When Course Evaluations & Surveys is integrated with Instructure’s Canvas LMS, you can utilize the Canvas Gradebook feature to encourage students to complete their course evaluations.
This feature allows you to give points to students for completing their course evaluation.
NOTE
To utilize the Canvas Gradebook feature, the CES Administrator must enable it at the Account-level.
Canvas Gradebook for Instructors
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 (column name is the Project name) with the corresponding points added, for each student who has completed a specified survey.
Click the Update link for the desired course to assign Gradebook points:
Canvas Gradebook points can be assigned by going to Results Canvas Gradebook Update. Subsequent assignments of points will overwrite previous assigned points to the student and course, not assign additional.
Click the Update link for the desired course to assign Gradebook points:
Here, 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 Survey Opt-Out), 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.
Update Canvas Gradebook: After you have configured how you want 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.
Additionally, Instructors can view the historical updates for the course by going to Results Canvas Gradebook Update.
Click the Update link for the desired course to assign Gradebook points:
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.