Hi there my name is Selina, and I am a Chapman Learning Commons assistant at UBC
I will be showing you folks how to take a screenshot of an assignment submission to
Canvas on both Mac and PC computers. If you're unsure about submitting a digital assignment,
make sure you check out our previous video: "How to submit an assignment to canvas".
This video will demonstrate how to take a screenshot of an assignment submission on both Mac and PC computers,
and then we will be demonstrating how to send this screenshot as a proof to the instructor through canvas messaging.
Here are a few reasons why you might want to take a screenshot of your assignment
submission to canvas. Once you have successfully submitted an assignment to canvas you might want
to take a screenshot as a proof. In some cases the internet might be unstable and it may take a long
time to upload my file. You can take a screenshot that shows you submitting the assignment on time
so that you will not be considered as late
If you are working on a Macbook, you want to use the following shortcut.
To take a screenshot of the entire screen simply press "Command", "Shift", and "3".
To take a screenshot of a portion of the screen, press "Command", "Shift", and "4".
You will notice that the cursor has changed so that you can use it to select only a part
of the screen to take a screenshot.
First, I will be doing the demonstration on a Macbook.
As you can see, I have opened up one of my assignments on canvas. This is after I logged in.
And the status of this assignment is "submitted". I want to take a screenshot as a proof
If I would like to take a screenshot of the entire screen on the Macbook, I will be pressing "Command", "Shift", and "3".
If I only want to take a screenshot of a portion of the screen,
I will be pressing "Command", "Shift", and "4". As you can see the cursor
has now changed and I can just easily select a part of the screen like this
If you're working on a PC, you'll want to use the following shortcuts
To take a screenshot of the entire screen simply press "windows logo key" and the "print screen" key.
To take a screenshot of a portion of the screen press "windows logo" key, "shift" and "as". You will notice the cursor
has changed so that you can use it to select only a part of the screen to take a screenshot
Once we have successfully taken the screenshots, we want to locate the screenshots and rename them
After that we will be contacting our instructor regarding the screenshots
If you're working on a Macbook, the screenshots you've taken are usually saved directly onto the desktop itself.
Now I want to name them to something that makes sense to my instructor. In my case
I will be naming it as assignment-"so and so"-submission-screenshot-proof-Alina, which is my name
On a windows computer, you can access that screenshot by going to this PC -> pictures
and then screenshots. You also want to rename it to something that makes sense to your instructor.
After making sure I know where my screenshots are saved, I can now message my instructor
You can contact your instructor either via email or canvas. In this demonstration I will be showing you
how to message your instructors for canvas. Right now we are back on this canvas website and
once again this is after I've logged in. If you could head to this inbox icon,
click it. Right here there is a compose button; you want to click that.
Select course. Go to favorite courses. In this case, I will be emailing my instructor for this
particular course. Click it and under the two you want to select the instructor. There we go
In the interest of time, I will just be pasting what I have written
"Dear professor so and so this is Alina in your course dot dot dot and I was having trouble .."
"submitting this assignment due to poor internet connection" or "I have successfully submitted this
assignment and am emailing you the proof for your awareness as per your request." You wanna
state the reason why you're contacting the instructor with this proof either because of
a technical issue or the instructor has requested a proof from you. You want to include your
student number. For the subject line, you want to put something like "course so and so assignment so
and so" submission proof and your name. Now you want to attach the screenshot that you've taken. Go here;
it says add an attachment just click on it and then since my screenshot was found on my desktop.
There we go the first one open and it's attached there. Now you can hit send.
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