{"id":8007,"date":"2019-11-19T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T09:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=8007"},"modified":"2025-02-24T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:37:09","slug":"collaborative-assessment-group-submissions-in-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2019\/11\/19\/collaborative-assessment-group-submissions-in-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative assessment: Group submissions in Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Canvas features a range of useful tools that facilitate group and collaborative work between students. These tools include collaborative Pages, Collaborations – online shared Google Docs or Office 365 documents, and Canvas Groups. In this post we are going to focus on Group assignments in Canvas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In order to create group assignments in your Canvas module you will first need to set up student Groups. Groups are effectively a \u2018mini module\u2019 within your Canvas module site which provide students with their own tools for collaborative work. To find out more about Groups see our previous post Canvas Highlights \u2013 2. Groups<\/a> and to learn how to set up groups see How do I automatically create groups in a group set?<\/a> or How do I manually create groups in a group set?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once your student groups are created you can then move on to setting up your group assignment. To do this first go to Assignments in the module menu where you can create a new assignment. For Canvas assignment students can submit a range of content including any type of file, video or audio recordings, or a website URL. You then simply tick the box to indicate \u2018This is a group assignment\u2019 and select the Group Set that you have previously created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students would then choose one group member to submit on behalf of their group, with Canvas applying this submission to each member of the group. You can then provide feedback and a mark on this one submission rather than marking the same piece of work four or five times, saving you time when marking. Once marks are released, this mark and feedback is then provided to all members of the group. If needed, for example if there is a peer marking element in the assessment, you can choose to assign marks individually to each student. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a number of different ways that this type of assessment can be used, this could be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n