Non graded assignment

Hi Canvas Community! I am trying to set up an assignment where students will upload their submission but I will not grade it and it will not appear in their gradebook. I essentially just want them to upload their PPTs by a certain date then I will pull them all and display in class.

I tried to do within the assignment with display grade as not graded but then it removes any submission option. How do I allow them to submit to something but it does not appear in their gradebook.

Thanks!

Tessa

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JeffCampbell

A couple of options to consider:

1. Do as you have with it set to Not Graded? While they cannot submit, there is an option to attach a comment. They can attach files to comments, so they can upload the PowerPoint to you that way.

2. Set the grade to Complete/Incomplete, then checkmark the option underneath that says it will not count for the final grade. Leave the points as 0. This way, it will let them attach it as a submission, but have no actual value to the grade. Plus, it will put a blue box at the very top that notifies students it will not count towards the grade. This will still leave it in the Gradebook however, but at least it will not impact the grade. However, it also means you can go into Speedgrader and mark the task as Complete. Students then know you have received it and you can filter for not submitted or Incomplete.

tweidner

Hi Jeff!

Thanks so much - I do have it set to be display as Not Graded and in Canvas' guides it says I should still have submission area access. But I oddly do not.

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We will have over 50 of these submissions - therefore I ideally do not want these assignments in the gradebook.

How do they attach a comment? Is this through speedgrader?

thanks again!

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tweidner

Hi Jeff:

Unfortunately this did not work for me as I have turned it to Not Graded so it will not appear in their grades - so they are unable to leave a comment.

You can see it under assignments but not under grades to leave a comment.

Appreciate your help!

Chris

Hi @tweidner,

I'm not clear from reading this thread if you've tried the #2 suggestion @JeffCampbell provided. That is how I would generally advise our faculty to handle a situation similar to this.

"Set the grade to Complete/Incomplete, then checkmark the option underneath that says it will not count for the final grade. Leave the points as 0. This way, it will let them attach it as a submission, but have no actual value to the grade. Plus, it will put a blue box at the very top that notifies students it will not count towards the grade. This will still leave it in the Gradebook however, but at least it will not impact the grade. However, it also means you can go into Speedgrader and mark the task as Complete. Students then know you have received it and you can filter for not submitted or Incomplete."

-Chris

tweidner

Hi Chris - thanks so much! Unfortunately I do not want it to appear in the gradebook since we have 50 of these it just clutters the gradebook heavily. But thank you greatly for the suggestion!

tweidner

Hi Chris - this should not cause other teachers to be upset. It is mainly because I need the students to upload their PPTs and then I download them prior to class. But I need to make sure everyone does upload their slides.

It is more odd that Canvas Panda says I can do this and it worked before and now suddenly does not.

What you say set up an ungraded assignment that is what I was trying to do but it did not allow for submission. Which was odd.

Appreciate your help!!

Tessa

clpatter

Another option would be to use Classic Quizzes. Create a quiz with one "File Upload" question, and then set the quiz type to "Practice Quiz." A practice quiz won't display in the Gradebook, but students can upload a file to it. It would also be easy to see which students hadn't uploaded yet by visiting the quiz "Moderate" page.

I'm not sure if you can set up something like this in New Quizzes because we don't use New Quizzes yet.

dbrace

Hi @tweidner,

There was a bunch of back-and-forth in this so I am not sure:

if you came up with something that will work for you
if you did, which comment to use the "Accept as Solution" option for

If everything is good to go, would you pick one reply as a solution so that this question is closed out?

If you would still like some advice, please let reply back and let us know.

-Doug

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