Missing Quizzes Need Manual Grading After Term Ends

[shawnski]

My class has 4 Units, and each unit has 4 quizzes (Classic Quizzes) available to students - they just pick one of the four to submit for a grade (I drop the three lowest scores). Many students open each quiz to see which one they want to do. That means many students have unsubmitted quizzes for each unit. After the due date passes, the quiz automatically gets submitted and the students get 0 for each quiz they didn't do. This is how it's supposed to work and it's fine throughout the semester.

The problem comes at term end. When the term ends, for some reason, these quizzes seem to get re-submitted and need grading. The other problem is that I can't just put 0 in the gradebook - Canvas requires me to manually open each quiz and enter 0 for each essay-type question. These quizzes had a 0 all semester until the term ended! Why don't they just keep the 0??

All semester, I've had the setting "Automatically apply grade for missing submissions: 0%" for my gradebook, hence why the quiz gets a 0 when the student doesn't complete it by the due date. These quizzes all allow multiple attempts, but I just changed one of them to not allow multiple attempts, and it didn't affect anything.

I tried "Set Default Grade" to 0 without checking the "Overwrite already-entered grades", but that doesn't work.

What am I doing wrong? This is a serious headache at the end of the semester! I can't just ignore it because I drop the three lowest scores, and nothing can be dropped unless all four assignments have a grade. Right now I have ~70 of these quizzes I need to go in and manually enter 0 to EACH QUESTION! 

Hope this all makes sense. Anyone else ever have this issue?? HELP!

[Gabriel33]

I don't know why that may be happening, hopefully someone else can help with that.

I also don't understand how they get 0 before the end of the term for the quizzes that were automatically submitted, since they'd still need to have the essay questions individually graded.

But until then, here are a couple of ways that could perhaps simplify the regrading:

1. QuizWiz
   A userscript that lets you more easily assign 0 to any unanswered essay questions. You'd still need to go through each student, but you don't have to write a zero on each essay question.
   
   
2. Export and Import grades
   You can try exporting the grades from the gradebook into a CSV file, filling out the missing grades with 0, and then importing that CSV file back to Canvas
   I'm not completely sure that that will work especially as adding the zeros in the gradebook don't work, but if it does it should be easier than going through each question.
   
   
3. Mark the quizzes as "Excused"
   Seems like marking it as late or missing may not work as it still would need to be graded, but excused doesn't require grading.
   This could be combined with the CSV export/import above, to write "excused" (or perhaps EXC, I don't recall) in the quizzes to drop, may be easier than doing it on the gradebook.
   
   

If you have some coding experience, you can also use the Canvas API to do automatically grade (or mark them as excused), but that could be more technically involved.