Canvas has finally addressed a longstanding shortcoming: the inability to assign pages, modules, and ungraded discussions to  specific sections or students. This is particularly helpful for instructors who have multiple sections in one course site, but useful for all kinds of situations where differentiating content will make the student experience more understandable.

If that’s not enough, another helpful new feature: you can now use rich content formatting and even record video and your screen as part of your feedback in SpeedGrader.

Check it out in the most recent of our Tips ‘n Techniques series: New in Canvas: Assigning Content & SpeedGrader Rich Content

A relatively new Canvas feature, the SpeedGrader Comment Library, allows instructors to easily save and re-use responses, routine or otherwise, across their Canvas courses.

Re-use can be a good thing! Because they have a broad overview of their feedback and comments across a course, instructors can feel ambivalent (or worse) about reusing comments and feedback for multiple students. But the reality is, as long as the comment is accurate and aligned with your grading criteria, the comment is new and useful to the individual student.

Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Save Time with the SpeedGrader Comment Library