[MODULE 4] Using the Speedgrader and Crocodoc
The SpeedGrader™ allows you to view different types of assignment submissions in one place, make text and audio comments to students, and grade using different methods, such as rubrics. Crocodoc is a tool integrated within SpeedGrader to help instructors annotate and provide additional feedback.
What Can You Do with SpeedGrader™?
Providing adequate feedback to students can enhance student engagement and learning. The SpeedGrader™ has several places where instructors can offer feedback:
- Post a grade directly to the gradebook.
- View and use the rubric (if the assignment has a rubric attached).
- Add general comments which can start back-and-forth discussions around the assignment.
- Provide students with written, video, and audio commentary
- Include additional attachments
- Download the original submission.
In the SpeedGrader™, instructors can also view the date/time of a student submission (and you'll be alerted if the submission was late).
Click to view additional details of the SpeedGrader.
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What Can You Do with Crocodoc?
Crocodoc is a tool that allows teacher and peer review annotations on submissions of online assignments in Canvas. When a student submits an assignment, the file is uploaded as a submission to the course and to the student's personal file repository. If Crocodoc cannot convert a submission, Scribd or Google Preview will convert it, depending on the preview tool you use.
Crocodoc supports .doc/.docx, .ppt/.pptx, .xls/.xlsx (in beta), and .pdf file formats.
NOTE: Files over 100MB and password protected files will not be converted by Crocodoc.
As instructors, Crocodoc allows you to annotate submissions in the following ways:
- Add comments to a document in the side bar.
- Add additional text to a document.
- Highlight text.
- Strikeout text.
- Draw directly on a document.
- Download original document submission.
Click to view the annotation tools in Crocodoc in greater detail. Links to an external site.