Default Assignment Group-Weights

[luftr]

Is anyone familiar with a way to setup/create default assignment group categories and weights for an entire sub-account at the Canvas District Admin Level?  Our goal is to decrease grade pass back issues with teachers creating these on their own.

[NoahBoswell]

Hi there @luftr ,

To my knowledge, there isn't a direct way within the Canvas LMS UI to create assignment groups for every course at once. This is really something that the teacher creates and can organize to their liking. However, you could make it so your teachers need to create these assignment groups prior to the school year starting to ensure it's set up the way you wish.

I hope that helps a bit!
Noah

[luftr]

That is what I was finding, but not really the answer I wanted to hear - we have found issues when our teachers do this independently, because if they make a mistake, it doesn't match for our grade pass back to Skyward/Qmlativ.  

[stimme]

Although it doesn't apply to existing courses, if you created a template course for your top-level account and built the default weighted assignment groups there, they would be copied into future courses.

Check out this guide: How do I select a course template in an account?

[dbrace · Accepted solution]

Hi @luftr,

The only way you would be able to do this is:

1. a course template, like described by @stimme 
2. providing your faculty with a designed and programmed template (using done through the API when courses are initially created)
3. a blueprint course of some sort (that would get awkward to manage)

 -Doug