Hide grades with manual posting

Senast reviderad: 2022-01-27

 

If you want to be able to do all the assessments before letting your students see their results, you may do so by setting the Grading Posting Policy to Manually Post Grades. It's important that you do this before doing your assessments.

The setting can be adjusted as soon as the assignment is created. Teachers in the course can see all the comments and grades even if the grades are hidden.

Hide grades for students for each assignment

  1. Go to Grades and click on the three dots next to the assignment in the Gradebook.
  2. Click on Grades Posting Policy.
  3. Choose Manually. (The default in Canvas is set to Automatically, meaning that students get their grades as soon as they are set. Although some universities have changed the default to Manually.)
  4. Click on Save    

Hide grades.

Check whether an assignment is set to manual posting

It says MANUAL if an assignment is set to manual posting. You can safely enter comments and grades in SpeedGrader, the students will neither see your comments or grades.

 

Så ser man inställningarna för varje uppgift  

  1. Manual posting on an assignment where grading has begun.
  2. Manual posting
  3. Grading has begun
  4. Nothing is hidden

Nota bene! Before any grading has been done you will not see the crossed out eye in the Gradebook. If it says MANUAL you may begin grading without the students being able to see your work. The eye icon will appear when you start grading. If you want to see the icon you can start grading "Teststudent" (that is if any teacher has used Student view on the course, otherwise there will be no teststudent in the Gradebook).
If the crossed out eye is there but MANUAL isn't shown, it could be that the Grades Posting Policy has been changed or that someone has clicked on the eye (and therefor hidden the grade) for ONE student in SpeedGrader. In that case, go to Grades Posting Policy and change to Manually.

Showing grades to students

When you would like to show the grades for your students go to Grades and locate the assignment in the Gradebook.

  1. Click on the three dots next to the assignment.
  2. Click on Post Grades.
  3. Select how posting should be done. If you choose Graded only the students with grades will be notified that they have received a grading (such as a letter assessment, a point score or "complete"). If you choose Everyone also the potential comments that you or your colleagues have written will be sent out to the students that yet haven't received a grade.
  4. Click on Post.

 

Showing grades to students.


Only comments? Be aware of this!

Be aware that posting grades is connected with the box for assessment in SpeedGrader. Thereby a letter assessment, a point score or "complete" needs to be there in order for Canvas to understand that grading has taken place. A commentary by itself is not considered to be a grading.

If you only write a comment without setting a grade the eye icon won't appear and it might confuse you. Don't worry. If the assignment from the start is set for manual posting, comments in the side menu and inside the document won't be seen by your students. Although this can also be a problem; how do you publish these comments without setting a grade?

Post your comments like this

  1. Set a grade for "Teststudent", that is the dummy student that is created when you click on Student view. It doesn't matter what grade you give.
  2. Choose Post grades.
  3. Choose posting to Everyone, not only the Graded. In this manner all the comments will be visible for the students, even though they haven't been graded in the box for assessment. 


Manual posting when grading a Quiz

Also Quizzes kan be set for manual posting of grades. In that case students will not be able to see their quiz results until you choose to publish the grading. If you want to use this method for hiding results in a self correcting quiz it is important that you turn on the manual posting before the students start answering the quiz.

Good to know

  • It is possible to change the Grading Policy for the whole course so that all grades are posted manually. Read an instruction about this in Canvas' own guides Links to an external site..
  • If the course participants are divided into several Sections the posting can be handled section by section.
  • When grades are hidden the students can't see the comments from their teachers. They can however see comments from fellow students in those cases where Peer reviewing is in use.