Navigating the Gradebook and Accessing the Speedgrader

Allison McComb Updated by Allison McComb

To access the Gradebook for an individual course section, click the “Grades” tab from within the course

When a student submits to an assignment, you will see an icon appear under the assignment column (example below). 

Color shading in the GB:

Blue background denotes the assignment was turned in late. You can ignore this feature generally speaking, as our courses do not have a "lateness" factor; as long as students submit their work before the course ends (or within an extension deadline), it will be eligible for grading. Please note: there are rare exceptions to our "soft" due dates. You will be made aware if a course you are facilitating has "hard" due-dates.

Red background denotes that an Assignment is missing. You can use this feature to help guide on which students may benefit from gentle nudge reminders. Please visit this article for steps on how to send gentle nudges from the gradebook.

*Please note that the red background will not display for any assignments based in an external tool, such as Codio.

Green background denotes when a student resubmits an assignment previously marked incomplete

To Grade an Assignment:

Once you are within the Gradebook, you will need to navigate to the Speegrader to enter a grade formally. To do so, click into the assignment box and then click the arrow icon:

Then click “Speedgrader”

Select an assessment and leave comments in the assignment comment field.

Your options are Complete, Incomplete, or Excused. 

*Please note, we do not use the Excused option, so the assignment needs to be marked Complete or Incomplete. 

Once you grade a student's work, the icon which appears in the gradebook should be a check mark. If the assignment is marked as incomplete, you will see an “X”.

Seeing a Students True Grade

Please note the “Total” column in the Gradebook view is only indicative of the assignment currently graded. Therefore, it does not take any unsubmitted work into account.

To ensure any 0's for unsubmitted work are being factored into the grade you see via the Course gradebook, first go to your Gradebook settings via the gar icon on the far right:

Toggle over to the "View Options" tab:

From here, check "View ungraded as 0":

You will be met with the following pop-up, which you will want to click "OK" To:

Finally, you will click Apply Changes.

Please note, Facilitators should leave unsubmited assignments as ungraded (do not grade with a 0). Information on this can be found in this article. Emabling "View ungraded as 0" does not automatically provide a 0/incomplete grade.

As mentioned in the Canvas pop-up, this setting only affects your view of student grades and displays grades as if all ungraded assignments were given a score of zero. This setting is a visual change only and does not affect grades for students or other users of this Gradebook. When this setting is enabled, Canvas will not populate zeros in the Gradebook for student submissions within individual assignments.

If you want to see if an individual student has fully completed the course with 100%, you can click their name from within the gradebook, and then the red “Grades” button which appears on the right hand side:

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