Canvas Gradebook Tips and Tricks

Let's explore some fundamental tips and tricks to help you get the most out of the Canvas gradebook and help you to be efficient and productive.

0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Drag and drop columns
0:48 - Move final column to front
1:21 - Sort final column
1:30 - Display grade as points
1:47 - Letter (final) grades
3:46 - Student names/info
4:21 - change column width
4:57 - Assignment groups
5:58 - Assignment group weight
7:04 - Message students who...
8:06 - View: arrange by...
8:41 - Filters
9:32 - Search
9:53 - Delete "test student"
10:44 - Hide unpublished assignments
11:13 - Notes
12:00 - Late policies
13:33 - Navigating gradebook cells
14:23 - Grade posting policy
15:17 - Grade posting policy (individual assignment)
15:53 - Keyboard shortcuts
16:31 - Special bonus tip

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[drwiese]

Thanks for making this fabulous content available to all of the instructors who are using Canvas! The community is better because you do this work :)

[TopicsInRadiography]

Awesome job! This was extremely helpful and I appreciate the detail you went into on this.

[catherineabbott]

Thanks. You showed me a lot that I can use today... and going forward.

[byzarwilliams]

Thank you so very much! I can't wait to learn more!

[junec]

Thanks for this great video. I have learned a lot

[furb]

Hi this was great. I am fairly new to Canvas and need some help. I imported a cartridge from the publisher of our book. It came with an assignment per chapter and everything is appearing in the grade book as a separate assignment. I have the publisher grade these assignments and I enter them into an average into the grade book in Canvas. Is there a way to condense the grades from those assignments into 1 column that is already averaged out? I need to students to be able to see their individual grade for each assignment but in the instructor grade book I’d like to be able to see just a singular column. I hope that makes sense.
Thx in advance

[circlesthesun]

I've rolled classes over from last semester into the new semester. I see that students are taking quizzes from previous semesters and the grade is appearing on my current Canvas. By chance do you have a suggestion for this issue? I've searched online for a solution. I've had no luck.

[kathyvanwagoner]

Why do I not have "view" "actions" "assignment groups" etc across the top of my gradebook?

[tcikanek]

I use groups in my Management class. I was today years old when I realized you can display the group names within the grade center.

[naturevideos]

Can I add 10 marks across the board on canvas?

[RebeccaMcCullough-ps]

My Gradebook does not have a "View" option listed at the top. I cannot arrange assignments or remove the unpublished assignments without it. HELP!?!?!

[Wheelpan]

I have lots of assignments in grade book columns that are not part of the current class. I believe you said I can go into “assignments “ and delete them so they will not show up in the grade book. Is there a way to just “hide” the assignments instead of deleting them? Thank you.

[scottiebruch]

I'm hoping that I can make this question make sense, so here it goes. If I create an assignment that will not get a grade (I choose Display Grade as Complete/Incomplete), and then I also have it set for the student to mark the assignment as done when they complete it because there is nothing to submit, what happens when the student marks it as done? I would like it to show up in my gradebook as a green checkmark that notes that the student completed the assignment. If it doesn't show up there, does it show up somewhere else? How do I know my students have completed those assignments that are simply marked as done and have a complete/incomplete grade?

[Edd-zhql]

Thank you for this tutorial. How do I get to show the number of points in the grades? For instance, 5 points earned out of 10. How do I show "...out of 10?" Thanks so much.

[kiwimama]

When you sync, is it passing over the missing tags from canvas to PS?

[SoCalRhetor]

You might consider a grade center hacks video. I used to have a script that I deployed through tampermonkey that put shortcuts on my screen (buttons), allowing me to jump from the grade center of one class to another. Lot's of other cool things that were out there too that I haven't been able to find again. Still, I have quite a few that improve the grading experience. Thank God for JavaScript

[reetvirk]

If I leave lowest grade possible to 0, it shows an error message saying "it must be a numeric value"

[williamjkoch]

If you drag grade items and reorder them in the grade book, then you break the ability to change the order from the Assignmetns page. I found it better to change the order using the Assignments page. (I discovered this the hard way.)

[raniabasyouni]

Hi! Can I assign weights to modules instead of groups? I have a course with 22 chapters/modules, and each requires a different workload (percentage) from the students. What's the cleanest way to do this?

[TruthinLove]

Very frustrating that Canvas does not allow assignments within a group to have different percentages. I know the workaround is to control weight by assigning different points to items within a group, but that is shoddy and annoying—especially for teachers who are not point oriented.