Capping Grades at 100%

Hi,
we're implementing Canvas right at the moment and have trouble with the lack of an option of capping grades at 100%. I searched the forum and found one or two posts, but I don't find info, if this feature has been implemented or not.
Especially during roll-out we want to ensure, that teachers don't grad exceeding the grading limits.

Thank you for your help!

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Ron_Bowman

@DeletedUser -

As far as I know there is nothing in Canvas that can be used to cap grades at 100%. I am guessing that you are considering the fact that teachers may give extra credit resulting in scores greater than 100%. the only way I know is for teachers to manually cap it that way (If they have extra credit), or to have the maximum score possible in a class at 100%

Ron

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@ron
hi Ron, thanks for your answer!
As we are all new here, could you tellm e more about manually capping or setting the max score to 100%? Or du you have any further reading regarding these topics?
What we've done is setting every single assessment to max 100% as well as setting the total sum to max 100%. Still, 120% etc is possible in Speedgrader. Am I missing sth?
Thank you so much for your help!!

SusanNiemeyer

If an Assignment is worth 20 points.and a Teacher mistakenly types in 200 points, then the Teacher will get a warning message. That message pops up for any score entered that exceeds 100% of the total number of points.

However, there is nothing to prevent a Teacher from giving "extra credit" points. If the Teacher wants to give 25 points, then he or she can simply ignore the warning message.

The best way is to educate your instructors to check the scores and not give extra points. There is no mechanism to prevent them from giving scores over 100%

unknown

thank you @SusanNiemeyer for your help!
Sorry to bother you further, but could you specify in which context the pop-up should show up? I assumed while useing speedgrader, but there's no pop-up for me (attached screenshot). I can give as many points as I want without a warning. Could this be a bug specific to our version?

Sorry for troubeling you. I'm new to Canvas and really try to get into it.
Thanks again!

unknown

Thank you @Ron_Bowman and @SusanNiemeyer , I get now what you mean.

Unfortunately, the pop-up doesn't show up for me. I will bring this up to our devs.
Thank you so much for your help!

unknown

For informational purpose: I found that the Pop-Up works with grading in Points, but not when grading in percentage.

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