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Canvas: Divide Gradebook for Multiple Graders

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If you have multiple graders in your course and you need to assign each grader a set of students; then, you can use groups to do this.

Randomly assign the students to groups and assign each grader a group(s).

If you have other group work in the course then you should know that you cannot hide groups from students. If you have the groups for the gradebook obviously named then I would have to express a concern for students sucking up to their grader for better grades. To work around this, divide the students into their working groups and assign graders based on those groups. This way students won’t know the gradebook is being divided or who is grading their work.

Canvas: Merging Quiz Grades

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An instructor emailed me with a question about merging quiz grades in Canvas. Unfortunately, Canvas cannot combine grades in the gradebook, but there is something you can do to work around this.

Here are the problems that need to be solved:

  • 3 Midterms in one semester and the lowest midterm grade gets dropped
  • Midterm #3 was split into 2 parts and now the instructor wants them combined.

I’ll admit, I don’t know Canvas as well Sakai or Moodle, so I asked a colleague. Turns out, it’s basically the same solution I would use for any other LMS.

  1. Manually add the scores for part 2 with part 1, so the total score is combined in one column.
  2. Move part 2 to a different assignment group weighted 0% or adjust the settings for it to “Do not count towards final grade.”
  3. Once you have your 3 midterms ready, move them into one assignment group and apply the rule, “Drop lowest score” to that group.