Group Grading

[BlaineDenton]

Hi,

I set a project as a group project where students can self-select their own groups. So far they've created their groups but when I grade one student, that score doesn't populate to the other group members. The "assign grades individually" box is not checked, so I'm not sure what setting I need to change to get everyone in the group graded together.

Thank you

[JeffCampbell · Accepted solution]

Two things to check. First, make sure that grading for the assignment is set up to Group in the assignment settings AND that you have identified which Group Set it should be connected too. It sounds like it is set to group grading if you can see the grade individually checkbox, but it can be easy to overlook the Group Set option right underneath that.

Second, if you go to Speedgrader and see an individual name, then they have not joined a group. It should say "[Group Set Name] Group ##" in the top right. This can cause it not to connect the grade you give them to the rest of the group.

Check if both of those are good. If they are, then it could be something else.

[NicholeHeitzenr]

Do you possibly have any other suggestions? Everything for my faculty seems to be set up right. Students are in groups (self signup) and the right group set was seemingly selected. But the grading is behaving as if there are no groups at all 

[JeffCampbell]

You mentioned that they are in a group and the group set was selected. You did not mention grade individually option. It is here in the assignment editor:

For what you are wanting, that should be unchecked. Please check that. If that is unchecked, then all of your settings appear to have been done correctly as far as I can tell.

[NicholeHeitzenr]

Thanks for the speedy reply! It is unchecked. I didn't assist in the creation of this group, or assignment, so my information is pretty limited.

[JeffCampbell]

If that is unchecked, the assignment is set to the right group, and students are in groups, I am unsure why it is showing individual names. On my end, the only time I have seen that is for students who have not joined a group or that checkbox is unchecked. At this point, I might suggest that the teacher submit a help ticket. I would highly advise that they include a screenshot similar to the one I shared to show the Group settings for the assignment. This way, if there is a glitch, they can try to look at the course and assignment.

I have noticed that I tend to have more issues when students self sign up rather than be assigned (some of the issues caused by students). Self Sign Up is definitely easier on us, but an alternative is to do the sign-up off of Canvas, then the teacher makes the groups. One way to make this easier...CSV importing. If you go to the People page, then create a group set (but not groups), there is an Import option in the upper right. This will pop up a menu to import a file. Near the bottom is a template file that can be downloaded. This template is course specific and will include a list of all students (and multiple columns of pre-set data) currently enrolled in that course. You may need to expand the column widths, but the final column is "group_name". The teacher just needs to put group names into that column before importing that file (do not change any of the information in the other columns). It will create groups based on the names and assign all students with the same group name into that group. This at least eliminates the tedious task of manually putting students into groups on the group page.

More info here including the steps for best practice: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-import-groups-in-a-group-set/ta-p/41779...