1. New Grades Functionality in myCourses
Created 12/1/2017

2. Grade book new features
New Gradebook is currently being developed by Canvas. Some features are ready and can be enabled for faculty who request it.
New Gradebook features are optional for J-term and Spring semester.
Summer 2018 new Gradebook will be enabled for all courses.
Enter a support ticket to request new features to be enabled in your course;
If after enabling new grade features, you can change back to “old” version by entering another support ticket with your request.
This powerpoint explains features in the new Gradebook.

3. Grade book new features
Menu options moved to left side of grades area
New Menus options for filter and sorting
More filtering options
Unpublished assessments now appear in grades area
Option to hide or show “Unpublished” assessments columns
More color coding options
Drag and drop total and columns
Re-arrange columns

4. New Grades view
Menu options have been moved to the left side of the grades area
Improved color coding for grade status and each row includes alternating colors to help with navigation.

5. Gradebook Gradebook options Individual View
View grades by individual student (no new updates to this feature)
Gradebook History
New filter options to search previous grades activity
See next slide for grade history details

6. Gradebook History

7. View - Arrange By
Arrange By - allows you to select a specific order for columns to display in the grades area:
Assignment Name
A-Z or Z-A
Due Date
Oldest to Newest
Newest to Oldest
Points
Lowest to Highest
Highest to Lowest
Module
First to Last
Last to First
Assignment group columns can now be manually moved by dragging and dropping to a new position.

8. View – Filters New Filter options are: Assignment Groups Modules
Sections
This option only available when course has been combined.
See next slide for details about how to use the filter

9. Using Filters Using Filters:
Select one or more of the three options to filter the grade columns.
The filter opens at the top of the grades area.
Select the Filter drop-down to select an option.
To turn off the filter, uncheck the option under the View> Filter menu.

10. View - Status New Grade Status feature:
Ability to customize the color code for each status type
When entering a grade a Grade Detail tray window will appear with these status options (see Grade Detail Tray slide)

11. Actions Actions options: Sync grades to SIS Import (grades)
These features have not changed.
Sync grades to SIS
Import (grades)
Export (grades)
If export or import has been used then it will be listed

12. Column Functionality New Column Functionality: No change:
Ability to sort by:
Grade – Low to High
Grade – High to Low
Missing
Late
Enter Grade as:
Points
Percentage
No change:
Message Students Who
Curve Grades
Set Default Grade
Mute Assignment
No longer in column menu:
Speedgrader – available in grade detail tray (see next slide)
Assignment Details

13. Grade Detail Tray

14. What functionality is no longer available
No longer can “Hide Student” names
Will be included in later enhancements
Show concluded or inactive students
This filter was not used since inactive students did not show in the grades area.

15. Phase I – In progress
New Features that will be available in the next few months
Late and missing flags with automatic deduction policies
Improved commenting
Instructor defines if grades post automatically or manually

16. Phase II – Future Work
Release date for these features is not known at this time.
Improved Grading Scheme selection on assignments.
More total viewing options, replacing ‘Treat Ungraded As Zero’.
Resizing of the total column in the gradebook.
Total grade adjustment.
‘Message Students Who’ for gradebook totals.
Turn off automatic calculation and manually enter totals.
Add more notes columns in the gradebook and export all note columns.
Add a couple points for all students on an assignment in bulk.
Option to hide points and/or percentages from students.
Grading Schemes export as they’re shown in gradebook.
Updated search allows searching for students & assignments.