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I agree.  I'm puzzled at how Canvas can be very good at many things, but willfully bad in the gradebook. (I always end up downloading the gradebook to a spreadsheet, hiding the 4x redundant columns so I can use it, and manually entering "override" grades. This deprives students of accurate calculations during the semester, and wastes my time at the end when it is most precious.  To add insult to injury, adding an "override" column requires 2 actions in different places in the right order.  Grading is already a lot of work, why make it needlessly harder?) ... View more

I get "access denied" on the archived proposal, but I completely agree with the comments.  This is the first thing I've found where Canvas is a huge pain and Blackboard was dramatically better.  It's disappointing to find that users have been saying this for over 4 years, and Canvas hasn't listened. I want to be able to create calculated grade entries, like a simple spreadsheet, so the calculations can be live and reflected to students.  In more detail... I want to calculate the midterm and final grades differently, based on what they cover.  (Manually "snapshotting" the midterm grade and then only being able to calculate the final grade is a poor substitute.)  I'd like first-half and second-half subtotals for things like homework, quizzes, and labs, so students can compare their earlier and current performance.  But I'd like the final to be based on the raw assignments, so I don't have to keep track of the precise ratio of points in the two halves. ... View more