Team based assignments in Canvas

Question

Hello all!, my name is Eden Blair, and I teach organizational creativity and entrepreneurship at Bradley University. I’m using Lucid through Canvas for my classes. I didn’t see this in this forum.

Students often have team-based assignments to complete that they submit in Assignments as a group assignment. I follow this method:

Create a template with a force-copy link.
Put the link into a team assignment in Canvas.
One student clicks the link and shares with teammates.
They complete the assignment, then download it as a PDF.
One student submits the PDF in the group assignment (the PDF allows me to have a timestamp rather than just a link to the assignment).

This works, but it’s tedious and can take quite a bit of time for them to share it with each other, especially as they are learning how to use the software early in the semester. Does anyone have a better way to create this or faster way to share it?

Vanessa C101 · Accepted Answer

​@esblairHere is another method you could try. Easier for students, slightly more work for the instructor. Video Walkthrough.#1: Make the assignment. Use the collaborative embed (black L in RCE) to add the Lucid template. Choose No submission, URL Link or File upload as the submission type.#2: Copy the assignment into the same course#3: Rename each Copy of the assignment - Group 1, Group 2, etc#4: Go into each assignment copy andassign it to the students for that group. Then go into the next assignment copy and add the specific students for that group. Repeat for each group.P.S. We are working with Canvas to get Lucid assignments compatible with Canvas group functionality. I don’t have an ETA, but this is something we are working toward.

Cory Bougher · Answer

Do you have students in groups in Canvas before the assignment is assigned?

When you attach a Lucid template to an individual student assignment, it makes a copy for each student…..but if you assign the assignment to a group, does it automatically give access of the same Lucid instance to all members of that group? I can’t test this because my current courses do not have groups and my Canvas admin access gives me super access everywhere!

However, I have attached Lucid templates to individual student assignments, but students did not have to save as a PDF to submit - it holds their work in the template that autocopied for them upon opening so I can use in SpeedGrader.

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