General Canvas Gradebook Help
The gradebook in Canvas has a variety of views and settings that can help personalize your experience in reviewing and entering in your student grades. Below lists the different ways to adjust and navigate through the gradebook to simplify your gradebook experience.
Use Your Keyboard to Navigate
You can keyboard navigate (tab, enter, and arrow keys to change cells. Click the keyboard icon in the upper-right corner for more information.
Access Assignment Column Settings
Click on the column header options icon (three dots) to:
- sort the column by ascending or descending scores, missing, or late submissions (Sort by)
- go directly to the SpeedGrader
- Message Students Who haven’t submitted assignments or have scored more or less than a given number of points
- Set Default Grade to enter 0 for any missing assignments, or a default grade that the majority of the students earned (enter exceptions first)
- Post/Hide grades or set a Grade Posting Policy to adjust visibility for students
Use the View dropdown menu to:
- order columns by assignment name, due date, points, or module (Arrange By)
- show only certain columns using assignment groups and/or modules (Filters)
- show only specific students by section and/or assignment group (Filters)
- change the color highlighting of late, missing, resubmitted, dropped, or excused assignments (Statuses...)
- show or hide notes column (visible only to instructors) and/or unpublished assignment column
Use Gradebook History to:
See when grades were changed and by whom. You can filter by:
- student
- grader
- artifact
- date range
Scores that Canvas generates automatically, such as graded quizzes or missing assignments, will show blank in the grader column.