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Students who submit or resubmit work to Canvas after I've entered the grades into our official gradebook are expected to email me screenshots of improved grades in Canvas. I then update them in our official gradebook outside Canvas. This used to work great. Unfortunately, this year, they can type in whatever grade they want, and I can't tell the difference. The ability for my students to manually input a grade on their grades page has always been a bit annoying, but in the past, there was a small symbol next to the grade that made it clear that the grade had been inputed by the student. When they sent me screenshots with that symbol next to the grade I was able to address the dishonesty and not put those grades in. This year the symbol is gone. I only noticed because a student put all 100's including future assignments they couldn't possibly have completed.
Without this symbol I will have to enter each grade in Canvas and then in our gradebook one at a time as I grade them, because there's no easy way to view newly graded assignments by section.
Can anyone help?
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Hi there @BROOKEBREI ,
You're able to see in the top-right hand side of the page that grades on the page were modified by your student if they submit you a screenshot, and you'd be able to address it that way.
When it comes to entering in the SIS gradebook, I know there are some schools that have their SIS synced to Canvas, and it will automatically update in the SIS overnight from Canvas. Would your school by chance have anything like that set up? Now, this can also vary from institution to institution with rules, but I know some teachers that don't use the Canvas gradebook, they just review the assignment on Canvas and put the grade right into their SIS.
You can also have the students just take pictures of the score from the assignment's page itself, instead of from the grades page where they are able to change them themselves.
Do any of these sound like possible solutions?
Noah