The Gradebook helps instructors easily view and enter grades for students. Depending on the Grade display type, grades for each assignment can be viewed as points, percentage, complete or incomplete, GPA scale, or letter grade.

Only graded assignments, graded discussions, graded quizzes, and graded surveys that have been published display in the Gradebook. Not Graded assignments are not included.

If you use weighted grading, you must set up weighting in assignment groups so that your gradebook reflects category weights.

View Gradebook

The top of the Gradebook includes sorting options and settings you can use to organize your Gradebook [1], which will populate the select student data [2] and assignment data [3].

View Assignments

Each column in the Gradebook represents an assignment, graded discussion, or quiz. Each column displays the assignment title, total points, and each student's grade. Icons and colors represent assignments and submission statuses within Canvas. You can sort, resize, and reorder any assignment column. To remove a column from the Gradebook, you must delete the assignment from your course.

With Assignments in the Gradebook you can:

Evaluate student work
Enter and edit scores
Leave comments for your students
Excuse an assignment, discussion, or quiz for a student or multiple students
Exclude an assignment from the final grade

View Assignment Groups

The assignment groups shown in the Gradebook match the assignment groups created in the Assignments page. If your assignment groups are weighted, the weighted grade displays below the group title, and the assignment score earned by each student is multiplied by the weight.

View Total Grade

Grade totals are displayed in the Total column of the Gradebook. You can move the total column to the front of the Gradebook if preferred. Additionally, if your assignment groups are not weighted, you can view the totals as a point value instead of a percentage.

Assignment group weights are reflected in the total grade. The assignment grade earned by the students is multiplied by the assignment group weight and is then reflected in the Total column.

You can find more detailed instructions about the Canvas Gradebook by following the links below.