🎓 Building Your Canvas Course: Advanced

Virtual Event

🛠 Virtual Hands‑On Workshop
This workshop builds on the concepts introduced in the Building Your Canvas Course: Foundations session and is designed for instructors who are already familiar with basic Canvas course setup and navigation. The session focuses on the next level of Canvas course management, helping instructors refine grading workflows and provide clear, meaningful feedback to students.  

Providing clear grading expectations and timely feedback is an essential part of the teaching and learning experience. Canvas offers several tools that help instructors manage grading efficiently while supporting transparency for students. 

In this workshop, participants will explore assignment groups and weighted grading, rubrics for consistent evaluation, and tools such as SpeedGrader to streamline grading and feedback. The session will also discuss strategies for communicating feedback to students and managing grading processes more efficiently throughout a course.

Workshops are held daily and designed as a flexible course-building sprint before spring ends.  To respect faculty summer time, this is the ideal time to get hands-on support and learn to build courses in Canvas ahead of the fall!

📋 What You’ll Learn

✅ Assignment Groups & Weighted Grades: Explore how assignment groups can be used to organize assessments and how weighted grading can support different grading structures.

✅ Creating and using Rubrics for Clear Evaluation: Learn how to create a Canvas rubric and how rubrics can help communicate expectations, support consistent grading, and provide meaningful feedback to students.

✅ SpeedGrader Workflows: Review how SpeedGrader supports efficient grading, including adding comments, creating a comment library, annotations, and rubric-based feedback.

✅ Communicating Feedback to Students: Discuss strategies for sharing clear feedback with students and helping them understand their progress and performance.

✅ Hands-On Grading Practice: Apply concepts by exploring grading workflows in Canvas, including assignment groups, rubrics, and SpeedGrader tools.

✅ Wrap‑Up & Q&A: Reflect on strategies for effective course organization and leave with a practical foundation for continued course building.

🧑‍💻 Workshop Format
Because this is a hands-on workshop, participants will work directly in their own Canvas sandbox or development course to begin building or refining their course structure. The session will be spent by demonstrations from a Canvas consultant followed by ample time for participants to build in Canvas and ask questions. Join any portion of the session as your schedule allows.

💻 What to Bring
• A laptop
• Access to a Canvas sandbox or development course before attending.

👥 Hosted By

Kimberly Duhé, Sr Learning Consultant and Samantha Matthis, Instructional Designer, Instructure, in partnership with Academic Technologies