uploading pdf secondary students can open, type on, and submit

agleue

Hello and thanks for helping.  I will be using CANVAS for the first time next year at a high school and am learning about setting up my class; I don't know much at this point about CANVAS.  I have many pdfs I have downloaded over the years, printed, given to students and then they return to me for grading.  I would like, though, to create a classroom without all the handouts and need to print.  What is the best and easiest method for a teacher to upload the pdf making it editable for the student.  The idea would be for the students to type in answers and then submit their edited pdf.  I have seen a few videos about this but wanted to ask the community.  By the way, we are. using chromebooks if it makes any difference.  Thank you!  Alan

Chris_Hofer

Hi @agleue ...

There are a few different ways this could be accomplished:

• How do I create an online assignment? - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com) -- See the section on "Select Online Entry Options" and then the "Student Annotations" portion of that topic.  There's additional information under the "Select Annotation File" heading, too.
• These next two options assume that your school has set up these two integrations inside of your school's Canvas environment (typically set up by the Canvas admin at your school)...but it's similar to the first bulleted item...but it uses Microsoft Office 365 or Google accounts.
  • How do I create a cloud assignment with a Microsof... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)
  • How do I create a cloud assignment with a Google D... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

In all these cases, students aren't editing your original file.  Rather, they are editing a copy of your file and then submitting it back to you for evaluation/grading.

Hopefully this will help to meet your needs.  Let Community members know if you have any questions about this...thanks!