When a course is imported with the late grading policy enabled, Canvas will apply the grading policy toward any assignment that has a due date in the past. This may cause students to view a grade of zero before a class has started. To avoid this, remove any late grade or submission policies from the course that will be copied before it is imported to the new Canvas course.
Note: If the class has already begun some students may have graded assignments. Those students and graded assignments will need to be identified before beginning. Sort each assignment column by Grade: high to low and make a note of any grades. Students who have a grade listed will need to have their grade re-entered after the grade of zero is removed for the other students.
To update scores for students who have received grades erroneously, the Default Grade option can be used.
- Go to your Canvas course.
- Select Grades in the course navigation menu.
- In the gradebook column header, select the Options icon (three vertical dots) next to the assignment title (See Figure 1).
- Select Set Default Grade (See Figure 1).
Figure 1: Assignment Options menu to select Set Default Grade. - In the Default grade window, leave the Grade Value field empty (See Figure 2).
- Next to Overwrite already-entered grades, select the checkbox (See Figure 2).
Figure 2: Default grade options selection box. - Select Set Default Grades (See Figure 2).
- Once complete, a verification message will display detailing how many student grades were updated.
- Select OK (See Figure 3).
Figure 3: Verification of default grades message.
Modified on: Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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