Letter Grading Mixed with Complete/Incomplete Grading Option

[Carter41]

Is it possible to have the option to give a student either a letter grade or a complete/incomplete grade?

We will be having for-credit students in a class that requires a letter grade, mixed with non-credit students that would require a complete/incomplete grade. This would ideally apply to both assignments and the final course grade. Thanks!

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @Carter41,

The only way I know of to do this would be to create separate assignments with each grading option, and then assign the appropriate assignment to the appropriate students (or sections, if they are nicely divided out).  In my opinion as a Canvas admin, this seems like it may be better off as two distinct courses (even if the only difference is the grading).  The gradebook in a single course is going to get very large with essentially duplicated assignments.

The only other option I can think of is to just grade everyone with a letter grade and tell the complete/incomplete students what the letter grade threshold is to get a "complete" for the entire course.

Hope this helps a bit!

-Chris

[Carter41]

Appreciate your insight, thanks!

[WatsonWork]

An option that we are "trialling" for some courses that have two different exit points like this is to be using Outcomes for the rubric, and then for students who are Complete/Incomplete they needed to have just shown Mastery of the outcomes during the course. This still requires assessors to look in two places and some student training.

We don't have the rubric auto-generate grade so it is also conceivable that if you could use an additional Grade Letter that isn't your usual A-E etc. This would work nicely if you use the new "letter grade" mode (ie "restrict quantitative data"  mode).

Gareth  

[Carter41]

Thanks for the tip @WatsonWork. I'm not exactly sure I follow, but isn't it true that there is a percentage (or points) range that you have to use? So if I follow the default letter-grading chart attached, then how would there be room for Complete/Incomplete scoring?