39 STEPS

1. Let's get started. There are various ways to create an assignment. You can create assignments on your calendar, on the modules page, or on the assignments page. Let's create one on the assignments page. Click Assignments.

2. Click the Add Assignment icon.

3. Here you'll enter some basic information to get started. Begin by typing a Name for your assignment.

4. Let's assign a due date. Click the calendar icon.

5. Let's select the 19th for this assignment.

6. Click Done

7. You can enter the Point value for the assignment or leave it blank. You can modify the points later.

8. With this information, you can save the assignment as is and enter the assignment details later. Let's add more content. Click More Options.

9. You can modify the assignment name if you need to.

10. Click the assignment content window to enter your assignment details.

11. Now we can change some of the assignment settings. Click the Display Grade as dropdown menu.

12. You can assign grades as a percentage, as a Complete/Incomplete, individual points, letter grade, GPA scale, or an ungraded assignment. For now, let's choose the Complete/Incomplete option, which will allow us to grade as a pass or fail assignment.

13. In the Submission Type dropdown, you can determine how students will submit the work. No Submission might be an option for in-class presentations, whereas Online would require student to post to Canvas. On paper might be for in-person typed papers.

14. Let's choose the Online submission option.

15. There are several types of online entry options, and you can select more than one option. We will have students upload their submission, as opposed to typing it out, recording media, or sharing a website link. Click the File Uploads checkbox.

16. If you want to restrict what type of file students upload - for example, a document, spreadsheet, or video - then click Restrict Upload File Types.

17. Type the file extension in the box.

18. If you want to limit the amount of times a student can submit an assignment, then click the Submission Attempts dropdown menu.

19. You can choose between Unlimited and Limited. Click Limited.

20. Type out the Number of Attempts that you will permit for this assignment.

21. If you want to make this a group assignment then click the checkbox called This is a Group Assignment.

22. You can select from a Group Set that you have created in the People tab, or create a new Group Set for this assignment.

23. If you would like students to have the opportunity to review each others' work then click the checkbox Require Peer Reviews.

24. Here you can choose to either manually assign students to review other students, or have Canvas randomly assign students to each other. You can modify automatically assigned peer reviews. Check the box Peer Reviews Appear Anonymously.

25. Let's add an Available from date. This will indicate the starting date when students will have access to the assignment. Click the calendar icon.

26. Let's choose the 14th as the first date when students will have access to the assignment.

27. Now let's add an Until date. This will indicate the last day when students will have access to the assignment. Click the calendar icon.

28. Let's choose the 21st as the last day when students will have access to the assignment.

29. When we first created the basic assignment details, it set the assignment to be due at midnight the morning of the due date. I want them to have the day to submit the assignment and need to modify the hour the assignment is due.

30. Click the calendar icon.

31. I set the due time for 11:59pm. Click Done.

32. Click Save

33. Since we clicked Save and not Save and Publish, we still need to publish our assignment. Review the content and then click Publish.

34. Click Assignments to see your assignment in the course list.

35. Now let's add the assignment to a module. Click Modules.

36. In the module where you want to add the assignment, click the Add Content icon.

37. Select Reflection Journal 4.3 from the dropdown.

38. Click Add Item

39. That's it. You're done.