Publishing assignments in your Canvas course

Posted on: 10 May 2021 by Strategic Change Communications Team in Canvas at Liverpool

If you’re set as an ‘Instructor’ for a course in Canvas, you can publish (or unpublish) assignments. Unpublished assignments are invisible to students and excluded from all grade calculations, whereas published assignments are visible to students and form part of the grade calculations.

Creating assignments

You can add or create assignments directly within your Canvas course. Simply open the course you want to add an assignment to and then:

On the left-hand menu, select ‘Assignments'
Click the ‘+ Assignment’ button
Fill in the details of your assignment in the box prompts, including: name, assignment type, submission type, due dates, marks awards etc.

Publishing an assignment

Publishing an assignment within your course is simple. Make sure you have the correct course open and then:

On the left-hand menu, select ‘Assignments’
On the ‘Assignments Index’ page, you can view the status of each assignment. Green icons indicate the course is published, whereas grey icons indicate unpublished courses.
To publish a course, click on the grey unpublished icon and click it. It should then change to green. To unpublish, simply do the same to a published course.

Find out more

For more on Canvas at Liverpool, check out our blog here [link]. You can also contact the project team at canvas@liverpool.ac.uk.

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