The “Assign To” feature allows you to set different availability dates and due dates for different students, groups, and sections. This easily allows you to set extensions and accommodations.
Note: If you want to make an assignment available to students before the start of the semester, leave the “Available from” field blank.

Canvas Guide: What is the different between assignment due dates and availability dates?

Assignments include Quizzes, graded Discussions, and online submissions (i.e., files, images, text, URLs, etc.). The Assignments page shows students all the Assignments that will be expected of them and how many points each is worth. Watch video

Canvas Guide: What are Assignments?
Illinois State University Help Article: Setting Up Multiple Assignment Submissions in Canvas

You can create assignments on the Assignments page. You can create an assignment shell, which is a placeholder for an assignment within an assignment group, or you can create an entire assignment with all the assignment details.

Canvas Guide: How do I create an assignment?

Canvas supports five assignment types: Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes, External Tools, and Not Graded. As an instructor, you can select an assignment type when creating an assignment shell.

Canvas Guide: What assignment types can I create in a course?
Illinois State University Help Article: Adding Padlet to an Assignment in Canvas

When creating or editing a group assignment, you can assign an assignment to specific groups and set different due dates and availability dates for each group.

Canvas Guide: How do I assign an assignment to a course group?

You can weight final grades based on assignment groups. Selecting this option assigns a weight to each assignment group, not the assignments themselves. Within each assignment group, a percentage is calculated by dividing the total points a student has earned by the total points possible for all assignments in that group.

Note: Any assignment group weighted at 0% will not be factored into student final grades. If you copied your content from a migrated course site, your assignment groups will automatically be set to 0% and need to be adjusted. 

Canvas Guide: How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?

Peer review allows communication between students and can help students master the concepts of a course and learn from each other. Peer reviews can be assigned to show student names or displayed anonymously.

Canvas Guide: How do I use peer review assignment in a course?

Extra credit is currently not a default option in Canvas. However, you can give students extra credit using a variety of options, including making an assignment worth zero points, creating an additional assignment group, or using fudge points in a quiz.

Canvas Guide: How do I give extra credit in a course?
Illinois State University Help Article: How to add Extra Points in Canvas