Canvas Gradebook State College of Florida Less time

Canvas Gradebook State College of Florida Less time. Less effort. More awesome.

What is the Gradebook? The Canvas Gradebook helps instructors easily input and distribute grades for students. Grades for each assignment can be calculated as : • • • Points Percentages Complete or Incomplete Pass or Fail GPA Scale Letter grades Assignments can be organized into groups for weighting as well. NOTE: Assignments control the Gradebook. An assignment is a column in your Gradebook.

What I View in the Gradebook? 1. 2. 3. 4. Sort by students or sections Student Data (Name, Email, Notes) Assignment Data Specify settings for entire Gradebook

Gradebook Icons – Submission Icons 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Discussion Icon: Graded discussion submitted, not graded Document Icon: File upload submitted, not graded Filmstrip Icon: Media recording submitted, not graded Text Icon: Test entry submitted, not graded Link Icon: Website URL submitted, not graded Muted Icon: Assignment is muted Q Icon: Auto-submitted Quiz score had been deleted from gradebook; a new grade needs to be assigned

Gradebook Icons – Color Icons 1. Yellow Shading: Resubmitted Assignment 2. Pink Shading: Late submission 3. Gray Lined Shading: Dropped grade

Gradebook Icons – Grading Type Icons 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Dash: No submission Number: Points Grade Check Icon: Complete Grade X Icon: Incomplete Grade Letter: Letter Grade (set up by grading schemes) Percentage: Percentage Grade GPA: GPA scale

Create Assignment Groups Using Assignment Groups allows you to organize and weight the assignments in your course. 1. 2. 3. 4. Click Assignments Tab Click Add Group button Type the Assignment Group Name If you want to weight the grade, enter the % of total grade into field [2]. NOTE: You must create assignment groups before you can assign percentages to each group.

Add Assignment Weights 1. Click Assignments in the Course Navigation. 2. Click the Settings icon at the top of the Assignments Index Page to open global assignment settings. 3. Click the Weight final grade based on assignment groups checkbox. 4. Enter the percentage weights for each of the different Assignment Groups you created. Weights will show up in the Gradebook for both students and instructors. 5. Click Save

Mute Assignments By default Canvas allows students to see a grade as soon as the instructor has graded the assignment. If you want to release all grades at once you can click Mute to grade then Unmute to send grades. During Mute students cannot see: • • • Their grade for the assignment Grade change notifications Submission comments Curving assignments Score change notifications

Message Students Who To ensure students are on task and to serve as a quick filter for instructors, you can send messages to select students from your Gradebook. Message Students Who … • • Haven’t submitted yet Haven’t been graded Scored less than Scored more than

Enter/Edit Scores To enter grades for students in the Gradebook you can do the following: 1. Click the Grades link. 2. Click the assignment cell located in the row of the student whose score you want to enter. 3. Type or use the arrows to enter the new score in the cell and press Enter (PC) or Return (MAC)

Download Gradebook Scores Notes about CSV files from Canvas: • Some columns that appear are read-only • For assignment groups, changed will be included in the assignment group calculation in the Gradebook. • • The Total Score displayed in the Gradebook reflects each students score at the time of export. • If students has submitted an assignment multiple times, the CSV file only accounts for the most recent submission. • The notes column is not included in the CSV export • Concluded enrollments are not included in the CSV export.

Student View – What If? What-If Grades allow students to calculate their total grade by entering hypothetical grades for all ungraded assignments.

Extra Credit in Canvas There a few different ways you can give students extra credit in Canvas, with the Gradebook. • • Create a New Assignment with No Submission Add Extra Points to an Existing Assignment Add Fudge Points to a Quiz Create Extra Credit with a Rubric Note: If you weight assignment groups, pay attention to how weighted groups will affect the Gradebook If you have drop rules for assignments, adding extra points may affect students’ scores.

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