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[Canvas] User Guide: Passing Back Grades & Feedback

Best practices to ensure smooth pass-back and common issues with grade pass-back

Updated over a week ago

Passing back grades and feedback to Canvas is a sensitive but essential step. Please follow these steps to ensure everything is passed back correctly.

1. If you've graded at least one submission

You can push grades back to Canvas. Go into the View Graded Submissions page and click on Push to LMS. If you have trouble finding it, here are some screenshots to help you.

This option will be disabled if there are no graded submissions.

And then Push to LMS.

2. Pushing all or only missing grades:

You have an option once you start the push back process. You can either Push Missing Grades or Push All Grades back to the LMS. Push missing grades means only students without an evaluation on Canvas will get their grades pushed back. Push All Grades will override (if any) evaluation and push all grades/feedback back to the LMS.

We recommend sticking to Push Missing Grades, especially if you have already done any manual grading on Canvas or some grades were already passed back.

3. If rubrics are not synced:

You are going to see a pop up notifying you that the rubrics are not synced across Canvas and TimelyGrader. This may happen for a few reasons:

  1. There is no rubric on Canvas and there is a rubric on TimelyGrader. This is a common situation when instructors only want the overall grade to be shown to students. You may proceed by clicking on Continue.

  2. There are different rubrics on Canvas and TimelyGrader. Any changes, no matter how small, will cause rubrics to become un-synced. If you'd like to resync them, click here to see the relevant help article.

  3. Rubrics look exactly the same on Canvas and TimelyGrader. If you've made a change on either Canvas or TimelyGrader and then revert back, it will still cause the rubrics to become un-synced. You will need to re-sync the assignment again.

4. Grades getting pushed back:

Once you continue or if there is no Rubrics Are Not Synced pop-up, you should see a progress bar showing submissions being passed back. Do not exit or close this page during this process, as it may disrupt the pass-back process.

Once completed:

5. Grades may be made available to students immediately:

Depending on visibility options on Canvas, students may be able to see grades and feedback immediately. Please double-check these settings to ensure they are correct.

Remember that your assignments also need to be set up to be compatible with TimelyGrader. For more details, please read this article here.

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