Use an Assignment to remove points?

[JustinHugill]

Sorry if I've posted this in the wrong place, I've been thrown into Canvas with zero knowledge.

Is there a way of removing points automatically from a Students grading.

For instance, if there were two assignments as below:

Final Physical hand in - Graded out of 100

Digital Files upload - Marked as a Complete/Incomplete.

If a student would have got a 65 out of 100 for their physical hand in, but their Digital files were not uploaded and this is marked as incomplete, I would want their grade to drop 10 points to 55.

I hope this makes sense, so far the additional assignment just adds points if complete.

We are trying to streamline workload and marking.

Thanks

[melodyc_lam]

@JustinHugill You can't remove points like that, unfortunately.

But you can make the "digital files upload" assignment as an assignment that doesn't count towards final grading and then grade the physical hand in by grading it and applying the points penalty when you enter in the points on the assignment or through the Canvas gradebook. 

Hopefully this makes sense!

[paul_fynn]

@melodyc_lam offers you one solution.

My solution would simply be to take the physical and digital hand in, nd use the grading rubric in Canvas to grade the physical hand in.

If the digital version has not been uploaded, you will be abel to see that and deduct your marks as intended.

The presence of a mark should (I think?) override the missing submission.

[JustinHugill]

@melodyc_lam , @paul_fynn , thanks for the feedback, I suspected it wasn't possible to do it and remove the points automatically.  We are trying to get across the importance of other aspects of the course away from a physical model, so marking the digital as not counting towards final grading is going against what we want to promote.  If our students see the words 'does not count', they will take this as literal.

[melodyc_lam · Accepted solution]

@JustinHugill Gotcha! In that case could you make ONE assignment that encompasses the whole project (with details that state that you must turn in digital files AND a physical assignment), and use @paul_fynn's solution of the rubric to grade the assignment, with one rubric criterion as "turned in digital assignment"? If they didn't turn in an assignment digitally but turned in the physical assignment, their submission would be missing -- you can still assign them a grade that overrides the rubric.