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Quick Tip: Set Default Grade
We’ve worked with hundreds of instructors over the years, and a common theme we hear over and over is that grading takes way too long. While we don’t have a tool that can grade your students’ papers for you, this Quick Tip can make inputting grades in the Canvas Gradebook more efficient. If you’ve ever wanted to enter (or remove) grades in bulk, this one’s for you!
Quick Tip: Gradebook Filters
Canvas Gradebook Filters allow instructors to manage, organize, and analyze student performance data by drilling down to show only the information you need at any given time. Let’s take a look at some of the filtering options available in the Canvas Gradebook.
Quick Tip: Gradebook Search Tools
This week’s quick tip is a simple tool, yet it’s something that’s easily overlooked in the Canvas Gradebook. If you ever get tired of constantly scrolling around looking for a specific student or column, check out the Search tool.
Quick Tip: Grade Posting Policy
This week, we will discuss the Canvas Grade Posting Policy and explore the options for controlling when and how grades are released to students.
The Grade Posting Policy allows instructors to control when assignment grades are made visible to students. Posted grades are visible to students, whereas hidden grades are only visible to instructors and cannot be viewed by students.
Quick Tip: Viewing Options in the Gradebook – Status and Cell Colors
There are times when your Gradebook might be a rainbow of colors and a variety of icons. These indicators are meant to assist instructors in immediately identifying the status of assignments across their course.
Quick Tip: Viewing Options in the Gradebook – Hide Unpublished Assignments
This week we will review how to hide unpublished assignment columns to help organize or simplify your Gradebook.
By default, your Gradebook will show both published and unpublished assignments, discussions, and quizzes. While students cannot see these unpublished assignments, they clutter the Gradebook with columns that instructors may never use.
Quick Tip: Viewing Options in the Gradebook – Sort
The default view in the Gradebook is a table with students listed in rows, alphabetically, and columns ordered as they are arranged in the Assignment Index. Many instructors leave this default view in their courses; however, you might explore adjusting this view based on your personal preferences.
Here are some tips on how to sort and arrange your Gradebook.
Quick Tip: View Individual Students’ Grades
In this series focused on Gradebook tips, tricks, and tools, we’ve spent a lot of time outside the Gradebook looking at related settings within the Assignments and Settings pages.
Now that we’ve covered the initial setup of your Canvas grades, let’s shift into looking at some of the tips and tools that are helpful in performing the actual work of grading.
Quick Tip: Configure Your Course Grading Scheme
Over the last several weeks, we’ve covered a lot of Gradebook setup tasks in various areas of your Canvas courses. Our last Gradebook setup tip is a reminder to make sure to check and update the grading scheme in each of your Canvas courses.
Quick Tip: Weighted Grades and Dropped Grades
Like last week’s topic, this week’s grade-related features are also not located in the Gradebook. Weighted Grades and Dropping Grades are options that are available in Assignment Groups.