Warning When Grade Exceeds Maximum Possible

[nicole_stahl]

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It would help to have a pop-up warn you when you enter a grade into an assignment that exceeds the maximum points possible. This would prevent instructors from mistakenly inflating the assignments grades.

Just as a note, there are some instructors who hand out extra credit on a regular basis, so this pop-up should be as invasive as possible, so that it doesn't impede their ability to quickly input grades.  Maybe not a pop-up, but just a mass warning later saying "You've inputted grades that are above the maximum, did you intend to do this, yes/no?"

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[John_Lowe]

I love this suggestion!  We always have faculty that like to create 10pt daily quizzes but grade them on a 100pt scale and wonder why students suddenly have a 900% average in their course.  Still allow people to do it, but warn them when they do somehow. 

[millerjm]

This seems to be a duplicate of this idea: 

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[Renee_Carney]

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[Renee_Carney]

  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

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[Renee_Carney]

Thank you to  @nicole_stahl   for submitting this idea, as well as,  @John_Lowe  &  @millerjm  for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of the Canvas!