PowerSchool and Canvas

How do I automate course grade sync from Canvas to my PowerSchool gradebook?

As an instructor, you can enable an automatic nightly grade sync from your Canvas gradebook to your PowerSchool gradebook. After you enable a nightly grade sync for a course, grade passback occurs automatically every night for all assignments that are set up to sync to SIS.

Notes:

The nightly sync option must be enabled for your institution by your Customer Success Manager (CSM). If the nightly sync option is unavailable, contact your institution's admin.
Before scheduling a nightly grade sync, verify that your Canvas assignment groups match your SIS grading categories, and that you have set up assignments for SIS sync.
After setting up nightly grade sync for a course, you can still manually sync grades at any time. Learn more about grade sync for PowerSchool.
Syncing grades from Canvas to your SIS is called Grade Passback, or GPB. Learn more about OneRoster Grade Passback.

Open Grade Sync

In Course Navigation, click the Grade Sync link.

Open Grade Sync Utilities

In the Grade Sync page, click the Utilities tab.

Enable Nightly Sync

In Grade Sync Utilities, click the Nightly Sync toggle button.

Note: The nightly sync option must be enabled for your institution by your CSM. If you do not see the Nightly Sync toggle button, contact your institution's admin.

View Nightly Grade Sync Time

To view the time of the next nightly sync, click the History tab [1].

The nightly grade sync time displays [2].

Note: The nightly grade sync time is set by your institution's admin and CSM.

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