Google Drive Submission Types | Comparison

Google Submission Types

The connection between Canvas and Google provides two key methods for students to submit work:

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    • Submit original work created by the student in their individual Google Drives, or
    • Submit responses on an instructor-created document.

Considerations: Submitting Original Work from a Student's Google Drive

As an instructor, you may ask your students to create their own file and submit it to you for review and feedback through the Google Assignments LTI 1.3.

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    • Students can create their own Google Files (Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc) and submit the final copy to the instructor. Instructors can then view the submission in the Canvas SpeedGrader.
    • Students can submit any file type from their Google drive, but instructors will ONLY be able to see and provide feedback on native Google Content (Docs, Sheets, Slides) in the SpeedGrader. All other file types will submit, but the instructor would need to download the file OR have students upload that file from their hard drive instead of from their Google Drive.

Considerations: Submitting a Google Assignment

As an instructor, you can create a document that you would like your students to fill out or complete. When you attach that file to a Canvas Assignment using the Google Assignments LTI 1.3, each student receives a copy of the file in their Google Drive, completes the file, and submits the file back to you for review and feedback.

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    • Each student receives their own copy of an instructor created Google formatted document (Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc) in their Google Drive.
    • Files are organized automatically in student Google Drives.
    • Instructors can provide inline feedback.
    • Submissions are not returned to the Canvas SpeedGrader, rather assessed in the Google Feedback suite.
    • Scores may experience a lag between instructor grading and appearing in the Canvas Gradebook.
    • Instructors cannot use Canvas Rubrics (at this time), limiting the instructor's ability to assess using Outcomes.