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
- Click Results > Canvas Gradebook Update
- Using the filter options, find the course where you wish to add points and click the Update link next to the course
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Click the History link to view the historical Canvas Gradebook Updates for the desired course:
Student Gradebook
The student can view the Canvas Gradebook points assigned after completing the survey on the Grades page of the course in Canvas.
