Remember to turn on manual post grades

Posted on: 10 May 2021 by Strategic Change Communications Team in Canvas at Liverpool

Did you know that by default Canvas automatically posts grades to students as soon as you submit a mark. This can potentially cause issues with students seeing marks before they're moderated or before they are available for the full cohort. To avoid this happening, make sure you change the grade posting setting of your course to manual, before any assignments, such as online submissions or quizzes, are submitted by your students. This can still be applied after students submissions providing no marks have been submitted.

How to change settings to manual post grades

Go to your course and click on Grades.
The Grades area will open with a list of student names and any assignments you've set up. Click on the cog in the top right hand corner.

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Grades area of a Canvas course, cog in right hand corner.
A pop up box will appear, click on Grade Posting Policy tab.
Automatically Post Grades will be selected, click on the empty circle next to Manually Post Grades.
Click Update to save your setting.

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Any existing or future assignments you set up in your course will now hide the marks from students. You'll notice this in Grades by an eye symbol appearing next to each assignment column. The Canvas SpeedGrader assignments, there are no longer post dates, and you have to manually post the grades to students.

To post the grades to students, in Grades, if you click on the 3 dots next to the assignment name - a pop up box will appear and the option to Post Grades will be available. Once you post the grades, the students will be notified by email that their marks and feedback are available to view.

For Turnitin - there is a post date applied to a Turnitin link. Students can view their Turnitin feedback and marks when a post date is met by navigating to the Turnitin submission link. Canvas will also create a column in Grades for Turnitin submission links and you can control posting of grades too.

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