Grades entered manually are not "sticking"

[MariaCardona]

Some of the grades I am entering manually continue to show the comment icon instead of the actual grade.  I have tried to change it several times unsuccessfully.  How can I fix it?

[mzimmerman · Accepted solution]

Hi @MariaCardona 

If you are entering grades for an assignment or a quiz where there are submissions, you will want to look at the SpeedGrader for the assignment.  I think that the icon you're describing is not really a "comments" icon, but the icon indicating that there is a submission which needs to be graded.

From https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-use-the-icons-and-colors-in-the-Gradebo... 

A submission is noted as needing to be graded in the following conditions:

• A submission has been received but has not been graded
• A submission was graded but the grade was removed by the instructor
• An assignment or quiz was resubmitted
• A quiz was submitted in Classic Quizzes, but is not fully graded (contains questions that must be manually graded, or an auto-submitted quiz score has been deleted and needs to be reassigned); can also display if a quiz has been edited and includes major changes that affect the quiz score, such as deleting questions or deleting quiz answers, and requires a grader to manually resolve