New semester, new gradebook section?

Is there a way to delete last semester's grades in the gradebook without deleting the assignments? Or, is there a way to start fresh with points for this semester without deleting last semester? I do not see options under "Filter" for two semesters.

Thank you!

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Chris_Hofer

@Mrs_Brase ...

My question for you is...why are you wanting to delete last semester's grades? Keeping in mind that I don't know much of the details of your request, I would think you'd want to hold on those grades of your students...especially if a student were to question grades later on after the semester had ended. Or, another case might be if your school had to do some sort of audit of courses and needed to see that kind of data.

Are you wanting to start a new semester with new students...and therefore need a clean gradebook? If that is the case, most schools will just set up a new course shell for you, and you can then copy in content from one course to another...with the new students in the new course shell. But, it almost sounds like you want to re-use the same course shell over and over each semester.

I could be totally wrong on all of this, so if you could please come back to this thread to provide some additional details, I think that would be helpful. Thanks!

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Chris_Hofer

@Mrs_Brase ...

I could be totally wrong on all of this, so if you could please come back to this thread to provide some additional details, I think that would be helpful. Thanks!

Mrs_Brase

Thanks for the reply! I'm sorry for the confusion. I teach an English class that is the whole year, but I'd like for students to be able to have two different grades for each semester. Since I can't find a way to keep last semester's grades and begin fresh, I'm assuming I have to delete the old grades?

I have saved each student's grade and sent a progress report with grades to parents for first semester. I am not concerned about deleting the grades so much as I am about losing the assignment descriptions for next year.

For more clarification, it may help to know that I teach a class of homeschoolers once a week.

Mrs_Brase

Thank you for this helpful reply! Our group uses Canvas Free for Teachers. We have a coordinator who helped to get us set up on Canvas, so I will share your message and see if he can set up different grading periods.

Thanks again!

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