How-to: Messaging Students through Gradebook

1. Click on the “Message Students Who” option from the dropdown menu of the Assignment.
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A pop-up menu will appear allowing you to message students based on the following criteria:

1. 1. Students who have not submitted the assignment
   2. Students who have not yet been graded
   3. Students who scored more/less than a certain threshold.
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Note that not all of these options may be available to you, depending on how you have already graded (e.g. you will not see the option to message students who have not submitted an assignment if every student has submitted).

How-to: Gradebook Posting Policy (new)

1. Note: This replaces the “mute” function in the old Canvas gradebook.
   1. From the Assignment Title cell in Canvas, click on the drop-down menu and select “Grade Posting Policy” from the list of options.
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   2. To hide the grades from students until you are finished, select the post grades “Manually” option.
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   3. Students will be unable to view their grades, score changes, and both in-line and overall submission comments until the assignment grades are posted. The student's grades page displays a visibility icon so students know the assignment grade is hidden.
   4. A visibility icon will represent any assignment that is currently hidden from students.
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   5. Once at least one submission in the assignment column has been graded, the icon will be shaded orange.
   6. When you are ready to post your grades, select the “Post Grades” option from the assignment drop-down menu.
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How-to: Extra Credit Points

1. To create an extra credit column in your gradebook, go to the Assignments area of your course and create a new assignment.
2. The settings this assignment should have are: 0 points, and Submission Type: No Submission
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3. You can then enter the extra credit points for each student in this assignment’s column in the Grades area of your course.
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How-to: Extra Credit with Weighted Grading

If you are weighting assignment groups in your course to produce a weighted total grade, you would follow the steps to create an extra credit assignment and grade column. In order to ensure that the extra credit reflects appropriately in the weighted total, follow the steps below:

1. Create an assignment group for the extra credit assignment (in this example, the assignment group will be called “Extra Credit”) 
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2. Set the assignment group to be worth 0% of the total grade 
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3. Once all assignments in the course have been graded, change the assignment group to be worth an additional % of the total grade. Typically, it is best to make this % be the max points a student could earn at extra credit. (In this example, the max extra credit points possible was 6 points, so the Extra Credit group will be worth 6% of the total grade. The new course weighted total is 106%)