How do I create a multiple journals as an Assignment

[DanaAttebery]

Hi Everyone,

My online students need to submit a journal entry for each lecture video they watch.  I have been using a Google link for my students to use, but I would rather have it all in Canvas.  Each journal per lecture video is worth 4 points.  How to do I create one assignment that will allow each student to submit 16 journal entries (for my 6 week course) or 26 journal entries (for my 18 week course)?  What I don't want to create is 16 or 26  individual assignments, but just one assignment that will allow multiple entries that will be graded for each entry.  That way I can track how each student is doing on their journal entries so that I can grade each individual journal and provide feedback.  I hope that make sense.

Thank you very much for your help and ideas.

[SusanNiemeyer]

The bottom line is that you can't create a single ongoing assignment with multiple entries and multiple grades within Canvas.

I would suggest, though, that you consider multiple assignments, e.g. a separate assignment for each weekly module. While you won't be able to see a student's progression over time as easily, it will be easier for the students and for you to see if they are missing assignments. 

[TrishaMeyer1]

You could try creating the assignment as a graded Group Discussion and then create the exact number of groups as there are students in the class. This would create single-student "groups." Each student could then use the Reply feature to continue to add entries to the topic. I don't think you can create multiple Gradebook entries, though. You would have to create "No Submission" Assignments worth points along the way and just keep referring to the original Discussion for the entries. Just keep two windows open, one with the Discussion and one with the Gradebook. Read the entry and enter the score manually in the other window. The grade for the Discussion could be either a holistic grade for the whole unit or the last 4-point grade (essentially the grade for just the final entry).

[TrishaMeyer1]

Or you could just use the comment feature to assign points (that don't actually go in the gradebook) to let the students know how they're doing and then add up the points for a total grade for the Discussion, which would then go into the Gradebook at the end. That would prevent overloading your Gradebook with 4-pointers while still allowing the students to know how they're doing.