Assessment & Feedback

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Prevent plagiarism on student papers submitted online and provide learning opportunities to help them properly attribute sources.

Tool
Canvas TurnItIn

Benefits
TurnItIn is a tool offered through Canvas that will enable you prevent plagiarism on assignments that are submitted online.  The tool also provides learning opportunities to help your students properly attribute sources.

Reference Guides and Tutorials
Read these guides to learn how to use TurnItIn to prevent plagiarism!

Read this brief guide with tips for using Turnitin as a teaching tool.

Find a way to grade my students using specific criteria for achievement while sharing my expectations with them.

Tool
Canvas Rubrics

Benefits
Canvas includes a rubric that's an assessment tool listing evaluation criteria for an assignment.  You can use a rubric to:

  • Clarify learning goals
  • Design instruction that addresses learning goals
  • Communicate learning goals to your students
  • Provide guided feedback on student  progress toward learning goals
  • Assess final assignments in terms of the degree to which the learning goals were met

Reference Guides and Tutorials
Create a Canvas Rubric to Assess and Grade your Student Work

Create and post tests and quizzes that will be made available to my students online and provide them with immediate feedback.

Tool
Canvas Quizzes

Benefits
The Canvas Quizzes feature enables you to create a test, quiz, or survey offering a variey of question types.  Students are provided with immediate feedback and scores are automatically added to the Grade Center.  A Canvas quiz can also be used to informally assess prior student knowledge for a particular subject.

Reference Guides and Tutorials
Create an Online Quiz in Canvas

Calculate, weight, and securely publish my grades for my students to view online.

Tool
Canvas Grades

Benefits
Encourage student learning by providing immediate feedback to them on tests, quizzes, projects, and assignments.  Canvas Gradebook enables you to add grades for any graded assessments you create, provided annotated feedback to your students, and even leave audio and video comments.  

Reference Guides and Tutorials
The Canvas Gradebook

Encourage active participation in my classroom and obtain anonymous feedback from my students.

Tool
Classroom Response System, TurningPoint Cloud

Benefits
To encourage active classroom participation, Temple instructors may use a classroom response system such as TurningPoint.  Using response pads, also referred to as "clickers," or a mobile phone, students can answer questions, respond to surveys, take opinion polls, and much more.

Reference Guides and Tutorials
Obtain Anonymous Feedback from you Students with TurningPoint Cloud

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