Manage Your Gradebook

Introduction

The Gradebook is an efficient and powerful tool for entering grades, tracking student performance, and communicating grades to students. This page will help you start out on the right foot by setting up and organizing your Gradebook to suit the needs of your individual courses. You will finish with grading options and ways to manage student grades.

On This Page:

    1. Customize your Gradebook
    2. Set Late and Missing Submission policies
    3. Set Grade Posting policies
    4. Grade student submissions
    5. Manage student grades

 

Customize your Gradebook

You can customize your Gradebook to your preferences by arranging and sorting columns, filtering by student names and assignments, as well as view assignment types in a variety of ways. Explore the tutorials below to learn more about customization options in the Gradebook.

Arrange, Sort, and Filter

You can customize Gradebook column locations by following the steps in the tutorial below:

The following tutorial shows the variety of ways you can change how student names are displayed in the Gradebook:

Follow the steps in this tutorial to change the way an individual assignment’s scores are displayed:

You can filter columns by type including Assignment Groups, Grading Periods, Modules, and Sections by following the steps in the tutorial below:

You can create and apply specific gradebook filters for one-time or repeat use by following these step-by-step instructions:

Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to use assignment groups and interpret the total column:

View

View grades for inactive or concluded students by following the steps in the tutorial below:

You can display unpublished assignments as columns in the Gradebook by following the steps in the tutorial below: 

Learn more about the Gradebook icons and colors in the first tutorial below. Share the second article with students to help them interpret their Gradebook. 

Follow the steps in the following tutorial to learn more about customizing your grading status colors:

 

Set Late and Missing Submission policies

The Missing Submission policy lets you automatically apply a grade for all missing submissions, while the Late Submission policy allows you to automatically deduct points on all late submissions (submitted after the due date). Explore the following tutorials to learn more about setting up these assignment submission policies.

Customize how missing submissions are graded by setting up a Missing Submission policy for your course:

You can automatically deduct points for late submissions by setting up a Late Submission policy for your course:

NOTE: These policies do not copy from Master courses.

 

Set Grade Posting policies

The Grade Posting policy allows you to determine when grades will be posted either across your entire course or by individual assignment.  Explore the following tutorials to learn more about setting up these grade posting policies for both your entire course and for individual assignments.

Customize when grades will be released to students by setting up a Grade Posting policy for your course:

You can customize when grades will be released to students by setting up a Grade Posting policy for an individual assignment:

NOTE: These policies do not copy from Master courses.

 

Grade student submissions

Enter Grades

Follow the steps in the following tutorial to learn how to enter and edit grades in the Gradebook:

Learn how to enter an assignment grade as a specific grading type including points, percentage and grading scheme in the tutorial below:

Change the status of a Gradebook submission to late, missing, or excused by following the steps in the tutorial below:

Change the overall grade calculated by Canvas:

Learn how to access SpeedGrader from the Gradebook:

Learn how to grade assignments anonymously from the Gradebook. These are designated assignments where graders cannot view students' names:

Hide, Curve, or Default Grades

Learn how hide grades for assignments while grading and then post grades in these tutorials:

Follow the steps in the following tutorial to learn how curve grades:

You can set a default grade for an assignment (such as zero) by following the steps in the tutorial below:

Add Comments and Send Messages

Leave comments for students in the Gradebook by following the steps in the tutorial below:

Send messages to students from the Gradebook by following the steps in the tutorial below:

 

Manage student grades

Use the following tutorials to read about strategies to manage student grades and provide feedback: