Overview: Feedback
Feedback is one of the most fundamentally important habits of good teaching. Much more than just assigning scores, the feedback you provide to students on their work is one of the crucial pieces of what helps them move from point A to point B in their understanding and mastery of course content.
Feedback can take many shapes and forms, from simple comments in a discussion to more elaborate markups on a research paper. The scope and depth depends on the importance of the work and the needs of your students (and how much time you have!). Choosing wisely what types of feedback on which to spend your time is part of growing as an instructor, not just for efficiency but also for quality!
Canvas provides a number of ways to give feedback to your students, so this week we'll spend some time exploring those tools and thinking about our strategies.
Have fun with this unit. This is what teaching is all about!
This Week's Activities
- Read chapters 9 and 10 in our textbook, Excellent! Online Teaching.
- Learn about different ways to give and get feedback using Canvas tools:
- Review the Top Ten Recommendations for Feedback
- Take the Week 8 Quiz
If you have any questions, you can post in the Virtual Office, or message your facilitator with the Inbox tool.
Canvas Guides
- SpeedGrader
- Creating Rubrics
- Using Free-Form Comments in Rubrics
- Grading with Rubrics
- Surveys in Canvas
Additional Resources and Literature
- Death to the Dropbox Links to an external site., 2010
- The Power of Presence: Our Quest... Links to an external site., 2014
- Enhancing Online Learning with Canvas Media Links to an external site., 2011
- 7 Things You Should Know About Assessing Online Team-Based Learning Links to an external site., 2010
- Down and Dirty Guidelines for Effective Discussion in Online Courses Links to an external site., 2009