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What are those colored flags in the gradebook and how are they to be used?

When I go into the gradebook, some grades for some students have little colored flags next to them. Do I need to pay attention to those?

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Hi @DebraMcIntire,

Happy Friday and I'm happy to help answer this question!

In the Instructor's guide 'How do I use the icons and colors in the Gradebook?', information on colors and specifically the flags I believe you're referring to are discussed.

Colors in the gradebook represent represent the status of an assignment.

Those statuses are:

Blue [1]: Late submission
Red [2]: Missing submission
Green [3]: Resubmitted assignment or quiz
Orange [4]: Dropped grade
Yellow [5]: Excused assignment

Colored flags next to a student's name is your gradebook is likely a 'Turnitin Icon'. More information on these icons is below.

If you create a Turnitin assignment, the Gradebook displays Turnitin score icons in the Gradebook. To view details of the score, click the icon and view more details in SpeedGrader:

Gray icon [1]: Similarity Report has not been generated yet
Color icon [2]: Similarity Report has returned a score; the color is based on the Similarity Report percentage score
A Clock icon indicates the Similarity Report is still being generated
An Exclamation icon indicates there was an error when generating the Similarity Report

I hope this helps and please reply back if our teams can help answer additional questions!

Alicia

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@DebraMcIntire ...

We might need to see a screenshot from you (removing any student names or other identifying information to protect student identity / FERPA). But, I wanted to see if any information in this Guide might be of help to you:

How do I use the icons and colors in the Gradebook... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Looking forward to hearing back from you soon!

Have you enabled Turnitin for these assignments? If so, then these colored flags indicate whether and how much the students have plagiarized.

Hi @DebraMcIntire,

Happy Friday and I'm happy to help answer this question!

In the Instructor's guide 'How do I use the icons and colors in the Gradebook?', information on colors and specifically the flags I believe you're referring to are discussed.

Colors in the gradebook represent represent the status of an assignment.

Those statuses are:

Blue [1]: Late submission
Red [2]: Missing submission
Green [3]: Resubmitted assignment or quiz
Orange [4]: Dropped grade
Yellow [5]: Excused assignment

Colored flags next to a student's name is your gradebook is likely a 'Turnitin Icon'. More information on these icons is below.

If you create a Turnitin assignment, the Gradebook displays Turnitin score icons in the Gradebook. To view details of the score, click the icon and view more details in SpeedGrader:

Gray icon [1]: Similarity Report has not been generated yet
Color icon [2]: Similarity Report has returned a score; the color is based on the Similarity Report percentage score
A Clock icon indicates the Similarity Report is still being generated
An Exclamation icon indicates there was an error when generating the Similarity Report

I hope this helps and please reply back if our teams can help answer additional questions!

Alicia

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