How to use Revision Assistant within Canvas

Adding a Revision Assistant assignment

Open up the Savvas Realize Discover tool within your Canvas course and select the Revision Assistant program.

Note: If you did not subscribe to the Revision Assistant program, click on your name and go to My Programs where you can add the Revision Assistant program to the list of programs you are subscribed to.

Click on + Import on the Launch Revision Assistant content item in the table of contents.

Click on Import to add the item to your Canvas course.

You will now see the Launch Revision Assistant material in your Canvas course.

If you select the Launch Revision Assistant material you will get the following error below. This is due to the fact that as a teacher you are not able to see the assignment preview within Canvas.

Triggering the class assignment creation in Savvas Realize

Only students trigger Savvas Realize to create a class assignment. You will use the Student View to act as a student and trigger the class assignment creation.

When you see the following, that means that Savvas Realize has created the assignment. 

You can now click on Leave Student View to exit the student view and return back to Canvas as the teacher.

Launching the Revision Assistant assignment from Savvas Realize

To launch Revision Assistant assignment simply click on the Open in New Window button.

Setting up the assignment in Revision Assistant

Now you are in Revision Assistant and it will ask you to to choose a prompt for the class assignment.

Select the prompt you want to use.

Review the prompt and then click Select Prompt.

Click on Create Assignment to complete the prompt selection.

You can click View Assignment to see the assignment.

You will see the prompt that is now been assigned.

Students accessing the Revision Assistant assignment from Canvas

To confirm you students can now see the assignment in Revision Assistant you can use Student View again. Click on the Open in a new window to launch into Revision Assistant.

The student will be launched into Revision Assistant where they will see the assignment with the prompt you selected. 

Reviewing student work in Revision Assistant

To review student work in Revision Assistant you must launch Revision Assistant by clicking on Open in New Window when viewing the assignment preview within Canvas.

Once in the Revision Assistant application, select Student Progress to see how you students a progressing on the assignment.