Gradebook - "Statuses"

DrAJP

Greetings,

I need a way to edit the text on one of the "Statuses" in the grade book. We can edit the color, but not the text. I need one to say "Extension." Is there a way to do this with external code, or is this something Canvas can enable? Seems like a basic feature that we should be able to edit the specific text, too. 

Thanks,

AJP 

Chris

Hi @DrAJP,

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of a way to have custom statuses in the gradebook.  While it's true that the statuses do have a title and color, there is back-end functionality tied in to those statuses.  For example, the Missing and Late statuses control the application or Missing and Late policies.  Excused tells the gradebook to ignore that assignment when calculating a total grade.

Are you trying to have an Extension status to remind yourself or other teachers that the student was granted an extension, or how would you envision this functioning?  I was thinking about suggesting a grading scheme, where you could essentially tie a letter grade (or perhaps a code) to points, but came to the conclusion that it would make things messy for all of your students and not solve the original problem anyways.

Let us know how you'd like to use this functionality and maybe someone will have suggestions I'm not thinking about.  You could also consider submitting this as an idea for the Instructure team to consider adding to Canvas in the future (but it will not happen overnight(.

-Chris