Setting missing Gradescope assignments to zero on Canvas

Question

Hello!

I am on the teaching staff for a course that is using Canvas, but has all assignments linked through Gradescope. Students submit through Gradescope and then the assignment is linked to Canvas so that grades appear on Canvas. I am trying to set all missing assignments (as in, never submitted to Gradescope) as zeros. I tried using the Canvas function in Grades > Settings > Late Policies > Automatically apply grade for missing submissions, setting it to 0, but it does not apply to grades on assignments imported from Gradescope.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks!

TrishaMeyer1 · Accepted Answer

Hi @AndreaSalazar20 ,

As you mention, the grade posting policies (missing and late) do not work with assignments submitted via External Tools. You will have to manually change the missing symbols (the minus sign, usually) to zeros in Canvas unless there is a way to set Gradescope to assign the zeros automatically and then transfer to Canvas that way.