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I want to be able to grade students' class participation during each class. I have tried using the Attendance badges, but it does not automatically change the grade once a badge has been added; it is simply for note-taking purposes. I know that I can change the grade manually, but I would prefer a feature that is linked to Gradebook. Does anyone know of a way that I can grade daily classroom participation? Thanks!

Hello, @bteo10 Welcome to the Canvas Community! Have you considered making daily participation an assignment with a rubric attached to it? You can create a rubric that has a separate row for each day with criteria as straightforward as "Participated" and "Did Not Participate"--or more detailed if you choose--and you can use the SpeedGrader to add points to the assignment each day by clicking the appropriate row in the rubric, so that students' grades for the assignment will cumulatively increase with each day of participation.

Hi Kristin - learning CANVAS has been painful for us on-ground folks, it seems it was built for on-line. That said, it's our CANVAS now. Your class contribution grading suggestion is to create 26 assignments, one for each day of class and grade each student for each class using the rubric. I like that idea but then the grade "book" stretches so long - have you used this approach?

Thank you for sharing this work around. Along with others, I wish that Canvas would create another option similar to the attendance in which we can grade students' participation. Let's please try to vote up a request for this. It was an option available within Moodle.

I have the same issue regarding participation. I wish there was an additional (or same) seating chart to use for participation points, that way you can tap on a student - 1 tap, 1 point. I think this would create good incentive for students to participate since they could see a participation grade "real-time"

Hi Stefanie I replied to the wrong post - learning CANVAS has been painful for us on-ground folks, it seems it was built for on-line. That said, it's our CANVAS now. Your class contribution grading suggestion is to create 26 assignments, one for each day of class and grade each student for each class using the rubric. I like that idea but then the grade "book" stretches so long - have you used this approach?

Sorry if I wasn't clear, @paccioretti_tho ! My suggestion was to create a single assignment called Participation (so no stretched gradebook!) and attach to it a rubric with 26 rows, one for each day. The teacher would then update the grade for the assignment each day, thereby adding the cumulated points day by day to the single assignment. Does it make more sense now?

OK - cut and pasting 3 essay questions for 135 students - doesn't sound like a way I want to go. The file upload idea - does that mean I create an assignment with the three essay questions in a docx. file that the students download, complete and then upload via TurnItIn? OK - not bad, but that said - my speedgrader doesn't work and feedback is - well I don't know how I give feedback. Feeling the instructure folks never taught a class and I've only been teaching for 3 years. Huhrumph.

Hey, Thomas! You do not have to cut and paste each response for each student. You download the analytics and copy the column in the grade book and paste it into Turnitin. The colummn will contain every student's response for that question. For three questions, you would copy three columns. If you randomize the questions on the quiz, it will be a few more than three.

Having said all of that, if it is a proctored environment, I would deliver the multiple choice part of the exam in a quiz, and I would deliver the essay part of the exam as a Canvas assignment and hook the assignment to TII with the LTI. To protect the exam questions, I would not publish the assignment until the time of the exam. Do the essays have to be part of the quiz?

OK - no the time to experiment with the analysis column grade book thingy - I'll look in to that for summer semester, thanks for the idea. As the clock ticks down I'm going to do what I did last time - quiz, with M/C (see I'm learning) and essays questions in the quiz. Just called CANVAS - they do a very nice job with customer service. Nothing new to report on TurnItIn for quizzes - an essay question on a exam - crazy talk they say. ;0 Your suggestions are the best. More badges for you. Cheers.

I have a teacher ( @avargo ) that is looking at doing something very similar for an employability grade in his class, but his question is what to do if a student is absent one day... How would you show that on the Rubric? You don't want to give full points and skew the grade, but you don't want to give them zero points and penalize them for being absent. Any suggestions?

Hey Stefanie, thank you for responding so quickly. I am the teacher Jennifer referred to. Each day students are assessed on what we call employability skills. I have 4 categories that I score a possible 5 points, giving each student a total of 20 points per day / 100 points per week. Originally I thought it would work to create and copy the assignment each day and then I realized that I will have 45 assignments for a quarter class and 90 for a semester which could be overwhelming for students or parents to wade through. Ideally, it would be best to show one grade per week. So, I created a rubric with 20 criteria (4 categories for each day) with the possible 5 points awarded. This was working until I had a student with an excused absence for illness. Correct, I can't give a score if a student is absent but if he / she is sick for 3 days and has a doctor's note, it seems unfair to score them with a 40 / 100 just because they were ill. I noticed a thread about multi-day assignments and added my vote but (in this scenario) it seems that I need to be able to select a 3 day rubric for this particular student.

My thanks to you and to @jcrawford for taking the time to help my think this one through. I love the ability to give my students immediate feedback through a rubric. I was also looking to use this option to help with communication with parents. For students absent, I would send an email to the respective observers communicating about their son / daughters absence and potential make-up work. I hope this clarifies the question / scenario we are wading through.

Thanks Stefanie. @jcrawford and I had the same solution in an earlier meeting. I have deployed this option and have found this to work well. Might look cleaner if / when the multi-day assignment becomes available but at least for now I have a workable option which does give me rubric scoring and real-time comments. Thanks for your help.

@avargo I teach CTE with students doing lots of independent work on various levels and I also grade heavily on Employability Skills. Does this solution using the rubrics still work for you? And does the solution given to deal with the students who are excused absent still work? Thanks!

I have a rubric which has a line for frequency of participation, quality of comments, listening skills, and remote instruction camera use (on). The student is rated in each of these categories with points for zero participation, developing participation (10), proficient (20) and exemplary (30).

I managed to make badges in the attendance log (one for no participation, one for developing, one for proficient and one for exemplary) to match the rubric, and then I see it tallies it up each day so that at the end it says how many times the student got exemplary badge versus no participation badge.

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In 1785, students at Yale were ranked based on "optimi" being the highest rank, followed by second optimi, inferiore (lower), and pejores (worse). At William and Mary, students were ranked as either No. 1, or No. 2, where No. 1 represented students that were first in their class, while No. 2 represented those who were "orderly, correct and attentive." Meanwhile at Harvard, students were graded based on a numerical system from 1-200 (except for math and philosophy where 1-100 was used). Later, shortly after 1883, Harvard used a system of "Classes" where students were either Class I, II, III, IV, or V, with V representing a failing grade. All of these examples show the subjective, arbitrary, and inconsistent nature with which different institutions graded their students, demonstrating the need for a more standardized, albeit equally arbitrary grading system.