Canvas Gradebook

Using the Canvas Gradebook
The CTLA Help Guide: Canvas Gradebook and Speedgrader Basics provides a good overview of Canvas Gradebook's functionality.  See the Canvas Instructor Gradebook Guide for a full list of functionality and as always, please make an appointment with the CTLA for assistance.
 

Entering Grades in Canvas

Watch the video on the left for a quick tutorial demonstrating how to add grades to the Canvas gradebook using assignment shells and the grade detail tray.

Detailed Canvas Gradebook Overview

00:06: How do I use the Gradebook? 00:09: In Course Navigation, click the Grades link. 00:12: The Gradebook includes global sorting options and settings you can use to organize your grade book, student data, and assignment data. The Gradebook supports keyboard shortcuts. To view the Keyboard Shortcuts menu, click the Keyboard icon or press the Shift+Question Mark keys simultaneously. 00:30: The Traditional Gradebook allows you to see all students, assignments, and grades. In the Gradebook menu, you also switch between several options as available. 00:40: Learning Mastery Gradebook displays the Learning Mastery Gradebook, which assesses outcome standards being used in Canvas courses. This gradebook is a course-level feature option. 00:51: Individual Gradebook allows you to assess one student and one assignment at a time and is fully accessible for screen readers. Individual View currently does not support settings and options from the Gradebook. 01:03: Gradebook History displays the Gradebook History page, which logs recent grade changes in the course according to student, grader, assignment, and date. 01:13: The Search Students field allows multiple student names to be filtered at the same time. 01:18: The Search Assignments field allows multiple assignment names to be filtered at the same time. 01:23: The Gradebook Settings allow you to apply Late Policies, a Grade Posting Policy, a Final Grade Override, and View Options in your course gradebook. 01:32: The Late Policies tab allows you to apply late policies in your course. 01:36: The Grade Posting Policy tab allows you to change grade posting policies for your course. 01:41: The View Options tab allows you to filter and sort the Gradebook according to several viewing options: arrange by, show, view ungraded as zero, and status color. 01:52: In the Apply Filters menu, you can create and manage filter presets or filter columns by type. 01:58: To bulk manage student grades in the Gradebook, you can also import grades and export grades. 02:04: The Student Name column displays each student's name and may also include a student's secondary ID, if enabled. 02:11: Each column in the Gradebook represents a published assignment in the Assignments page. Each column displays the assignment title, total points, and each student's grade. 02:22: To enter grades, type the grade as supported by assignment type directly in the Gradebook cell. You can also enter grades and change the submission status by clicking the Grade Detail Tray icon. 02:33: The Grade Detail Tray allows you to enter or edit grades, change the status of a submission, and leave comments for the student. 02:41: The assignment groups shown in the Gradebook match the assignment groups created in the Assignments page. If your assignment groups are weighted, the weighted grade displays below the group title. Grade totals from assignment groups are calculated in the Total column of the Gradebook. 02:56: This guide covered how to use the Gradebook.

Watch the video on the left for a detailed overview Canvas gradebook's various features.