View Assignments and Give Feedback

You can use Canvas to give students feedback on their submitted work. DocViewer is one tool that you can use to give students feedback on their work. DocViewer allows you to comment, draw and otherwise annotate documents which students have submitted as assignments.

To learn more about using DocViewer, view the following video:

Open DocViewer

DocViewer is part of Canvas' SpeedGrader tool. To access DocViewer through SpeedGrader use the following steps:

In Course Navigation, click the Assignments link.
Click the name of the assignment.
The SpeedGrader link will appear in the sidebar under Related Items.

Open SpeedGrader from a Graded Assignment or Quiz

Use DocViewer to leave feedback

The DocViewer Toolbar helps you manage the assignment submission.

To download a PDF of the annotated submission, click the Download button [1].

If there are multiple pages, the Page number field [2] will let you advance through the submission to find the page you want to annotate. To go to another page, enter the page number in the Page field. You can also use the arrow icons [3] to advance through the submission.

To rotate the current page 90 degrees clockwise, click the Rotate button [4]. Pages with annotations cannot be rotated.

To zoom in and out on the submission, use the Zoom buttons [5].

To view the submission in full screen, click the Full Screen button [6].

To annotate the submission, use the annotation tools [7].

You can find more detailed instructions about viewing assignments and giving feedback by following the links below.