Build Your Canvas Gradebook – Overview
The Canvas Gradebook is a responsive, integrated tool. As a Learning Management System, Canvas is designed so that its major functions are interwoven. Nowhere is this truer than the connections between Canvas' evaluation tools and the gradebook. To build a gradebook in Canvas, you must first build graded assignments, discussions, and quizzes.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize that Canvas tools are integrated and responsive.
- Identify how Canvas responds to the assignment settings you choose.
- Recognize that the three major assignment tools are available for ungraded activities as well as graded assignments.
- Organize and weight your graded assignments using assignment groups.
Quick View
If you are new to Canvas or the Canvas Gradebook, you will likely want to move through this module from the beginning. If you are already familiar with some of the concepts of Gradebook, you may want to choose the areas on which you would like to focus:
- Tools Integration - video demonstration of how each of the Canvas tools work together.
- Build Your Gradebook - simulation activity that takes you through the process of setting up your gradebook to match your preferences.
- Activities vs. Graded Assignment - video demonstration of how to use Canvas tools to allow students to practice in a low-stakes activity.
- Assignments Index Page - addresses how the Assignments index page captures all graded items to organize for the Gradebook.
- Grouping and Weighting - addresses how you can group or group and weight your grades through the Assignments index page to organize your Gradebook.
- Quiz: Building Assignments and Activities - test your knowledge of building your Gradebook in Canvas. 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.