Submitting Assignments Online

Many of your instructors will require you to submit work through Canvas. Most often the assignment submission box will have a due date and time. Once that due date and time passes, you usually can still submit an assignment, but Canvas will mark it as late. What most students don't understand is that your instructors can see the time that the assignment was submitted. And, remember, some instructors don't accept late work. If an assignment is due at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, as an example, and you submit the assignment at 12:05 a.m. on Monday, you'll think. "Hey, it's only 6 minutes late." What you need to remember is that the key word in that sentence is "late." 

If you're managing your time appropriately, you most likely would have submitted that assignment long before 11:59 p.m. on Sunday and at that time are happily sleeping soundly. Remember to never put yourself in a position to have to submit work late. Think about it as a job, if you arrived late to work three times in one week, how long would it be before your boss fired you? It's the same with turning in work in college. Due dates aren't negotiable just like your starting time on a job isn't. It's a good habit to be punctual and let that begin with submitting your work.

I've included a video here to demonstrate how to submit assignments in Canvas. You will most likely already have seen this in the Student Passport to Online Learning, but it's always good to have information in more than one place. 

Please watch!

You can practice submitting assignments in this practice assignment.