Instructional Design Canvas Gradebook Management – Overview

Managing your Gradebook allows you to be more responsive to students’ progress and need for intervention. Gradebooks can be overwhelming, right? They usually include a lot of options and critical grade-related information, so you definitely don't want to mess anything up! Now that your gradebook is set up, and you have a strategy for grading, it's time to learn how to manage your gradebook. Because Grades is the record center for student performance in the course, this part of Canvas also includes several features that you can use to analyze student data and communicate with students about how they are doing.

Learning Objectives

Navigate the grades page.
Organize your gradebook using search, arrange, and filter.
Set gradebook policies for missing assignments, late assignments, and posting grades.
Differentiate between implementing a grade posting policy and hiding grades.
View student information and learning analytics.
Use "Message Students Who" to communicate with students.

Quick Links

If you are new to Canvas or the Canvas Gradebook, you will likely want to move through this module from the beginning, but if you are already familiar with some of the concepts of managing your Gradebook, you may want to choose the areas on which you would like to focus:

Management Features - this page orients you to the grades page and some of its more common features.
Missing and Late Policies - to make sure your gradebook accurately reflects your students' performance.
Grade Posting Policy - this page reviews what options you have for how students see grades for their submissions.
Student Data Features - these features help you see what your students see to diagnose and target interventions
Intervention Features - this page helps you automate communication to your students to improve communication and opportunity for intervention.
Quiz - test your knowledge of Gradebook management. Don't worry; you can take the quiz as many times as you like, and the feedback will direct you to resources you might need to review.
Additional Resource - Understand and set up a grading schema in a Canvas course