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Canvas - How do I provide flexibility in scoring student assignments and quizzes?
Assignments
- Exclude whole assignment from final grade.
- Manage duplicate assignments when students have submitted to both:
1. Pick one of the two as "the" assignment and have students resubmit to that one assignment.
2. Change the two assignments to Do not count assignment towards the final grade and create a new assignment (no submission) to post the grades for the students. Their submissions stay in separate, still accessible areas, but the grades are all in one column.
3a. Assign the individual students to the assignments they submitted to. Then the assignment won't show up twice for them in their grades. For the instructor, the column will be grayed out in the gradebook and unable to put in a point for the assignment they aren't on.
OR
3b. Instead of assigning to the individual students, excuse students from the second assignment/the one they didn't submit to.
Classic Quizzes
- Changing a graded quiz to a practice quiz will remove it from the gradebook.
- How to view practice quiz results.
- Regrade an individual quiz question that needs to be corrected.
- Add fudge points to a student's overall quiz score.
New Quizzes
- Changing a graded quiz to Do not count assignment towards the final grade will remove this assessment from final grade calculations.
- Regrade an individual quiz question that needs to be corrected.
- Add fudge points to a student's overall quiz score.
Assignment Groups/Gradebook
- Create rules for an assignment group to drop the lowest or highest scores.
- Excusing individual assignments in the gradebook.
- Weight the final course grade based on assignment groups.
Extra Credit
- There are multiple options to for adding extra credit options in Canvas, examples include:
- New assignment with zero point value
- Extra point to existing assignment
- Add fudge points to quiz
- Extra credit with assignment groups
- Etc.