Allow admins to control when grades lock in concluded grading periods

[brueckert]

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We would like to use the Term Gradebook feature recently added to Canvas. It would allow us to stay in a single course for the entire school year, allowing us to keep learning mastery data in tact, while still giving us the ability to report grades at the end of each term. In its current form, faculty are locked out of editing grades when the grading period ends. This is problematic for our institution. We live on a trimester schedule where a term might end on a Friday, and the next trimester would start on a Monday or Tuesday. Our faculty are grading exams and papers for at least a week into the next Trimester, sometimes longer. Faculty need access to grades from a prior period, even if that period is concluded.

My feature request/idea is this: separate locking down of grades from the end of the grading period and put it in control of the admins. Admins can either set a separate "lock down date," flip a switch manually, or not lock down grades at all. This would greatly improve this feature for institutions like ours, who want flexibility, as well as those who need secure grades passed to their SIS.

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[cwruck]

We're working on designs for this and hope to begin work on weighted grading periods and locked grading periods in the next few weeks.

[cwruck]

We have designs finished and have scoped the work at a high level. Our current plan is to work on an improved version of grading periods after the project we're currently working on. The improved version will allow for admin reporting, grading period lock dates and will associate grading periods with terms making the administration of grading periods tons easier. We'll put together a brief of the project and post it soon. When it's posted, we'll post a link here.

[brueckert]

Awesome Deactivated user thank you for the update!

[joseph_allen]

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Thank you for the update.  I think another key piece that I hope is evident about grading periods, is that they need to be able to overlap, similar to the way terms currently work.  My school uses quarters for the most part, but there are a few courses that work on semesters.  Unfortunately you can only employ one schema.  We are certainly grateful to have grading periods as K12 would not really be able to function without them. but let's now evolve the concept to be more similar to terms in that they can overlap, are filterable on all reports etc.  I'm happy to talk at greater length on the needs if you'd like.  Thanks.  

[Renee_Carney]

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[joseph_allen]

 @Renee_Carney  is this part of the MGP v2 effort or stand alone?  Either way it is badly needed yesterday.

[Renee_Carney]

Hi Joe.  This is part of the Canvas Studio: Multiple Grading Periods V2

[Renee_Carney]

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[Renee_Carney]

Thank you to  @brueckert  for submitting this idea, as well as,  @lane_worrall ​, cbarham​,  @sam_dickerman ​,  @clong ,  @shannon_larrea ​,  @joseph_allen ​, nlatimer for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of the Canvas!