formative and summative

Per our district, we have to have formative and summative assessments only. Nothing else. I have the SIS check marked to sync from Canvas to Infinite Campus, but I do not see anywhere to tell Canvas if the grade is to go to the formative side of my gradebook or the summative. How and where do I do this? A sync that can't separate the two is kinda useless.

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@jlkyork

If you have Formative and Summative grade categories in Infinite Campus, then you will need to create assignment groups for Formative and Summative in Canvas. Based on the Canvas documentation, the assignment group names must match the category names in Infinite Campus exactly for the sync to work properly.

How do I properly name my Canvas assignment groups for Infinite Campus grade passback?

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Chris_Hofer

Good morning, @jlkyork ...

To my knowledge, there is nothing in the UI of Canvas where you can specify if a particular assessment is either "formative" or "summative".

If you wanted, you could suggest this as a Feature Idea here in the Community:

Sorry I don't have better news for you, but I hope this helps to answer your question.

bbennett2

Without more detail on what it actually looks like, I'm going to make some suggestions based on assumptions.

Are "formative" and "summative" categories in your Infinite Campus gradebook? I don't use IC, but you can set up grading categories in Canvas that will then sync to whichever categories you want in your other gradebook.

In general terms, formative work shouldn't count in the student gradebook. You can approach this two ways:

Set up weighted gradebook categories with formative at 0% overall course weight and summative 100% overall.
Exempt formative assignments from the final score (assignment by assignment).

Method 1

In Assignments, click on + Group to create a new assignment group and title it either Formative or Summative. Then, click on the three-dot menu in the top right and select Assignment Groups Weight. This will allow you to set percentage weights for each category respectively. Then, follow your district's guides for how to set up a sync to IC.

Method 2

Create whatever gradebook structure you want but make sure to remove your formative assignments from the final calculated score.

This way, all of your assignments can still go into the book but only the summative tasks, regardless of scoring category, will count for that final grade.

Again, this is working off of several assumptions, but it might get you closer to what you're trying to do without having to wait for a feature option to be selected and implemented.

Code-with-Ski

@jlkyork

How do I properly name my Canvas assignment groups for Infinite Campus grade passback?

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