Sharing an Assessment

[MATIASARELLANO]

My followers cannot see the newly created assessment. How do I allow them to view and upload the assessment for their trackers?

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello @MATIASARELLANO ...

I am not sure what you mean by "sharing an assessment".  Can you provide some more details?  For example:

• Are your "followers" students in your course, and you want to make an assignment visible to your "followers" so that they can submit work to you for grading?
• Are you wanting to share an assignment with colleagues at your school so that they can see/use it in their own course(s)?

If you could fill in some of the missing pieces here, that would be great...thanks!

[NICOLEIRBY]

I am wanting to share an assignment with colleagues at my school so that they can see/use it in their own course(s)?

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello there, @NICOLEIRBY ...

There are a few options you could try so that you can share content from your course with your colleagues:

1. Do you have access to Canvas Commons?  You would see a "Commons" icon on the far left-hand side of your global navigation menu.  You could share a resource to Commons and share it so that it available to only your school and not to other Canvas instructors outside of your school.  Then, once your content has been shared, any of your colleagues could import your resource from Commons to their own course.  One of the cool things about this is...if your colleagues are not planning on changing anything in the content you shared to Commons, if you ever made an update to that content, you can push it back out to Commons, and they would get an update in Commons where they can have it automatically updated in their courses in which they imported it.  Kind of an "update once, distribute to many" way of thinking.
   • How do I use Commons?
   • How do I share a resource to Commons?
   • How do I share a course to Commons?
   • How do I share a document, image, video, or audio file to Commons?
   • How do I import and view a Commons resource in Canvas?
   • How do I update a resource I previously shared to Commons?
   • How do I view updates to resources I previously imported from Commons?
2. You could use the Course Import Tool to import specific content from one course to another.  This requires that either you would need to have access to your colleagues' courses so that you could do the import for him/her within his/her course, or that your colleagues' have access to your course so that he/she can import content from your course into his/her own course.  In either case, the individual doing the import would need to be in your colleague's course and not your own course...as this is where the content will be imported into.  If you cannot enroll other instructors in your course or your colleague's course, then you'd have to as your school's Canvas administrator to do this for you.
   • How do I select specific content as part of a course import?
3. If you are looking to just share one or two items quickly with another instructor, this option might be the easiest for you...sending course content to another instructor.  Unlike the first option I shared, if you update a content page in your own course, it will not update the course in your colleagues' courses.  The instructions are pretty similar for all of these, but here are the directions:
   • How do I send an assignment to another instructor?
   • How do I send a discussion to another instructor?
   • How do I send a module to another instructor?
   • How do I send a page to another instructor?
   • How do I send a quiz to another instructor?
   • How do I send a quiz to another instructor in New Quizzes?

If none of these options will work, then you'll need to work with your school's Canvas administrator to see what options are available.  They may have policies in place for sharing/copying content and allowing (or not allowing) instructors to copy content to other courses.  You'll need to find this out at your school...as there will likely be differences depending on what school you are at.

I hope this will be of some help to you!   Sing out if you have any questions...thanks!