Overall Satisfaction with Canvas
The University of Iowa recently switched over to Canvas in order to manage our online resources for students in various courses. I have found Canvas to be MUCH more user-friendly and easy to use than our past web platform. My grading goes much faster, and I can easily update my course in ways I was not able to before. I attended to short training sessions on Canvas and immediately felt at ease with the program. I highly recommend it.
- The "Speedgrader" option is amazing! I can easily grade student papers and the rubrics are built right into the system!
- We do group assignments in my course and I can assign groups electronically and also assign peer evaluation for assignments electronically! It does it all for me and I love it.
- The ability to require "links" for submission is helpful to me when we ask our students to update websites for the course I teach. They submit the link, and I can access their site easily to do my grading!
- I enjoy the ability to view my site from the "Student View" so I know exactly what my students are seeing on Canvas!
- It took me a long time to figure out how to set up my "dashboard." I felt like it should have been easier considering how easy the rest of the program is to navigate.
- When you assign a peer evaluation to an assignment, the peer comments end up in the rubric and you have to erase them to write your own comments.
- My grading goes so much faster!
- I can communicate more easily with my students!
- My course feels more organized than it did before.