Grades (Gradebook)
Gradebook
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When you create your assignments and organize them in groups by type, points, and group (category), Canvas automatically populates the gradebook.
The Gradebook shows students' grades on individual assignments as well as within assignments groups (for example, quizzes or essays) and in the course overall. It also uses icons and color codes (you choose your colors) to indicate assignments that have been submitted, late, missing, resubmitted, dropped, or excused.
Canvas Instructor Guide: How Do I Use the Gradebook? Links to an external site.
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The Canvas Gradebook allows instructors to:
- Excuse an assignment, discussion, or a quiz for a student
- Be notified when assignments are submitted.
- Edit Assignment details from the grade book.
- Sort rows and columns by due date, assignment grouping, student names, or highest to lowest scores.
- Notify students when an assignment has been graded.
- View Grade history and revert updated assignment scores to previous scores.
- View student submissions from within the grade book, without opening files, postings, or attachments.
- Utilize offline grading capability by downloading assignment submissions into a zip file and uploading them when connectivity is available.
- Drop the lowest grade in an assignment group.
- Curve grades.
- Assign a default grade such as a "0" for all missing submissions.
- Access the SpeedGrader.
- View grades and averages for individual students, for the whole class, and comparisons across classes.
- Message students who haven’t submitted yet, haven't been graded yet, or who scored more or less than a certain score on an assignment.
Finally, many academic area chairs request that NVC instructors download (export) their Gradebooks at the end of each semester. This is a simple one-click process that creates a spreadsheet and stores it on your computer.
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