Find tools to help facilitate general assignments, formative quizzes, or student peer assessment assignments. All tools recommended by the LT Hub have passed a UBCPrivacy Impact Assessmentand receive central technical and pedagogical support.
General Assignments
Tools that facilitate assignments can save you time by reducing workload for management, grading, and feedback.
General Tips
- Communicate clear expectations and instructions for every assignment, especially in a fully online context.
- Include and explain your rubrics for marking assignments, putting these criteria in the tools where possible to make grading more transparent.
- Break down larger projects or assignments into stages and provide opportunities for feedback along the way.
Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
Low(a slow Internet connection should not impact basic access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
Canvas Assignments
Collect individual or group assignments through Canvas.
What are the benefits?
- Students can submit their assignment using text entry, a file upload, an Internet link, or a media recording.
- You can also collect group assignments, if you set up Canvas groups.
- By setting up a rubric in Canvas to grade students’ submitted work, assignment grades will automatically be added to the Canvas gradebook.
Respondus
Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
Low(a slow Internet connection should not impact basic access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
Respondus Studymate
Create study content such as games, flash cards, and quizzes (if you are on a Windows computer).
What are the benefits?
- Studymate lets you convert supported text files (.txt, .rtf, QTI .xml, .doc, and .docx) into interactive questions and assessments.
- Assessments can also be exported as Word or text files and then printed for in-class use.
Turnitin
Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
Low(a slow Internet connection should not impact basic access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
Yes, for grading: This tool cannot be synced with Canvas due to data being stored in the U.S. Pleasecontact usfor available workarounds in managing classlists and grades.
Turnitin
Automatically check written work for plagiarism and provide individual feedback for each student on their submission.
What are the benefits?
- You can check students’ written work against Turnitin’s content databases to catch potential plagiarism.
- Submissions in Turnitin can be graded right in the tool (though grades are not synced with Canvas), where you can provide individualized feedback to each students as well.
Webwork
WebworkCost for use:
None
带宽需求:
Low(a slow Internet connection should not impact basic access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
Webwork
Give assignments and quizzes using numeric problems and equations.
What are the benefits?
- You can set up numeric problems for students to solve that are structured within larger homework sets and/or quizzes.
- Problems can be your own or chosen from a wide vetted library of problems that other instructors have used.
- Webwork can be set up to give immediate automated feedback after students answer each question and allow for multiple attempts.
Formative Quizzes
Tools for quizzes promote learning, whether they are used for grades or for practice only. (For summative assessments like exams, see therayapp3 .)
General Tips
- Auto-graded quizzes give students opportunities to practice and reduce your marking time.
- When available, including rich automated feedback for formative quizzes and problems can help students learn not just the correct answer but the rationale behind it.
Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
Low(a slow Internet connection should not impact basic access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
Canvas Quizzes
Distribute quizzes, surveys, and exams for students within your Canvas course.
What are the benefits?
- Canvas quizzes support twelve different question types, including multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, multiple answers, matching, numerical answer, formula, essay, and file uploads.
- You can allow multiple attempts, randomize the question order, and accept late submissions or submissions only during a specific time window.
- Question banks can be built, so you can add to them questions you’ll use repeatedly.
Quiz
QuizCost for use:
None
带宽需求:
Low(a slow Internet connection should not impact basic access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
Respondus Quiz
Create and manage interactive quizzes (if you are on a Windows computer).
What are the benefits?
- Respondus Quiz lets you convert supported text files (e.g., spreadsheet) into interactive questions and assessments.
- Assessments can be exported as Word or text files and then printed for in-class use.
- You can also import assessments into your Canvas courses for distribution and grading.
创作
Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
High(a slow Internet connection may impact access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
创作in Canvas
Add quiz questions to videos that can pass outcomes to the Canvas gradebook, meaning students’ answers to your video quizzes can automatically impact their grade.
What are the benefits?
- In-video quizzes with Kaltura engage students as they watch video lectures and can integrate with the Canvas gradebook as assignments, if you want to track student performance.
- 您可以使用各种各样的格式问题:multiple choice (question with one correct answer), true/false, reflection point (video pause with text), and open question (free text answer).
- 创作provides other options for how students can interact with questions, such as skipping questions, getting hints, and discovering the correct answers. You can also shuffle the order of answers each time the question is presented.
Webwork
Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
Low(a slow Internet connection should not impact basic access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
Webwork
Give assignments and quizzes using numeric problems and equations.
What are the benefits?
- You can set up numeric problems for students to solve that are structured within larger homework sets and/or quizzes.
- Problems can be your own or chosen from a wide vetted library that other instructors have used.
- Webwork can be set up to give immediate automated feedback after students answer each question and allow for multiple attempts.
Student Peer Assessments
Student peer assessment tools facilitate assignments where you have students review, rate, and/or leave formative feedback on each other’s work.
General Tips
- Include clear and detailed assessment criteria to ensure more consistency between different student reviewers.
- Have students practice with 3-4 sample assignments that have already been assessed by an expert (e.g., you) using the same criteria they will be using.
- Talk to students aboutthe reasons that you are using peer assessmentin your course, to reduce their anxiety in being assessed and assessing their peers.
CLAS
Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
High(a slow Internet connection may impact access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
CLAS (Collaborative Learning Annotation System)
Add granular peer review to multimedia like videos with this streaming platform.
What are the benefits?
- CLAS allows for storing and streaming video content in a course.
- You can have students annotate and discuss multimedia using the contextual comments.
Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
Low(a slow Internet connection should not impact basic access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
ComPAIR
Have students compare and comment on pairs of peer work, using rubrics and instructions you set.
What are the benefits?
- Looking at pairs of work helps students provide higher quality feedback, as they can more easily identify strengths and weaknesses of each individual work using their innate comparative judgement.
- You can have students review their own work as part of the process, to encourage deeper self-reflection.
peerScholar
peerScholarCost for use:
None
带宽需求:
Low(a slow Internet connection should not impact basic access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
peerScholar
Ask students review individual peer work, as well as review the peer feedback they receive, using highly flexible rubrics.
What are the benefits?
- The customizable rubrics allow you to set both the criteria and the format of the student responses. Students can also annotate directly on certain types of peer work, allowing for a high degree of granularity in their reviews.
- By choosing to have students review each other’s feedback, you can create stronger accountability for students in writing thoughtful feedback and offer another opportunity for peer learning.
- You can ask students to review their own work as part of the process as well as resubmit their work, to encourage deeper self-reflection.
Cost for use:
None
带宽需求:
Low(a slow Internet connection should not impact basic access)
Requirements for FIPPA compliant use:
None
PeerWise
Ask students to create questions and then have them answer, rate, and comment on questions submitted by their peers.
What are the benefits?
- You can encourage studying for upcoming quizzes or exams using these question-and-answer assignments.
- By including peer ratings and comments, you can add a gamification aspect that may help motivate students to develop stronger questions and study more.