Instructor: Canvas Gradebook for Instructors

When Course Evaluations & Surveys is integrated with Instructure Canvas LMS, you can utilize the Canvas Gradebook feature to encourage students to complete their course evaluations.

The Canvas Gradebook feature provides the ability to assign a specific number of points for completed surveys, and then automatically have a Gradebook item generated with the corresponding points added for each student who has completed a specified survey.

NOTE: To utilize the Canvas Gradebook feature, the CES Administrator must enable it at the Account-level.

Canvas Gradebook for Instructors

  1. Click Results > Canvas Gradebook Update

    The Results menu expanded showing options including Response Rate Tracker, Project Results, Instructor Results, Report Builder, Public Reporting, Results Feedback, and Canvas Gradebook Update with Canvas Gradebook Update highlighted.

  2. Using the filter options, find the course where you wish to add points and click the Update link next to the course

    The Gradebook Update page showing Search Courses section with fields for Project, Course Code, Course Title, and Days Project Ended dropdown set to 1 Month, with Search and Reset buttons below. The Available Courses section appearing under the search panel.

  3. This will open a box where you can configure the following fields:
    • Response Type: Allows the Instructor to choose if the points apply to submitted evaluations, or opted-out responses (if using the optional Survey Opt-Out feature), or to both.
    • Points: Assign the number of points that will be added when a student completes the survey for the course.
    • Notes (Optional): Add notes to the Canvas Gradebook Update History for the course to provide additional notes of how or why the points were assigned.

      The Update Canvas Gradebook window showing project and course details, Response Type dropdown, Points field, Notes field, and Close and Update Canvas Gradebook buttons.

  4. After you have configured how you wish to assign points to the Canvas Gradebook, click Update Canvas Gradebook to push points to students in the course who have completed their course evaluation.
  5. If you wish to change the points, follow the steps above and then click the Update link for the desired course.  Subsequent submissions will update the points and will not create duplicates.

  6. Click the History link to view the historical Canvas Gradebook Updates for the desired course:
    The Update Canvas Gradebook History window showing project and course details and a results table with columns for Counter, Response Type, Points, Notes, Triggered By, Triggered On, and Status. The table showing one entry for submitted responses with 3 points, a note for submitting the survey, trigger details, timestamp, and saved grades status. The Close button appearing at the bottom.

Student Gradebook

The student can view the Canvas Gradebook points assigned after completing the survey on the Grades page of the course in Canvas.

The Grades page for the selected course showing a grade entry labeled EK Project Name with a score of 3.5 out of 3.5, followed by Canvas Course Test and the Assignments and Total summaries.

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