Gradebook AI

[awilson9]

A faculty member stopped by today asking if the Canvas gradebook could pick the 10 highest quizzes to calculate student averages and exclude the other lowest quizzes from the overall course grade.  I know Canvas can do this with an individual quiz with multiple attempts, but I don't know how it currently would be able to do this.  Has anyone found a way to make this work without the faculty member needing to create a spreadsheet and manually calculate the overall grade?

Thank you!

[chriscas]

Hi @awilson9,

If the quizzes are all set up in a single assignment group, the instructor could create rules to drop the lowest X quizzes (X = 10 - number of quizzes available).  I will mention for this to work right, any quizzes students did not do would need to be graded as a 0, because Canvas automatically ignores unsubmitted work, and then it would further drop more quizzes after that with the rule (since it's not KEEP the 10 highest, but drop the lowest 10-n).

Hope this makes sense and helps a bit!

-Chris