Understanding the icons in the Grade Book

Use this Canvas guide to learn what each icon means in your module grade book

Your assignment / quiz should be set to 'Manual' so you will now need to 'manually post' the grades to students. This means that all grades and comments will be out to students at the same time.

Grades or comments can be posted to everyone or only to students with graded submissions or submissions with comments. When grades are posted to everyone, students with ungraded submissions will see that their submission does not have a grade on their grades page. When grades are only posted to students with graded submissions, students with ungraded submissions and no submission comments will see an icon on their grades page that indicates grades are still being worked on. However, students with ungraded submissions that have submission comments will be able to view submission comments.

If a manual posting policy is set for an assignment and grades are posted to everyone, the manual posting policy will become inactive and future grades will be posted automatically.

Submission comments can be posted even if no grade is entered. Students will be able to see posted comments before grades are posted.

Notes:

If you make changes to an assignment with hidden grades, the total score as you see it (in both the Gradebook and the student Grades page) will be affected. However, students will not see any changes when they view their Grades page. Once you post the assignment grades, the total grade in the student's view will update accordingly.
Grades for anonymous and moderated assignments are hidden by default. Moderated assignments grades and submission comments cannot be unhidden until final grades have been posted.
Posting grades for an anonymous assignment will remove anonymity from the assignment.
Students can see peer review comments when assignment grades are hidden. However, students can only see instructor comments if the instructor posts grades or submission comments.
If you post grades for an assignment with varied due dates, all students will receive score results at the same time.
Viewing the Total Column in the Gradebook may be restricted when multiple grading periods are enabled.
Students will not be able to see their quiz responses while quiz grades are hidden.

Open Grades in your Module

Click on Grades on your module menu

Open assignment menu

Any assignment with hidden grades is indicated by the Visibility icon [1]. Hover over the assignment column header and click the Options icon [2].

Open Post Grades

Click the Post grades link.

Select Posting Option

To post grades and submission comments to all students, click the Everyone option [1]. When the Everyone option is selected, the Visibility icon will be removed from the grades page for all students, including students with ungraded submissions. An assignment notification will also be sent to all students.

To post grades to students with graded submissions or submissions with comments, click the Graded option [2]. When the Graded option is selected, the Visibility icon will only be removed from the grades page for students with graded submissions or submissions with comments. Assignment notifications will only be sent to students with graded submissions.

Notes:

Grades can only be posted to everyone in anonymous assignments.
If grades are posted to everyone in an assignment with a manual posting policy, the manual posting policy will become inactive and future grades will be posted automatically.

Post Grades

To post grades or submission comments, click the Post button.

Your students will now get a notification regarding their grades and comments