Grades

Publishing an assignment

When "Published" is updated, all enrollments for the course will attempt to fork the repository to their organization if they haven't already forked before.

This is especially useful for in-class assignments. Forking the repository typically happens after someone launches the assignment the first time. In class, if every student is launching for the first time it can create a queue of requests that delay students from starting the project.

Dealing with multiple sections

If the Canvas is cross-listed and has multiple sections, you'll need to do some additional configuration to handle the different due dates for each section.

There isn't a native way for Grades to receive the sections for a particular course.

Previously, we would create one assignment per section and then restrict the assignment in Canvas so only students in that section would be able to see and launch it in Canvas. This approach works, but it is very time consuming to recreate LTI assignments.

Now Grades does have the ability to handle sections. You need to manually create the sections in the app and then register each student to the appropriate section.

Setting up sections only needs to happen once per Canvas. Once setup, you won't need to create separate Canvas assignments for each section, which should save you time.

Creating Sections

From the "Edit Resource" page, click the highlighted name of the course at the top

This should take you to the course page.

Here, you can create sections by name:

It's recommended to use the Canvas section name (like 20550-81) as the name here as opposed to something like "Monday section".

After you create a section, you'll be able to register students to the section:

Once you've finished adding sections and registering students, navigate back to the "Edit Resource" page.

For each assignment, you can use a section to group students and assign due dates.

Under the "Assignment Groups" heading you can now select a due date for a particular section.

All enrollments will use their assignment groups due date, unless they've been granted an individual due date.