1 00:00:01,110 --> 00:00:03,660 Hello, my name is Kristen Allen. 2 00:00:03,660 --> 00:00:15,200 And in this video, Nick Wilson and I will talk about how to give better feedback with Google cloud assignments in Canvas. 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:21,440 First, I will talk about how I use this tool in my ED245 class this semester. 4 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:27,320 and then Nick will go over the practical steps for how you can use the Google cloud assignment's tool in your own course. 5 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:33,350 So this presentation will cover some basics of what we talk about in ED245. 6 00:00:33,350 --> 00:00:37,520 Why the Google cloud assignments fit the class that I teach. 7 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:42,470 How you can give feedback and how students in my course responded this semester. 8 00:00:42,470 --> 00:00:48,320 So why did I decide Google cloud assignments would be a good fit for my course. 9 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:51,140 Well, first of all, when I taught in person, 10 00:00:51,140 --> 00:00:59,330 I typically used exit tickets to check for understanding at the end of the class and I wanted to do this in our online class. 11 00:00:59,330 --> 00:01:07,340 I wasn't sure the best way to do that. Normally, I would have a template that I would print off and hand out to my students, 12 00:01:07,340 --> 00:01:13,930 and I wasn't sure how to get a template to students in an easy way on Canvas that wouldn't require them to download a file. 13 00:01:13,930 --> 00:01:22,070 Do bunch of things and upload it. And as I was looking, I saw Google Cloud Assignments actually lets you push a template to all of your students. 14 00:01:22,070 --> 00:01:30,080 They don't even have to make a copy. It just opens right away. And I thought this would be a great way for me to do my exit tickets. 15 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:34,370 I also had other assignments that I wanted to use templates for. 16 00:01:34,370 --> 00:01:38,570 And so I use it in several ways, not just for those exit tickets. 17 00:01:38,570 --> 00:01:47,300 I also found when looking into this tool that I can give really quick feedback in the form of Google comments on their documents. 18 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:54,290 And just from my work with students, I know they're used to this type of commenting on Google forms. 19 00:01:54,290 --> 00:01:57,350 And so I thought maybe they would be able to find that easier than some of 20 00:01:57,350 --> 00:02:02,520 the Canvas comments. I was finding in Canvas that I would include comments. 21 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:07,610 Those submission comments and even ask questions and students wouldn't respond back. 22 00:02:07,610 --> 00:02:12,500 So I thought I could give this a try and see if students would respond. 23 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:20,480 And also, Google Cloud Assignments allows for the instructor to upload a rubric to each assignment. 24 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:25,160 And I thought this would be a really quick way for me to grade student work. 25 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:31,880 And finally, since I this class would primarily be geared towards educators, future educators, 26 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,800 I want and I wanted these students to be exposed to Google Apps since many schools 27 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:42,950 and nonprofits actually use Google and Google products in their environments. 28 00:02:42,950 --> 00:02:48,500 I gave my students feedback in three ways using this Google cloud assignment's tool. 29 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:52,520 First, they could see their score on an assignment through the rubric. 30 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:59,450 They could see where they got points or missed points on each assignment very clearly with the attached rubric. 31 00:02:59,450 --> 00:03:07,670 The only downside I found to this rubric was once I created it, there was no way to get back into edit it, which was a little difficult for me. 32 00:03:07,670 --> 00:03:16,280 I had to a couple of times just recreate some of my assignments so that I could correct a rubric and that was a little bit of a frustration. 33 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:22,250 However, overall, that didn't seem to be such a big problem. So I did continue to use it through the semester. 34 00:03:22,250 --> 00:03:27,440 Next, there's a couple ways to make comments using the Google cloud assignments. 35 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:33,260 One is when you open up a student document, you're actually in something called a suggesting mode. 36 00:03:33,260 --> 00:03:35,960 And so you could comment on syntax and grammar. 37 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:42,590 Actually, by like highlighting and deleting or adding in your own grammatical comments directly on their paper. 38 00:03:42,590 --> 00:03:50,030 And if you wanted to then return that paper to the students, they could actually take those suggestions and implement them in their paper. 39 00:03:50,030 --> 00:03:58,850 And I thought that was really quick and easy way to give that feedback. I found this workflow a lot faster than the traditional Canvas assignments. 40 00:03:58,850 --> 00:04:02,090 And as I said earlier, you can comment on the content as well. 41 00:04:02,090 --> 00:04:12,020 And this will add a little Pop-Up Box to the right of the paper that has a timestamp of who you are and what you said. 42 00:04:12,020 --> 00:04:21,380 And finally, I took some of my students responses to their exit tickets and used that as whole class feedback. 43 00:04:21,380 --> 00:04:27,920 So I took some of the best responses and just copied and pasted really quickly into a new document 44 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:33,950 and made those kind of exemplary examples that we went over the next time we met as a class. 45 00:04:33,950 --> 00:04:42,230 So this Google Cloud Assignment's tool was new to all of my students and for the most part, they found it very easy to use. 46 00:04:42,230 --> 00:04:46,430 There were a couple of students who said the interface was difficult to figure out. 47 00:04:46,430 --> 00:04:53,030 And one of the things that made it difficult was I said earlier I could push out templates, but the template wasn't the default. 48 00:04:53,030 --> 00:04:56,990 They could actually upload or create a whole new document themselves. 49 00:04:56,990 --> 00:05:03,170 So not all of my students actually saw or opened the template the first time we tried this as a class. 50 00:05:03,170 --> 00:05:08,060 So if you're gonna use us, definitely do a little bit of a tutorial with your students. 51 00:05:08,060 --> 00:05:14,060 I asked my students for some feedback and they said it would have been very helpful to go over the tool first because it was new to 52 00:05:14,060 --> 00:05:15,360 everyone. 53 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:25,640 And then what I was most excited about and really enjoyed about this tool was the fact that several of my students replied to my comments on their work. 54 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:34,640 When I use Canvas assignments, I left a lot of feedback and I would ask questions and try to encourage interaction, 55 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:41,720 which we know is especially important in an online environment. And it was so hard to get students to respond. 56 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:46,190 And for some reason, this Google tool really fit with their needs. 57 00:05:46,190 --> 00:05:52,190 They commented back, I would ask them questions and we had some back and forth conversations. 58 00:05:52,190 --> 00:05:58,160 One exit ticket, I asked them, what questions do you still have about the content that we covered today? 59 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,180 And they asked me questions and I was able to give them more information, 60 00:06:02,180 --> 00:06:08,720 either information that they had from class or deeper links for the for the topics that they were interested in. 61 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:14,390 And that was really fun to be able to send them down a rabbit hole and go deeper into their own interests. 62 00:06:14,390 --> 00:06:21,710 So overall, I really enjoyed this tool. It helped me have more presence with my students in an online environment, 63 00:06:21,710 --> 00:06:25,520 which was something honestly I was so worried about at the start of the pandemic. 64 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:31,940 And this tool, just fit a sweet spot where we could have back and forth conversations and build more 65 00:06:31,940 --> 00:06:34,460 Student instructor interaction. 66 00:06:34,460 --> 00:06:42,260 So if you're thinking about giving students more feedback, I would highly encourage you to check out the Google Cloud Assignments tool. 67 00:06:42,260 --> 00:06:46,910 Now that Kristen showing you some of the awesome ways you can use the Google tool and your canvas course, 68 00:06:46,910 --> 00:06:50,690 hopefully you're asking yourself, well, how do I set one up? 69 00:06:50,690 --> 00:06:54,410 And it's actually done very similar to any other Canvas assignment. 70 00:06:54,410 --> 00:06:59,690 First step is we want to have something in our Google Drive that we're going to use as the assignment. 71 00:06:59,690 --> 00:07:02,000 And that could be any of the Google suite of tools. 72 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:08,960 Obviously, the most common are your Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, but it doesn't have to be just any of those. 73 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:16,040 So if we jump over to my Google Drive here, I've created a sample on a worksheet with some questions that I'm going to ask students. 74 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:25,640 And this is what each student will get a copy of. So then I'm going to jump back to Canvas and I'm going to make sure I'm in my canvas assignments. 75 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:30,860 Click plus assignment. And then these first steps are identical to any Canvas assignments. 76 00:07:30,860 --> 00:07:36,380 I'm going to give it some title and some directions. 77 00:07:36,380 --> 00:07:40,850 I can also then put in the points that's important to know the points that you're going to use here, 78 00:07:40,850 --> 00:07:47,330 because there's another screen that will want to enter the exact same points. Some I am going to use 50 on this one. 79 00:07:47,330 --> 00:07:53,450 You can select your assignment group and how you want your points to display. And then this is the important difference. 80 00:07:53,450 --> 00:07:59,870 So if you use the Canvas assignments before this probably defaults to online where you normally would pick, 81 00:07:59,870 --> 00:08:09,020 like file upload or text entry, your submission type. But for the new Google tool, we want to make sure we're on the external tool here. 82 00:08:09,020 --> 00:08:14,540 And then we are going to find our Google assignments tool. So you might find two in here. 83 00:08:14,540 --> 00:08:19,190 If you do, we want to make sure we're on Google assignments 1.3. 84 00:08:19,190 --> 00:08:25,100 That's the new one. So we're gonna click that first time that we launched this. 85 00:08:25,100 --> 00:08:30,890 It's gonna make sure that we are who we want to link to. So let's just says that I want to use my Google Drive. 86 00:08:30,890 --> 00:08:36,710 So we're gonna continue to that. And then this is where we're gonna find that worksheet that I just created. 87 00:08:36,710 --> 00:08:44,480 So going to click attach and you can search right here, but I conveniently have mine located right here since I've been playing with that. 88 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:48,720 And we're going to click add. And then this is where we want to put the exact points. 89 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:53,330 So you'll notice a little note here. Make sure we match the points. So I used 50. 90 00:08:53,330 --> 00:08:56,990 So I'm going to use 50 again. I can also select a date. 91 00:08:56,990 --> 00:09:00,100 So let's just say we're gonna make this due on April 30th. 92 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:08,480 And if I had a rubric, I can add in that rubric right here and I'll get to use that rubric for scoring in the grading portion. 93 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:12,420 So I'm going to say create. 94 00:09:12,420 --> 00:09:21,990 And then we're just going to say select, and that fills in our URL here and then the amount of attempts ultimately won't matter for this. 95 00:09:21,990 --> 00:09:29,300 And I can go hand assigning to everybody. So I'm going to make sure that I have the 30th again and I'm going to save and publish. 96 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:35,880 Well, what's that's gonna do is it pushes it out to all the students. So they will each now be able to submit the assignment. 97 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:40,620 And you'll notice this screen is a little bit different than your normal assignment screen. 98 00:09:40,620 --> 00:09:45,020 You can still use SpeedGrader and grade it like normal, normal Google 99 00:09:45,020 --> 00:09:53,310 sorry, a normal Canvas assignment. But we also might want to take advantage of some of those cool new Google assignment tools. 100 00:09:53,310 --> 00:09:57,770 So I have a CITL done here that I had Kristen submit something for me. 101 00:09:57,770 --> 00:09:59,640 And so we're gonna click on that. 102 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:07,980 And if you've ever used Turnitin this screen looks very similar to Turnitin where it will list the students and their submissions. 103 00:10:07,980 --> 00:10:15,420 And so I'm going to click on this and it's going to pull up her Google doc and I can actually open this at any time. 104 00:10:15,420 --> 00:10:21,450 So once it's been assigned, all the students will show there as soon as they click on the Google assignment. 105 00:10:21,450 --> 00:10:27,810 So Kristen's gone ahead and put her name in there. She has actually submitted it so I can put in a score. 106 00:10:27,810 --> 00:10:30,180 That's one I made out of 100instead of 50. 107 00:10:30,180 --> 00:10:38,550 And I went ahead and put a comment, but I have not returned it back to her so I can continue to mark this up until I'm done and ready to send it back. 108 00:10:38,550 --> 00:10:42,570 And then I can click return and that will send it back to Kristen. 109 00:10:42,570 --> 00:10:46,750 And the grade that I put in here will go into my Canvas gradebook. 110 00:10:46,750 --> 00:10:56,894 So I am going to go ahead and click return. And it's going to tell her that she's got 100 out of 100 and then grading is done for this assignment.