Students with identical names in the same class

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rtw13
Community Novice

In two of my classes, I have two students with identical names.  I cannot find anything in Canvas that will allow me to display the students' email addresses or their avatar in the gradebook.  It is therefore impossible to tell them apart and I have to compare scores, etc. to try to determine which student is which.

How do I distinguish between these two sets of two students in two classes?  I cannot believe that this problem has never come up in the past.

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ElizabethWI
Community Contributor

Hi Robert,

You can go to Grades and at the top of the list, next to Student Name, you can click on the three dots and have the option to see secondary ID:

second

I don't know if that helps for any sort of manual grading, but there should be a way for you to at least see if grades were assigned correctly.

Cheers,

Elizabeth Oseid

UW Madison

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