​Are you tired of your students complaining because their Canvas percentages don’t exactly match their Gradebook ones?
 
This can be a result of a couple of things:

1. Gradebook is weighted and CANVAS is not.  (Sorry, but at this point you will have to wait until second semester to make weighting changes.)
2. Gradebook is rounding to a different place value than Canvas.
3. You have assignments in Groups in CANVAS that are not the “approved talking” groups in Gradebook
   ​a.  The assignment goes up to Gradebook from CANVAS but isn’t being calculated because it doesn’t have an approved or matching category to drop into.

 
Here is a quick and simple way to get rid of the CANVAS percentages so kids are forced to see their grades in Gradebook.  (Remember, Gradebook is the official grade calculator for the district.)
 
In CANVAS:

1. Choose the course. (You will have to do this for all courses individually, I am sorry to say.)
2. Go to “Settings”
3. Scroll down on the settings page until you see “More Options”.

​    4.  Click on “More Options.
    5.   lt will  open a set of drop downs with checks.
          a.  Find the one that says “Hide totals in student grades summary”, and check that box.
          b.  By checking this box you turn off all of the percentages for each group in CANVAS for students.      You as the teacher will still see them, however.

​1. To filter your grades so that you no longer see 1st Quarters grades you will want to click on the drop-down by “View” towards the top.

​2. Click on “Filters” and then check mark “Grading Periods”.  

​3. This will open a Grading Period filter on the right-hand side. 

​4. You can then toggle the grading period to Grading Period 2, and only have to look at the Grading Period 1 assignments if you need to.  


No, more creating groups that don’t push to Gradebook, or seeing all the assignments and grades in a huge list.

​It is easy to filter Canvas so that you are only seeing the assignments and grades for a specific grading period.  Canvas is set up by semesters so if you do not filter by grading period you and your kids will have to scroll through all the assignments for the entire semester. 
Here is how you do it:

1. (This will need to be done in each course.) The default under the “Assignments” tab is “All Grading Periods.  This can be seen at the top of the page along the same lines as “+Assignment”.

 

2. Click on the drop-down arrow next to “All Grading Periods”.  This will open so that you see four separate grading periods for the class.  (Yes, I realize that you get new classes with new course numbers at second semester.)
           a. When you are ready to move to “Grading Period 2” click on that and it will hold.  
           b. You will notice unless you have assignments with “Due Dates” in for second grading period that it might be blank.  If you have assignments in with second term due dates those will now be what you are seeing in your assignments list.
         c. If you use multiple groups and have assignments in those groups they will be showing under their respective groups as you created, it.
 
3. Once you have chosen the respective grading period it should stay that way for you.  

4. Students will also, need to toggle their grading periods as well. 
 
5. This will make it so much easier to find the assignments you are using for second quarter.