[ARCHIVED] Gradebook - Locking assignment grades

[nhiggins]

Hello, I am using some auto graded assignments from a publishers website that is integrated into my Canvas course. When the assignment is completed the grade is then synced to my Canvas gradebook.  Sometimes I need to change the grade sent by the publish.  When I do change it, the next day it is overwritten by the publishers sync.  Is there a way to lock the grades on an assignment so that it cannot be overwritten by the publishers sync? I know if I set a default grade, that grade will not get overwritten. by the sync.

Thanks, Neil

[Steven_S]

Have you tried making your update in the publisher's system so that the transferred score is correct?

The publisher systems I've worked with transfer scores on a schedule, and warn that late submissions won't transfer.  There might be a setting you could adjust there to avoid daily updates of prior assignments. 

If those ideas don't help, all I can suggest is checking do not count towards grades in the canvas assignment settings, and then making another assignment set to "no submission" for you to record the actual grade.

[GinaMarrow]

I support this idea. In fact, I would love to see a general grade lock feature (not just for external tools and integrations) that gives us the option to lock any assignment column after the grades have been posted, to prevent accidentally overwriting the grade.

[Chris_Hofer]

@GinaMarrow ...

Although @nhiggins had posted this as a question in the Questions portion of the Canvas Community, this is not the same as posting it as an Idea for Instructure (the folks that make Canvas) to consider implementing in Canvas.  If you would like to see something like this added to the core Canvas product, you could submit it via the "Ideas and Themes" space here in the Community.  In order to do that, I'd recommend first taking a look at the linked Guides available under the heading "Ideas and Themes" located here:

Instructure Community Guide - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Once you've looked through that documentation, navigate over to:

Canvas Ideas and Themes - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Then, click on the blue "View and Submit Ideas" button.  On the following screen, click on the blue "Submit an Idea" button.

Hopefully this will be enough to get you started.  Sing out if you have any questions...thanks!