetAcad site has
a lot really great tutorials, it just missed a couple of steps or
was unclear on a couple of steps that I want to cover. I have
this new assignment category I made earlier called "turn in."
The Assignments tutorial on NetAcad really does a good job with that and I come to that
and the little plus over here to add a new one you notice that is playing with
it earlier
so so here we go
"Test for Podcast". I can give it a due date. If I give it a due date it appears
on the calendar in upcoming events,
if you don't get a due date it doesn't appear in what the students see.
I'll click "done" there. It is an assignment
it can be a lot of different things here discussion; and
the discussion forums actually are kinda nice. You can make a new Quiz. I do
quizzes all the time I use the quiz engine for study guides for instance. If
anyone's interested
in addition the fact that I will cover this in a later podcast I'll certainly
be willing to share my actual file with you if you'd like to see them.
An External Tool would be something like Google Docs
I have never tried that but again hopefully in a later podcast. And then
not graded I haven't done as well.
We're going to create an assignment and then there are more options to choose.
When you select
more options you get the second page of the actual assignments page
and here you can do a lot of things. For instance, I can put my instructions
I can attach a file,
for instance if you want if this were-- and the way I'm going to use this
is that if this were
the upload area for a lab, I'll put the PDF
a link to the PDF for the lab right here and to do that you simply click on files
over here on the right
and you have your course files and because I don't have anything
selected (uploaded)
I'm just going to pick one, pick one randomly
and none of these are really good; I'll pick just this text file
All the files work the same here. So I will select
a text file there to attach and that is a live link
for anything, any file that you want to have
posted on the NetAcad site, you would upload it using the file link to
to the left. The important part here, though:
if this is a document that you want
the students to complete and fill out and then
turn in with a document, or if it's just something you want
you can a turning this into a Dropbox area. The points--you can determine how
ever many points that
the due date however many whatever your due date is but the real key is this in
Assignment group. It is
oh no, excuse me, not the Assignment group. It's the Advanced Options
and your type here has to do with submission,
Submission Type, and you wanted an
Online. With an Online Submission you have
several choices and if we look here we see them: a Text Entry
allows them to type things in just like it sounds, it allows them to
type in an entry of some sort. A Website URL--perhaps they use an external
blog or some sort of external sites to put their information, maybe you've got a
wiki page
that would be the URL they were turn in here. Media Recordings is what it sounds
like they can actually record audio and perhaps video;
I don't know how Canvas works, I've never tried that one, but it's
a nice voice annotation and finally the 1 want to show is
Allow File Uploads. I could restrict the file types for specific extensions. If I
want to make sure they're doc files
I want to make sure XLS files, if I want to make sure they're PDF's.
I'd choose to not do that because I never know what my students are
actually using; maybe they've got Open Doc
format maybe they've got Word doc, maybe they're turning in PDFs, whatever it happens
to be, but that's a choice you make.
For labs that are provided for us as fill-in-able PDFs,
this'll be PDF so you could restricted it by that.
You might have groups that are working together
and you'll have to determine what those groups are
and I'm not going to create that.
I could assign every kid an
individual score on their group assignment, or I could assign it to the
entire group together.
Peer Review is what it sounds like. You can have them review each other's work.
And then I'm going to go ahead and click on that because I am going to copy this and use this
as a template from my other files (to be uploaded)
and these properties will be the same in those other ones.
When I click on Update Assignment here
and it's going to load, here is my assignment
with a Speed Grader. Now, why is this important?
Let's look at what it looks like from Student perspective.
Because the student end is what I was really looking for
when I wanted it, so I will select student view--I really like that NetAcad
added this. I was a member the Beta and we didn't have that easy to use,
but here I am as a student, and you know I'm a student because it's at the bottom,
where it says You are currently in Student View". I really like that too.
This is an assignment; this is an assignment
and
Test for Podcast is the assignment,
and now here is the text that I put in
when it's due, how many points, what it is
so any instructions I put I have my file attached to it
but over here on the right is the key: Submit Assignment.
When I click on that, I get a File Upload area
and I would actually have a separate tab each of the ones that I had selected.
If I had
Input Text, or if I had a URL
each of those should be a separate tab here at the bottom. I can now browse for
file it really
I'm just going to pick one; this is from a class that I was taking through
Fresno Pacific.
And then when I submit,
I now have this file that's uploaded
I'm going to let it finish...
We're back and
it says over here "Turned In".
I can ask for Details about my submission but there is my
document: here's what the student turned in.
Now, here's what's really nice. We'll leave the student view I will look at as a teacher
again
because this is the part that always drove me nuts while grading last year
because I found it very difficult to use here
in Canvas. If I have my assignment
and I'm going to go ahead and
go to that assignment from my grading,
the way I'm going to grade it, and over here in Speed Grader
I have two options here on the right I have Speed Grader, and I have
Download Submissions.
Download Submissions does what it says it does: it'll put them all in a zip file
and download them all at once which is really awesome but I'm going to show you
another trick.
If I click on Speed Grader, I get a new tab
and Speed Grader I've used before in other ways
all your students will appear up here.
I happen only have one and then
--this is really cool--here is the PDF seeing here
it automatically launches it in my screen so I don't have to worry
about loading it separately (and this is
a blended learning PDF instead of a lab)
I also as a teacher I could put the grade here if I wanted on the right;
I don't use the the Canvas gradebook,
but I do leave comments, so I could leave a comment for my students, saying
"You should always
upload your files after
you save them"
There. And when I submit the comment that that comment actually
sets emailed to the student him or herself,
and I can go down this list and look at all of my students
I can I only have one in this list, and each have their files will appear
automatically. So that's how you
create a an Assignment that will allow students to turn in their work
and then you can grade them fairly easily. Feel free to email me if you have
any questions. I'm always here
thanks. bye