Are you using the NEW GRADEBOOK?

Heartland community,

Are you using the NEW Canvas Gradebook in your course? The New Gradebook will be the only gradebook in January 2020. I know that some of you have been using it and have turned it on for your classes, but the majority of you have not. I wanted to share some information on the New Gradebook so you can start to use it and get comfortable with the changes. There are not too many of those changes, but there are some visible modifications that you will see.

First, turn on the New Gradebook! You can do this from the SETTINGS menu in your Canvas course and then select FEATURE OPTIONS. From there, scroll down towards the middle of the options and select NEW GRADEBOOK. This will turn the New Gradebook on for your course. And, yes. You will need to do it for every course if you want to use it. One of the biggest changes is the color coding you will see! If there are late assignments, those are blue and for missing assignments, those are identified with the color red (note that colors can be modified). Another nice feature of the New Gradebook is the ability to EXCUSE assignments, an option we have not had in the past.

One of the modifications that I love is the Accessibility features for keyboard shortcuts!

Accessibility

The New Gradebook includes the following keyboard shortcuts:

• s : Sort the grid on the current active column; applied sorting is by grade (low to high)
• m : Open menu for the active column
• esc : Close the currently active menu
• g : Go to the current assignment's detail page
• c : Open the grade detail tray

When navigating the Gradebook grid, press the escape key before using keyboard shortcuts.

Take a look at this tutorial to learn more and attend a Canvas Grading workshop this week where you can learn more!

~Anna