As a student i feel it would be very helpful if there was a tab where you could see your grades for all your classes right next to each other along with an overall GPA.
Thanks for sharing your idea. It's currently possible to view overall course grades in the Dashboard. For steps, check out How do I view grades in the Dashboard as a student? However, that page does not include the student's overall GPA. If you feel that viewing the overall GPA on that page would be helpful, you can modify your idea to just request that page include the student's overall GPA. After that we'll be able to open up the idea for conversation and other Canvas users will be able to kudo and comment on the idea.
Thanks for sharing this idea. As Naomi mentioned, students can access all of their grades directly from the Dashboard by clicking on the View Grades button. Canvas is not able to implement a GPA grade display because many, if not most, schools do not require instructors to post grades for all of their courses in Canvas, so any GPA that displays in Canvas might well be inaccurate. In addition, for the most part schools do not consider Canvas to be the official grades of record; those are typically maintained by the registrar's office and are posted to a school portal that is separate from Canvas.
Similar to the ability for students to input possible grades to see how it would affect their score in a certain course, this would also be very helpful to them regardless of whether the school uses Canvas as the grades of record. Couldn't this be a feature option that schools have the ability to turn on?
@pecchiog Thanks for writing this prompt as a new idea conversation at 📊 Overall GPA - Canvas Community which precisely spells out how the proposed functionality might be able to address the "grades of record" issue. We've moved that one forward for further discussion and have locked comments here to keep feedback and sentiment unified at the new thread.
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