Using a Canvas grading scheme is also a necessary step if you plan on using the “sync to SIS” feature for sending final grades to SIS. How it helps you: Establishing your grading scheme in Canvas will make it easier to see at a glance how your students are doing in your class, which is helpful for submitting Navigate progress reports. How it helps students: Setting a grading scheme will give students a better idea of what their overall letter grade in the course is at any point during the semester. An example of a potential grading scheme in Canvas This will tell Canvas what overall letter grade to display in your Canvas gradebook when a student’s overall score falls within a certain percentage range (e.g., AB: < 92% to 89%). Regardless of what scale you use, it is best practice to set up a grading scheme in Canvas that matches what you have in your syllabus. Instructors can generally decide which percentage range to set for each letter grade as long as they use UWGB’s A-AB letter scale however, some departments or programs may have a set grading scale.
When you create your syllabus, one of the pieces that you need to include is a grading scale, or how you plan on correlating grade percentages with letter grades. When students and instructors are on the same page regarding grades, it can alleviate a lot of potential problems and unnecessary stress. In each section we will highlight how these features are beneficial to both you and your students. In this article, however, we’ll be covering some other ways you can incorporate transparency in your course, as well as the features built into Canvas that will allow you to do so. In several CATL resources, we’ve highlighted the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TiLT) framework, which is designed to help instructors clearly communicate the purpose, task, and criteria of a learning activity.
If you’ve been teaching for a while, “transparency” is probably a buzzword you’re accustomed to hearing by now.
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