5.1 | Overview
Overview
Grading is an important and emotionally charged conversation in today's educational institutions. Inconsistent grading practices and the ways they can inadvertently perpetuate achievement and opportunity gaps among students make grading an issue of equity. Instructors strive to provide personalized, authentic feedback to students, however to optimize the value of such feedback in must be returned to students in a timely manner and must follow equitable grading practices.
By using the tools in the Canvas Gradebook and SpeedGrader, and by developing native Canvas Rubrics, instructors are able to promote equitable, authentic, and individualized learning. Consider these factors:
Canvas Tools
- Using the Canvas Gradebook and regularly publishing assessment scores helps to provide transparency for students in their course progress
- The Canvas Gradebook has many helpful features including anonymous grading, muting assignments, and the ability to easily excuse assignments
- Canvas Rubrics present assessment criteria in the most accessible format for those navigating the course using screen reading technology
- Rubrics promote objective grading, which in turn promotes equity in grading
Overview Video
The following video (3:24) provides an overview to equitable grading practices.
Works Cited. Prefer to read than watch? Check out the video transcript.
Canvas Guides
Also check out these short videos for an introduction to the Canvas Gradebook, Canvas SpeedGrader, and Rubric features.
- Canvas Guide: Gradebook Links to an external site. (9:06)
- Canvas Guide: SpeedGrader Links to an external site. (3:06)
- Canvas Guide: Rubrics Links to an external site. (4:26)
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