Assign2 is a third-party tool that allows students to upload paper assessments to be graded online. Instructors can also create scannable PDF paper submissions for in-person exams and online peer-graded assessments.

Assign2 allows students to complete solutions for long-form problems on paper and photograph or scan them to upload as their assessment submission. For in-person exams, the exam contains the exam questions and a form students complete to identify their work.

The following are instructions for setting up Assign2 in Canvas.

Creating a Canvas Assign2 Assignment

1. First, make certain that Assignments are not visible in your course navigation Settings:

2. Create and set up an Assignment.

Note: Be sure to set an availability date in the assignment or the Assign2 settings as students could open Assign2 early from the Grade book. Do not set a due date, as the submissions will be marked as submitted when the grades are pushed, not when the students submit. Put the due date in the assignment description and set it within assign2 to enforce it. 

As well, leave the submission attempts set to "Unlimited". This should also be controlled within Assign2 rather than the Canvas assignment settings (limiting attempts won't cause an issue for students but will prevent you from pushing grades from the tool more than once).


3. Add the Assign2 LTI to it:

• For Submission Type, choose External Tool.
  
• Click Find.
• In the configuration dialog, select 'Assign 2', then click Select:

4. Check the box ‘Load this tool in a new tab’.
5. Save and Publish the assignment.
6. Once you have saved the assignment, click on ‘Load <assignment name> in a new window.’

Configuring Assign2

Assign2 can be configured in 3 different ways. These options are the same ones available for eClass and are described in detail in the following articles:

1. Creating Online Homework Assignments Using Assign2

Instructors can create online homework assessments using the Assign2 external tool in their eClass course. Assign2 allows students to capture long-form written work as image files that can be uploaded for instructors to mark online using a time-saving interface. 

2. Creating In-Class Paper (PDF) Exams to be Graded Online Using Assign2

Instructors can create PDF exam forms to grade exams or assignments completed on paper by students in class.

3. Delivering Group Paper (PDF) Exams Using Assign2

Instructors can deliver 2-stage (group) exams using the 'In class PDF Assessment (Beta)' workflow in Assign2. This method of exam delivery allows students to take the exam individually at first and then take a second version of the exam as a group to discuss as peers to come to a consensus or debate about the correct answers. All students in the group then receive the same mark for the combined part of the assessment (most often some lesser proportion of the overall grade than their original assessment score.) General setup and grading General Assign2 setup instructions are available at Managing Student Assignments in Assign2. Help with grading Assign2 submissions is available Marking Student Submissions in Assign2.

Attempt management and grading

Instructions on how to manage Assign2 assessments are available at Managing Student Assignments in Assign2.

Details for grading in Assign2 are available at Marking Student Submissions in Assign2.
Important note: Unlike eClass, When pushing grades from Assign2 you should always first click "Update users from LMS" button from the student roster page, otherwise grades may not be pushed to the Canvas gradebook.