Auto-loading grading schemes in courses

[AngelaSolic]

We have different colleges that use different different grading schemes. 

I'm wondering if: Since we have multiple grading schemes created at the admin level... can we AUTOMATICALLY load these schemes into specific courses in certain colleges (like all classes that have the CON course name) instead of having faculty have to edit the schemes themselves?

Thank you 🙂

[Ron_Bowman]

@AngelaSolic -

It has been a long time since your post.  Hopefully you discovered the solution on your own.  I know it is possible to do it because my Institution does it.  However, I am not an admin, so I cannot tell you how it is done.  I'll tag @Chris_Hofer and he may have some ideas or @chriscas may have as well.

All I can do is point you to the admin guide page on grading schemes that mentions it, but does not really give all the details needed.

You may not be able to assign a specific grading scheme to all the courses in one college and not to another.  However, on the institution level you can create all the possible grading schemes and make them available to everyone.  Then with the proper naming, the instructors could find the one they want.  Or someone in business may decide they like the grading scheme from engineering.

Ron

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @AngelaSolic,

I believe you could set up course templates (Canvas Release: Course Templates (2021-05-15) ) with the grading schemes attached, and them set those templates as the default for a subaccount.  This would only work if your courses were subdivided into appropriate department/discipline type subaccounts though.

You could potentially also write a script that would utilize the API to crawl through courses and set the schemes up.  This option would be more flexible, but would require someone who's good at scripting, and may also need to run on some sort of schedule to keep catching new courses.

I hope one of these options may help get you closer to where you'd like to be!

-Chris