[ARCHIVED] Grading Periods - Year 2 - What happens?

[joseph_allen]

This past school year, we implemented grading periods.  It has been very helpful in enabling teachers to grade and students and parents to view grades in a traditional quarterly format for our K12 district.  Over the year, Canvas has been helpful in adding grading period filters to the Canvas browser, adding grading periods to gradebook export reports, and adding the grading periods to the mobile app. More needs to be done like enabling admin options for locking or unlocking once a grading period passes and allowing grading periods to overalp, but its been a good start so far.  But now it's time for summer school and Year 2 of grading periods.

Question - Grading periods as is, while helpful in many ways, seems to be very limited in the sense that they cannot overlap and I'm also wondering as we begin summer school and the next school year, what we do with all of this year's grading periods? Was the intention that they be deleted and we create new ones?  If so, all of school year 15/16 grades will be mixed across grading periods and become virtually worthless since grades are done on a quarter, not a full year aggregate in K12.  If that is the case, then we need to somehow take a snapshot in time of all grades and assignments by grading period so we have that type of permanent record.   If I keep the grading periods from Sy15/16, the list begins to build and get longer.  When you click the filters, you'd see all grading periods from Sy15/16, Summer school, SY16/17 and so on.  That is obviously not intuitive or user friendly.   What are your thoughts on moving from year to year with grading periods while some how archiving or preserving the original courses and grading periods? Is that even possible?

[Stef_retired]

 @joseph_allen ​, I've shared your post with the K-12​ group, as those are the primary users of multiple grading periods. I've also changed the format to a discussion, since your prompt is unlikely to elicit a single "correct" response, but is more in keeping with open-ended participation.

[Stef_retired]

 @joseph_allen ​, I just discovered that you've posted two separate questions, one here in the Canvas Admins​ group and another one in K-12​. Did you know that you can share a post into more than one community space? Rather than creating two copies with differing comment threads, you can create your post in one group and then use the Share link in the upper right to share it into additional spaces. Because you are a member of the admin group, for example, you can ask questions or start a discussion in the Start a Discussion/Question... area of this group, and then share it into any other group of which you are a member.

Since this question already exists in the K-12 group, and has already elicited a response, I'm going to lock this discussion so that we can keep community resources consolidated and more readily searchable, and this way we can avoid duplication of effort. I've shared the duplicate discussion--Grading Periods - Year 2 - What happens?--into the Canvas Admins group.