Grades Feature Interactions: Posting, Hiding, Late Policy

tengrrl

I'm looking for an understanding of the way that Hide/Post Grades, a Late Policy that automatically assigns grades, and the Manual/Automatic Post Grades functions interact.

These three features ALWAYS, ALWAYS comes back to bite me. I wish I had a table or the pseudocode or something that made things all clear. I have assignments set to Incomplete if they're late. I've tried various settings for the other two (hide/post and manual/automatic).

All I want is the ability to add feedback on a batch of projects WITHOUT getting student questions about that feedback before I finish responding to everyone. Otherwise I'm trying to answer all these questions and not getting to feedback on the remaining projects. Ugh. What am I doing wrong? 

Can anyone help me?

Chris_Hofer

Good morning, @tengrrl ...

It sounds like you'd want to take advantage of grade posting policies in your Gradebook.  That way, you can hide grades from your students, do all of your grading, and then release the grades when you are ready.  There are a handful of Guides here in the Community that will help with this...and this first one even has a nice graphic that might help you:

• How do I use posting policies in a course?
• How do I select a grade posting policy for a course in the Gradebook?
• How do I select a grade posting policy for an assignment in the Gradebook?
• How do I post grades for an assignment in the Gradebook?
• How do I hide grades that were previously posted in the Gradebook?
• How do I apply a Missing Submission policy in the Gradebook?
• How do I apply a Late Submission policy in the Gradebook?

Please let Community members know if we can be of further help...thanks!