This article describes how instructors can add google assignments to canvas, allowing students to work and submit from Google Workspace, and instructors to then grade assignments there. The key differences between using a regular Canvas assignment are:

• Students can create and submit their assignment entirely in Google Workspace and have its full suite of tools at hand
• Instructors can markup, grade, and return assignments within the Google Workspace environment or the Canvas Speedgrader
• Originality reports can check for missing citations and plagiarism against publicly available web pages
  
  

Adding a Google Assignment

From the Assignments section, click the Add Assignment button:

Enter the assignment details- name, points, assignment group, etc., then set the submission type to "External Tool", then click the "find" button. Select Google Assignments (LTI 1.3) from the list.

A window will prompt you to link the assignment to your Google Account. Make sure your ualberta.ca account is the one listed here, not any personal Google account that your browser might also be signed into (click "switch account" if an incorrect one is listed). Click "Continue."

The next screen will prompt you to select whether to check plagiarism, attach template files for submission if applicable, and you can select whether to grade in Google assignments or the Canvas Speedgrader. Choosing the speedgrader is effectively the same as grading a submitted pdf file in Canvas, the file is read-only but markups can be added on top. If you plan to use a Canvas rubric you should select the speedgrader option- Google has its own rubric system with a rubric editor, but these remain within the Google Assignments ecosystem. You can add a canvas rubric to an already-created Google assignment, but it will be effectively nonfunctional as the assignments won't show up in the speedgrader. 

Once the details are entered, you'll return to the configure external tool menu, click the "Select" button. 

You can complete any additional assignment details, then click "Save" or "Save and Publish."

Grading submissions:

Google assignments has its own grading interface, accessible by clicking a submission showing in the assignment. If the student submits a Google document, the submission will open in a google docs interface, set by default to "suggesting".

In both PDF submissions and Google doc files, there is an inline comment button but pdf submissions aren't otherwise editable:

Other notes:

• Submissions will appear in both students' and instructors' Google Drive, in a folder called Assignments>>[Coursename]>>[assignmentname]
• Both the student and instructor will own separate copies of the submission until it's returned
• Students aren't able to view comments or edits made in the grading interface until the assignment is returned