Transfer grades from a live course

[mary1]

Hello!  I have a problem transferring grades from one section of a course to another taught by a different teacher within the organization. I know how to find grades from concluded sections of the course offered in previous semesters. However, I can't find a way to view the grades of previously submitted work by the student in the live and on going course. I tried reading the message board and only find instructions on programming. This might help,... but I must shamefully admit utter ignorance when it comes to programming. Help please! 

[mzimmerman]

Hi @mary1 

Do you have access to the previous course in Canvas (including individual assignments), or only to the final grades?  Unless you have access to the previous course, or have a copy of the exported grade book from the previous course, there is not a way to see those individual assignment grades.

Unfortunately, there isn't really an easy, automated way to transfer assignment grades from one course to another.   If you have a grade book export file from the previous course, it is possible to do an import into the current course using the steps at

How do I import grades in the Gradebook 

However, the process requires individually matching each of the assignments in the previous course to the equivalent assignment in the new course.

[mary1]

Thank you for replying. The problem isn't importing them, but in exporting them. I don't mind typing them in by hand (it is only about a dozen grades), but I need to first know what the old scores were. How can I tell my colleagues to find and export the old scores? 

[mzimmerman · Accepted solution]

There are instructions at

How do I export grades in the Gradebook 

[Ron_Bowman]

@mary1 in addition to what @mzimmerman provided, I will tell you what I do for situations like what you are describing.  This procedure may apply to you and it may not.  If your colleague has the exact same students as you do(or even if yours are a subset of those students), then your colleague exports the gradebook as described.  You can then take that csv file and perform a slight tweak to the grade column headings and directly import the csv file and the grades  into your course.

Procedure for the import

1) in you colleagues class lets say the assignment is Project10.  In the csv it will have Project10(#######) where #### is the database number associated with that assignment.

2) in your class you create an assignment to hold the grade that you are going to import.  give it the same name as your colleagues - that is Project10.  

3) in your course the data  base number in parentheses will be different than your colleagues.  So all you do is take the csv file and change your colleagues data base number to yours and then import the file.

4) if there are more students in your colleagues course than yours (in other words you only want a subset of the students), Canvas will come up stating as such on the import and all those students can be ignored.

Hopefully that makes sense and may be something you want to consider

Ron