Submitting an Google Doc Assignment in Canvas (#lscanvas)

You want:

• To create a Google Doc for an assignment.
• Then have each student get a copy of that Doc.
• The students then write on that Doc.
• They then turn it into Canvas to be graded

Solution:

Start by creating the Google Doc you want the kids to complete.

Open your Canvas course.

1. Create an assignment.

2. Title it.

3. Add some context to the assignment.

4. Scroll down to Submission Type. Select External Tool. Then Find Google Drive by clicking Find.

1. When you clicked on Find you should see this new window pop up.

2. Find and click Google Docs Cloud Assignment.

Search your Drive to find the Google Doc you created for the assignment.

1. Click the assignment.

2. Click Submit.

Click Select.

1. You should now see an address.

2. Click Save or Save & Publish.

This is what you will see as a teacher.

A student will need to log in and click on the assignment to launch it.

They can complete the whole assignment in Canvas if they wanted to. When they are done they must click Submit to turn the Doc in.

Once they have clicked on the assignment, the Doc will appear inside their personal Google Drive. 

There will be a Lindbergh Schools file in Drive, inside that the subfolders are organized by course.

In this sample, you can see the student typed in Canvas and Drive.

They need to return to Canvas to click Submit.

Then the teacher clicks on Grades.

Next, they click on the title of the assignment found at the very top of the grade book.

Click on SpeedGrader in the upper right.

Grade.

Click Submit.

Click the little arrow to advance to the next uploaded doc.