Reset student grades

TanjaP

Hi,

I have courses where a certificate for that course is valid for a period of 5 years. After that, the student must go over it like it is starting from 0.

I did not find any way of doing it. Please advise.

You can assume that we do not need historical records if it is a problem and the student must use the same login (same user in Canvas). Also, we can use API if it's required.

With regards

James

@TanjaP 

Canvas is all about grade preservation to make sure no information is lost. That is the complete opposite of what you want to do.

There is no way to reset the grades or make a student retake the entire course when they have already completed it. Removing the student and re-enrolling them will reconnect to the existing submissions and grades.

There are two ways I know of that you can make a student start over.

• New Course: You can create a new course and put the students in there. You can copy the content from the previous course. You can also take the opportunity to update any information (maybe the information they learned five years ago needs revised or there is a better way to explain things).
• New Student: You can create a new login and enroll that student into the same course. You may want to remove the previous enrollment from that course so they don't get to see all of the answers.

You can decide which of these works best for you.

We use the first one. We really don't want to create new logins as that is confusing and our other systems are really set up to only handle one ID per student. There are benefits to having fewer enrollments in more courses rather than trying to put everyone into a single course over a long period of time. Canvas is faster responding with fewer enrollments if you ever need to go into the course. If there are dates, those are easier to manage -- although I heard something about Canvas working on rolling enrollments. If it's an automated class with no due dates, then it may not matter. The downside is that if we ever need to look up information, we have to track when students enrolled and go to a specific course, but that information is available in our other systems since that's what put it into Canvas in the first place.