Unable to Hide Quiz Scores from Parents Before Publishing – Canvas Admin & Teacher Permissions Issue

[AbdulKhadar]

Hi everyone!

In our school, we've traditionally used the quiz application in Canvas for conducting exams. Typically, teachers could set their own grading policies for quizzes they created, including options for manually controlling when scores are visible to students and parents.

However, after a recent exam, we encountered an issue: teachers are unable to hide quiz scores from parents until they're ready to publish them. Parents can see scores immediately, even before teachers have published the results.

We understand that this setting might be managed at the admin level, but ideally, we'd like teachers to have the option to control score visibility within their courses. Does anyone have a solution or workaround for granting teachers the ability to manage score visibility, or perhaps a configuration on the admin side that allows for more flexible grading controls?

Thank you in advance for any advice!

Abdul

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @AbdulKhadar,

If parents are enrolled as observers of their children, which is the most common method I know, their grade visibility should mimic that of the students.  If parents are seeing unpublished grades, it makes me think they are being given a much higher level of access to the course, which I don't think many would recommend.  Unfortunately, Instructure Community members are generally not Instructure employees, so we can't access your Canvas instance to check how things are set up.  I'd definitely have a conversation with your local Canvas team (usually in the eLearning / IT / Digital Education areas) about this to see if I am correct in my assumption, and if so if they'd be willing to adjust processes.

Hope this info helps a bit, let us know how your conversations go!

-Chris