How do I use and navigate Assignments in Canvas?
Apr 24, 2026
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Canvas Assignments Overview
Canvas Assignments include Quizzes (assessments and surveys), graded Discussions, and online submissions (paper submissions). The Assignments page shows your students all of the Assignments that will be expected of them in the course and how many points each one is worth. You can assign a particular Assignment to the entire class, one group of students, or a single student. To learn how to do this, see the "Differentiated Assignments" link below. You can also create peer review assignments that require students to offer feedback on one another's work. For more information, see the "peer review" link below.
Further Resources
- Full list of Instructor Assignments Resources
- How do I use the Assignments Index Page?
- What is the difference between assignment due dates and availability dates?
- How do I create an assignment?
- How do I create an assignment shell in an assignment group?
- How do I add an assignment group in a course?
- How do I create an online assignment?
- How do I create a Lucid assignment?
- How to I add or edit details to an assignment?
- How do I create a peer review assignment?
- How do I add or edit points for an assignment?
- How do I delete an assignment?
- How do I assign an assignment to everyone, individual students, differentiated tags, or sections?
- How do I view differentiated assignments with different due dates in a course?
