1. Canvas Gradebook State College of Florida
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2. 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.

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

4. Gradebook Icons – Submission Icons
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

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

6. Gradebook Icons – Grading Type Icons
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

7. Create Assignment Groups
Using Assignment Groups allows you to organize and weight the assignments in your course.
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.

8. Add Assignment Weights
Click Assignments in the Course Navigation.
Click the Settings icon at the top of the Assignments Index Page to open global assignment settings.
Click the Weight final grade based on assignment groups checkbox.
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.
Click Save

9. 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

10. 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

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

12. 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.

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

14. 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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