About Gradebook
Gradebook provides many useful features:
- Many options for arranging and filtering the gradebook; filters persist until you reset them
- Options for sorting students and viewing student names and data
- Easy grade entry with clear highlighting of assignment column and student row
- Late policies to automate grades or deductions for late and missing assignments (course wide)
- The ability to set course-wide “post policies” for hiding/showing grades, release grades to only specific sections, and more
- The ability to manually adjust student’s final course grade
- Grade detail tray brings focus to individual student submission
For an overview of Gradebook features, take five minutes to watch this action-packed video. It’s full of great information that will make using Gradebook a breeze.
How-to resources from Instructure
- Video overview of Gradebook
- Gradebook Instructor guide
- How do I use the Gradebook?
- How do I apply a late submission policy?
- How do I use grade posting policies?
About grade posting policies
In Gradebook, the grade posting policies feature replaces the muting/unmuting of assignment scores feature from a previous version of Gradebook. You can select a default grade posting policy for all course assignments, either manual or automatic (the default). We recommend setting the posting policy to “manually post grades;” this will hide any entered scores from students until you post grades for the assignment. Hiding grades also hides submission comments and grade change notifications.
Please note: You must set the grade posting policy to manual before students submit any work. If not set to manual prior to student submissions, the student grades will be visible. Course grade posting policies are not applied retroactively to previous submissions.
View step-by-step instructions and more details about grade posting policies:
- Canvas Grade Posting Policy (UW-IT documentation)
Documentation from Instructure (Canvas vendor):