Assignments and Assessment Builder in Canvas

Overview

You can embed Assignments in multiple places across Canvas, such as Assignments, Discussions, Pages, Quizzes, Modules, and more. Here, we use Assignments as the example, but the steps to access and embed Discovery Education resources are the same and are typically available wherever a rich text editor is present in Canvas. 

Embedding via Rich Text Editor

To embed a Discovery Education assessment resource into a Canvas assignment, follow these steps: 

1. From Courses, navigate to Assignments in the left menu bar and select +Assignment. In the new assignment, add an Assignment Name and enter assignment instructions.
2. From Apps (plug icon), select View All > Discovery Education. A pop out window opens. Depending on access, the Discovery Education logo may appear on the action bar.                       
3. From Assessments, embed a resource from My Assessments or Course Assessments.   
   • My Assessments: Access assessments created and/or saved from Assessment Builder or Studio. 
   • Course Assessments: Search by Course and Concept to access assessments from your Techbook (Techbook license required). 
4. Once you locate an assessment, select Embed to insert into Canvas. 
5. Complete the remaining assignment information in Canvas and select Save & Publish to give students access.  

This Assessment is not grade passback compatible, because the Assessment was added in the rich text editor. To enable grade passback, see below.

Enabling Grade Passback

You must complete these steps from a Canvas Assignment in order to enable grade passback. Canvas does not allow grade passback via Discussions, Pages, or Modules. 

To embed a Discovery Education assessment resource with grade passback, follow these steps: 

1. From Courses, navigate to Assignments in the left menu bar and select +Assignment. In the new assignment, add an Assignment Name and enter assignment instructions.
2. For Submission Type, select External Tool, and click Find. Choose Discovery Education. A pop out window opens.                                            
3. From Assessments, embed a resource from My Assessments or Course Assessments.
   • My Assessments: Access assessments created and/or saved from Assessment Builder or Studio. 
   • Course Assessments: Search by Course and Concept to access assessments from your Techbook (Techbook license required). 
4. Once you locate an assessment, select Embed to insert into Canvas. 
5. Complete the remaining assignment information in Canvas and select Save & Publish to give students access.  
6. Once the student completes the Assignment, you may see either a score populate the gradebook, or an indicator that teacher grading is required. This depends on whether you have automatically scored questions in the Assessment (like multiple choice), or teacher graded questions (like free response). 

As grades are entered, they are accessible in real time within the Discovery Education Assignment Manager. There is no risk of an "un-synced" gradebook while completing this process.