Change default grading scheme

[julielkz]

We are trying to use a new custimized grading scheme to replace the default one. So I created one grade scheme at the admin console. 

We would like to set this new custimized grading scheme to be the default, but is NOT selected in every course setting. 

My script(python) can set all courses to use this new customized grading scheme by using course API(with this parameter: course[grading_standard_id]), but we do not  want this grading scheme is preselected in the course setting. When I look at the course setting API(Courses - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation ), the GET has the parameters (

"allow_student_discussion_editing" and "grading_standard_enabled"), but PUT does not have the parameter.

How can I set a new default grading scheme? and uncheck the selection?

thanks for your help!

li

[pklove]

It does have allow_student_discussion_editing

You can set the grading_standard_id via Update a course endpoint (PUT /api/v1/courses:id) with course[grading_standard_id].

When you set this, grading_standard_enabled and grading_standard_id as seen via the settings endpoint get updated.

[kimhuang]

@julielkz Hi Julie, Happy New Year!

Have you solved your problem? We(the IT folks) have been asked exactly the same request as your institute; the courses are created with the "enable course grading scheme" unchecked, when the instructor checks the "enable course grading scheme", the course grading scheme will be set to the custom grading scheme without jumping the hoops, now it is set to Canvas default one with the grade scheme id equals to "0".

BTW, I can't change the values of the grading_standard_enabled and grading_standard_id through the course settings API, the same code works on other course settings; the ones listed in the canvas live API ). I used the following python code snippet, unfortunately, it doesn't work...

url = "%s/api/v1/courses/%s/settings" % (

canvashomeurl, courseid)

print(url)

payload = {'grading_standard_enabled': 'true',

'grading_standard_id': 25}.  #<-- the default custom grading scheme

r = requests.put(url, headers=HEADERS, data=payload)

Thank you so much,

-Kim

[kimhuang]

Hi,  just in case you are interested, setting a new default grading scheme and uncheck the selection can not be done simultaneously. We either have to use the Canvas default grading scheme with the selection unchecked or set the institute specific one with the selection checked. I have confirmed it with our CSM. 

The way to set the default grading scheme is using the course API:

canvas = "https://xxxx%s.instructure.com" % (".beta")

url = "%s/api/v1/courses/%s" % (

canvas, course)

payload = {'course[grading_standard_id]': 2511}

r = requests.put(url, headers=HEADERS, data=payload)