The Canvas Gradebook (just Grades in the course menu) is an overview of all the results in your course but you can also grade students from here. One row per student and one column per assignment (apart from assignment groups and total percentage).

You have a lot of filtering/sorting options from the View menu at the top (student groups, modules, sections and assignment groups) as well as the three dots in the header of each table column. If your table data is too long you can resize each column by dragging the vertical borders in each header.

Exapand columns in the gradebook.

Assign/edit grade

Grades that have been set through SpeedGrader shows up here in the Gradebook, but you can also set, edit and delete grades directly from the Gradebook. In this view Canvas is a bit more helpful compared to SpeedGrader - here you get an assignment specific drop down with the correct grading scheme (if one is used) so that you quite easily can see what grades are available. To add or change a grade simply click the cell you want to edit and input the new grade either using the drop down or enter the grade with your keyboard.

Changing grades in the Gradebook.

Grade details

To view more details about a particular grade you can click the cell whose grade you would like to inspect and then click the slider icon that appears. The details view will slide in from the right and display grade, status and comments. You can also switch student or assignment easily or access SpeedGrader for the current assignment and student.

Show grade details.

Default grade

It is possible to set a default grade for an assignment. This can be very useful for example when taking attendance at a seminar, perhaps only 4 out 100 students were not present. You can then set the failing grade for those 4 students first and then let the other 96 receive a passing grade with one click.

First set the grades that are differing from the great mass. Then click the three dots next to the assignment name use choose Set default grade. Specify what grade should be set and click Set default grade. If you would like you can also choose to Overwrite already-entered grades.

Set default grade in the Gradebook.

Grade Posting Policy

The Grade Posting Policy is used to hide grades for students until all grading work has been completed. You can read more in the article Publish grades to students.

Curve grades

If you are grading an assignment with points and need a fixed distribution Canvas can help you to curve grades. Click the three dots next to the assignment name (column header) and choose Curve grades. Enter the average score and Canvas will then adjust a bell curve around that score. Click Curve grades to apply new scores.

Curving grades in Canvas.

Warning!

The curving action is irreversible!

You can read more details about how the curving is calculated Canvas' own guide Curving Grades in Canvas.

Message students based on result or status

If you need to message students with a certain result or with a certain status you click the three dots next to the assignment name and choose Message students who. You then get to choose between the following:

Haven't submitted yet
Haven't been graded
Scored less than
Scored more than

Canvas will then automatically add the students that your selection applies to as recipients of the message you want to send.

More student information

If you click a students name in the Gradebook a so called student context card will appear to the right with a course summary with the students results/performance. The only problem with this view is that assignments that have been assigned 0 points are only displayed as 0/0 without a colored progress bar, even though the student have received a G for example.

A students context card in the Gradebook.

If you click Grades in the context card you will see the students view of their grading summary. New Analytics gives you student specific statistics of performance, interactions , communication and grades over time (for the course).

Screenshot of Course grade view in New Analytics for a specific student.

Student civic number

Sometimes you need to access a students civic number, when entering results in Ladok for example. This can be viewed in the Canvas Gradebook. Click the three dots in the Student name header cell. Go to Secondary info and choose Login ID, civic number will then be displayed just below each student name.

Show students social security number.

Colors and icons as indicators

To help you get a good overview of results and statuses a couple of color and icon indicators are present in the Gradebook. The following icons are used.

Table listing status icons in the grade book.
	Urkund status: Screening is running but has not yet finished.
	Urkund status: Screening done and result is available. The color of the icon indicates the similarity score. From low to high similarity: blue - green - yellow - red.
	Urkund status: An error occurred while scanning (go to SpeedGrader to manually trigger another scanning attempt).
	Submission not graded.
	Grade posting set to manually.
	One or more grades are unpublished.

And these are the standard coloring of cells with different statuses. These can be changed by clicking the three dots next to their name and you can access this list from View then Statuses.

Coloring of submission statuses.

If one of your columns are grey grading for that assignment is disabled. This is most likely due to either it being an unpublished assignment or that it is set to anonymous grading (grades must be posted for the assignment before they show up in the Gradebook).

Import and export

You find the Import/Export tools under Actions, however the only format available is CSV (comma-separated values). This is a plain text file with one student and all their results per row separated by commas, but you can open it in Excel. If some characters (like Å, Ä, Ö) are wrongly displayed or if everything seems to be placed in one single column please check out the article Fix characters and columns in CSV files for Excel.

If you don't want to change the settings in the article mentioned above another option is to use the Import feature in Excel. Open Excel, create a new workbook, go to the Data tab and click From Text/CSV. Then choose the file that was downloaded when you clicked Export in Canvas and click Import (in Excel).

Import CSV into Excel.

You first get a preview of what the Excel import will look like. If you see a problem with Å, Ä, Ö or other special characters switch to 65001: Unicode (UTF-8) under File Origin. Then click Load.

Set to UTF-8 and then load.

You should then get a table with regular sorting and filtering options enabled.

Excel import is done.

If you find that you don't recognize some of the data exported, be sure to read about how the different options of Display grade as impacts exports. This can be found in the first table in the article Points and grades in the Assignments module.