Canvas Grade Book

[BStutzman]

I am wondering if districts use the Canvas grade book as their main grade book or do you have another product such as Skyward.  If you have two grade books I am curious about the following:

Do teachers rely on grade pass back from Canvas to the other grade book or do they have to double enter scores?

Which grade book do parents and students rely on for information?

Do teachers keep the grade button open in their courses for students and parents?

How do you communicate to students and parents the difference between the two grade books?

Do you have standard practices that you ask of all teachers within the two grade books?  If so, what are they?

Thanks for your insights!

[ysmalls]

Hi  @BStutzman ,

Some teachers use the grade book within Canvas and others don't,  I don't see us ever keeping the grade book within Canvas as our main grade book.  We have eSchool and teachers use eTAC as their primary Grade book.

We don't have grade pass back currently so teachers export grades from Canvas and import to eTAC.

We make it a point to tell teachers, students and parents that they can see grades in Canvas but that it's not a true picture of the students grade.  We have a different in house program that parents are instructed to rely on.

Some teachers keep the grade button and others don't, again depends on the teacher.

Some teachers have a "Parent Info" page with all this information on it, some will let the parents know during parent/teacher conference and some will send out an Announcement with that information.  Almost all teachers have Announcements button available so that students and parents can always look over all Announcements.

We don't but each campus administration might have their own standard practices, mostly it's a template that all teachers need to import to their own course and update with their information.  The high school have a list of minimum requirement like they must have at least 5 assignments, two announcements, the bell schedule, use events on calendar and stuff like that but this varies school to school.

Hope this helps you.