Change from automatic to manual grade posting after student submissions.

[AdamB4]

Apologies in advance for what I'm sure is a very straightforward answer:

I am grading essay responses (SpeedGrader) to a Classic Quiz prior to its due date; however, I want to hide scores/submission comments to ensure students do not assist one another with my feedback before the item is due for the entire class.

I'm aware that I should have used a manual posting policy, and will do so on future essays. For this particular assignment, some students have already submitted their work. If I set the grade policy for this particular item to "manual" now, will it apply to those students who have already submitted work, as long as I haven't graded their submissions? I know that changing a graded item's policy from automatic to manual does not apply retroactively to those already-graded submissions, but what about those that have been submitted, but have not been manually assigned grades? (these entries simply show the submission icon in the Canvas gradebook)

Appreciate any feedback, and thank you.

[nuscitpkg · Accepted solution]

Hi @AdamB4 ,

You have to hide grades as detailed here. This will hide both the grades and comments of all the students you graded before you changed the posting policy for Automatic to Manual.

[nuscitpkg · Accepted solution]

Hi @AdamB4 ,

You have to hide grades as detailed here. This will hide both the grades and comments of all the students you graded before you changed the posting policy for Automatic to Manual.

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @AdamB4,

Just a quick additional comment on top of this.  You can definitely hide the already posted grades/comments, which will affect all of the submissions you've already worked on.  You would also need to change the policy to manual so that everything else you grade from now on would be hidden.

Even if you do this though, many students probably have grade notifications turned on and may have already seen their grades and comments for the quiz (or have them waiting in their email box).  Once you hide things, they can't go back into Canvas and see them again until you post everything, but the notifications aren't something you can take back.  I thought this should be explicitly stated for you or anyone else who comes across this post in the future.

-Chris

[AdamB4]

I appreciate the replies. Thank you both.

That being said, I may need to clarify one thing:

For those few students who have already submitted their work, I have not yet graded these submissions. These are essay responses that require grade input on my end. So, I suppose my question is: I know that changing from automatic to manual grading after a grade has been assigned will not hide those grades/comments; however, what if I have not yet assigned a grade, and the student has simply submitted their (ungraded) work? Do these ungraded submissions still count as "graded" by Canvas, thus requiring me to hide those specific entries to prevent these students from seeing any future grades/comments? (rather than, say, apply a blanket manual grading policy change in the gradebook to this particular item)

Again, much appreciated. Thanks for your time.

[chriscas]

Hi @AdamB4,

If there are no auto-graded questions (like multiple choice, true/false, etc) and you have not done any grading or commenting (commenting and grading are kind of lumped together) at all yet, switching to manual posting policy should be sufficient.  In that case, you'll likely see the Hide Grades option grayed out because there would be nothing to hide.  If the Hide Grades option is available, I'd probably end up using that too just to be certain though.

-Chris