One of our instructors has a lot of In class assignments that students submit via Canvas but not show up in the gradebook. He plans on consolidating them into one column in the gradebook and manually add the grades.   

I tried two options:

1. Checked the box for not counting towards final grades - The columns will show in the gradebook with the comment that they are not counted towards the final grades. 
2. Hide the grades from students -  The columns will show in the gradebook with the comment that grades are hidden. Hiding the grades will also affect the total calculations.

Is there a solution for this request? 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.