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Assigning extra credit may take some getting use to because there is no place within the assignments settings that you check to make the assignment worth extra credit. Yet, because of this, Canvas gives a lot of flexibility in how extra credit can be given to students.

Ways to Add Extra Credit

  • Create A New Assignment Using Assignment with No Submission
  • Using a Rubric

For specific information on how to add extra credit using the above methods, see the following Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I give my students extra credit?

*Note – You can add extra credit manually by downloading/exporting your Gradebook to Excel. This will be down in the Grade Override Column and to be completed at the end of the course, when entering final grades.

Keeping that in mind, the biggest determinant of how you set up your extra credit in Canvas is whether you are using a points-based gradebook or a weighted gradebook. A Points-Based Gradebook allows for the most flexibility in offering extra credit. The tabs above include ways to add extra credit for Point-Based Gradebooks.

Note: Adding extra credit to a Percentage-Based Gradebook does not work that well in Canvas. In general the best way to add extra credit to a percentage based gradebook is to NOT ADD EXTRA CREDIT UNTIL AFTER ALL OTHER COURSE GRADES ARE ENTERED INTO THE GRADEBOOK (including the final exam). Extra credit WILL NOT calculate correctly until ALL OTHER COURSE GRADES ARE ENTERED. This is because by adding the extra credit the gradebook is going over the normal 100%. You can add extra credit by adding an Assignment Group (category) for “extra credit” and make it worth the percent you would like the overall course grade to be raised if students get the full amount of extra credit.

Navigate to your course Assignments Page, and add a new assignment worth zero points. Make sure that the submission type is either “no submission” or “paper submission,” and click Save & Publish to create a column for this extra credit “assignment” in your Gradebook. If you are using a point structure and do not have weighted assignment groups, follow these steps.

  • Click Assignments in the course navigation
  • Click +Assignment
  • Type the Assignment Name (for example, Extra Credit)
  • Type 0 for Points
  • Choose No Submission for the Submission Type
  • Click Update Assignment
  • Click Publish

After students complete the work, manually add points in the Gradebook.

  • Click Grades in the course navigation
  • Navigate to the new assignment (Extra Credit)
  • Type the points for those students receiving extra credit

Adding extra points to an Assignment you’ve already created you will need to manually enter the extra points in the Gradebook.

In this example, the assignment is worth 40 points. Adding 5 extra points will bring the assignment total for this student to 45 points. The added points will increase total points calculated in the Gradebook’s final grade.

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You can use Fudge Points to add extra points to a quiz. Fudge points allow you to manually add or remove points from a student’s overall quiz score.

  • Click Quizzes in Course Navigation
  • Click on the quiz you want to add extra points to
  • Click SpeedGrader
  • In the Student drop-down menu, select the name of the student that you want to give extra points to
  • Enter the number of points you want to add to the overall quiz score in the Fudge Points field at the bottom. The Final Score shows the final score this student will receive.
  • Click Update Scores to save the change to the student’s quiz score.

*Note – Fudge Points can only be added to Quizzes.

If you use a rubric to grade an assignment, you could make an additional criterion to the rubric for extra credit. Make sure the rubric is worth more points than the assignment so when you give students extra points it doesn’t affect the actual assignment points. For additional information on creating a rubric, please check out the Canvas Guides

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Assigning Extra Credit in Canvas

There may be times when you’d like to offer extra credit to your students. While there is no explicit “extra credit” option available in Canvas, this How-To outlines a few options for giving extra credit points.

The three options here will serve a majority of need cases. If you have a more complex extra credit need (for example in classes with both undergraduate and graduate students or on quizzes) please contact Canvas Support as outlined below.

Option 1: Adding Points to an Existing Assignment

When giving points to students on graded assignments in the Gradebook, you can add the extra credit points directly to their score.

Locate the assignment in the Gradebook, click on the score area for the student you want to give extra credit to and update the score points.

In the example at right, the student has been awarded 2 extra credit points for a final score of 7 out of 5.

NOTE: this option will not work for assigning extra credit on Quizzes. Please contact Canvas Support for assistance with extra credit on quizzes.

Canvas gradebook assigning extra credit points

Option 2: Create an Extra Credit Assignment

This option works well if you are using a point structure and not using  weighted grades.

  • Create an assignment called “Extra Credit” [1]
  • Assign a point value of Zero [2]
  • Make the submission type No submission [3]
  • You do not need to set a Due or Until date

At the end of the term, manually assign points to students for this "assignment" in the Gradebook.

Adding points manually to the Canvas gradebook for an extra credit assignment

Option 3: Weighted Assignment Group

This option works best in courses that are using a weighted Gradebook. Create an Assignment Group named "Extra Credit."

Adding an assignment group in Canvas

Assign the weight for this group making sure that the overall grade percentage goes over 100%.

Assignment Groups Weight showing 105% total

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One of the most common questions we get each semester is about how to set up extra credit in Canvas. There are multiple ways to do so, but we’ll go over the two most common methods in this blog post.

Create an extra credit assignment using weighted assignment groups

The first method for setting up an extra credit assignment is to add an extra credit weighted assignment group containing only the extra credit assignment. For example, let’s say you add an Extra Credit assignment group worth 3%. Your grading breakdown may look something like the following:

Since all the assignment groups total to 100% before the extra credit group is added, the addition of the extra credit group means that each student now has an opportunity to earn up to an additional 3% on top of their final grade. It also means that no student will be penalized for not completing the extra credit assignment, since everyone still has an opportunity to earn a full 100% over the course of the semester by completing all the other assignments.

You can only use this method if you already use weighted assignment groups.

Create an extra credit assignment with zero point value

The other method is to add an extra credit assignment worth 0 points, but then grade it out of a predetermined, non-zero point value (and let students know ahead of time how you’ll be grading the assignment). You can use this method regardless of if your assignment groups are weighted or unweighted. 

Screenshot of an extra credit assignment worth 0 points in a "reading responses" assignment group

The weight of the extra credit assignment depends on whether you use weighted assignment groups or not, and how many points your other assignments are worth. We’ll go over a couple examples that show how you can calculate the weight of the extra credit assignment.

Example 1: weighted assignment groups

For this example, let’s say that you want to add an extra credit discussion, and your Discussions assignment group is weighted at 20%. You have 10 discussions in the group already, worth 10 points each. Remember, the extra credit assignment you add as the 11th discussion to the group will be worth 0 points, but graded out of a non-zero point value. In this example we’ll say that the discussion will be worth 0 points but graded out of 10 points.

The discussion group still is worth a total of 100 points, but students can now earn a maximum of 110 points. This means that the total maximum credit a student can earn for the discussions group weighted at 20% is (110/100)*20% = 22% contributed towards their final grade. Since the pre-extra credit maximum percentage possible for discussions was 20%, and now students can earn up to 22%, in effect the extra credit assignment is worth 2% of final grades (in other words, each student now has an opportunity to earn up to an additional 2% on top of their final grade by completing the extra credit discussion).

Example 2: unweighted assignment groups

This example involves a grading set up that uses a lump sum of point values to calculate final grades, rather than using weighted assignment groups. Let’s say the point value for all assignments in the course is 200 points, which means student’s final grades are calculated by taking the total points earned for all assignments divided by 200 points possible. You add an extra credit assignment worth 0 points, but it will be graded out of 10 points, meaning a student can now earn a maximum of 210 points out of 200. A student earning the maximum number of points would have a final grade of 210/200 = 105%, which means that by completing the extra credit assignment, a student can earn up to an additional 5% on top of their final grade.

Grading students who do not complete the extra credit

Regardless of which of the two methods you may use, when grading the  extra credit assignment it’s best to excuse students who do not complete the assignment rather than give a zero. 

Screenshot of the gradebook showing "Excused" for students who did not complete the extra credit

Giving those students a zero will not penalize them since the opportunity for each student to earn a full 100% for the course is still there, but note that if a zero for the extra credit is applied before all other assignments are graded, the zero will artificially deflate grades (giving the appearance that students are being penalized for not completing the extra credit). This happens because any yet-to-be-graded assignments are ignored by Canvas in final grade calculation. Therefore, the best way to avoid this is to mark students as “Excused” rather than giving a zero. Any student who is marked as “Excused” for an assignment will have that assignment excluded from their final grade calculation.

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Extra credit refers to points that are not required. They benefit the students who complete them but do not hurt the students who do not complete them. There are a number of ways of adding extra credit to student grades in Canvas. Option 1.  Extra credit on existing assignments. This is a very easy way to grant extra credit. If an assignment is worth 10 points and you want to give an extra credit point, you can simply enter 11 points for the students who earned the extra credit. Option 2.  Create an extra credit assignments. Create an assignment worth 0 points. Enter the students earned extra credit as the score. As the denominator is 0, any points will be extra. Option 3:  Extra credit weighted category. If you are using weighted categories, you can add an extra credit category and set it to be worth x% of the course grade. This will display your course as out of (100% + x%) 10x%. Then add extra credit assignments, worth points and enter the students earned points. If a student does not earn points for an assignment, be sure to enter that as 0.     Caveat – set the extra credit category to be worth 0% until there are graded assignments in all of the other categories. If you do not have graded assignments in the other categories then this category will act like part of the regular grade and will negatively affect the grades of students who have not completed it.

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Three Ways to do extra credit

There are several approaches instructors can adopt to can give students extra credit in Canvas using Assignments:

  • awarding extra points for an existing Assignment– or for a Discussion or a Quiz
  • creating an Assignment worth zero points
  • providing extra credit using weighted assignment groups

Award extra points to graded items

First, you can always add extra points to graded items such as Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes in the Canvas grade book. You can do this by typing new values directly into the cells while you are looking at the overview of the grade book. For Quizzes only, you can use the Fudge Points  feature in the SpeedGrader as an alternative. Be sure to click the button to update grades when issuing fudge points for a Quiz.

Assignments worth zero points

Instructors can create new assignments with zero points possible. After students complete the extra credit work, these Assignments should be graded and points should be awarded– even though the Assignment itself should stay set at 0 points.

The Assignment has to be set to zero points so that students who opt out of doing extra credit aren’t penalized. The grade book automatically totals the points from all graded, published items in the course – so if the Assignment did have points, all students’ overall grades as calculated by Canvas would be impacted.

Weighted Assignment Groups

Assignment Groups provide a means for organizing and working with multiple Assignments. Not only can instructors use Assignment Groups to weight the final grade , but since the total percentage of all assignment groups can be set above 100%, it’s possible to create an Assignment Group that houses extra credit Assignments.

The Canvas Guides explain the ins and outs of using this approach here

*Thanks to Gabrielle Orsi (Gabrielle.Orsi at lwtech.edu) for her help on this document.

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You can create an online assignment that embeds a document directly from your Microsoft Office 365 (OneDrive) folder. Accepted assignment types are Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Create, Edit, and Remove Tabs| Teach

Create, Edit, and Remove Tabs

Delphinium is organized by theme and function through the use of tabs. These are the steps you can take to customize the tabs.

Creating a Canvas Assignment for Your Video Quiz | Teach

Creating a Canvas Assignment for Your Video Quiz

You can create a Canvas assignment for a video quiz that you created through My Media. You will need to do this if you would like it to be added to the gradebook.

Creating a Syllabus Using DesignPLUS | Teach

Creating a Syllabus Using DesignPLUS

How to create a Syllabus using DesignPLUS. How to add a theme, edit content blocks, edit icons, add a Canvas Grading Scheme, Add Institutional Policies, and Add Objectives/Outcomes.

Creating a Syllabus in Canvas | Teach

Creating a Syllabus in Canvas

The course syllabus is an agreement between the instructor and his or her students to establish the rules of engagement for the course and what is required of students for them to receive credit for the course.

Customizing Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes in a Canvas Template | Teach

Customizing Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes in a Canvas Template

As you begin to add your own content to your course, it’s important to keep things organized so your course is easy to update and maintain moving forward.

Customizing the Canvas Dashboard | Teach

Customizing the Canvas Dashboard

Customize your Canvas dashboard to easily access the courses you use most frequently.

Delphinium Achievements | Teach

Delphinium Achievements

Delphinium has an Achievement component where students can earn different badges for completing specific tasks. These badges will then be displayed in the leaderboards where all can see.

Delphinium Box Module Component Advanced Settings | Teach

Delphinium Box Module Component Advanced Settings

The Box Content Map can be customized to better cater to the instructors preferences by organizing the course modules into tabs. Below you will find the instructions on how to create those tabs as well as in-depth explanations which can help you as you tr...

Delphinium Box Module Component | Teach

Delphinium Box Module Component

The Box Content Map is a quick and easy visual layout that displays the entire course content at a glance. You can customize this component to make it easier for your students to navigate the course.

Delphinium Components | Teach

Delphinium Components

In the Delphinium Layout Editor, components are represented by "Component Tiles". Components are grouped into the following categories: Content, Progress, Dashboard, Game Elements, and Description.

Delphinium Grade Scheme | Teach

Delphinium Grade Scheme

If you are using 0-based grading, Delphinium will translate the %-based Canvas grading scheme into a point-based grading scheme.

Delphinium Grade Tracker Component | Teach

Delphinium Grade Tracker Component

The Grade Tracker component displays a student's current progress in earning points in the course grading scheme. Points are earned by completing course assignments.

Delphinium Layout Customization | Teach

Delphinium Layout Customization

After you choose a template that you would like to work with, Delphinium allows you to do additional customizations to the layout and interface. How to add components, remove components, and create columns.

Discussion Post with Embedded Video in Canvas | Teach

Discussion Post with Embedded Video in Canvas

How to post or embed a webcam recording as a discussion reply in a Canvas discussion board.

Download Class Email Roster | Teach

Download Class Email Roster

You can download a report in New Analytics that contains your class email roster, which allows you to email your students before or after the semester.

Download a Video in My Media | Teach

Download a Video in My Media

You can download a recording from the Media Gallery in a Canvas course. The first step is to make sure that the video has been enabled for downloading.

Duplicate a Canvas Classic Quiz | Teach

Duplicate a Canvas Classic Quiz

Duplicating a quiz is a good way to make modifications to an existing quiz while maintaining the original within the same course.

Early Course Access for Students in Canvas | Teach

Early Course Access for Students in Canvas

An explanation of settings in a Canvas course to allow students access to designated content before the start date of the semester.

Editing Component Contents| Teach

Editing Component Contents

Delphinium provides many components that instructors can include on their page to make their course more interactive. This is how to edit those components to best suit each instructor's preferences.

Embed Editable Google Item in Canvas | Teach

Embed Editable Google Item in Canvas

You may embed an editable Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide into your Canvas course where your students can interact with and update the item according to your instructions.

Embed a Video in Canvas | Teach

Embed a Video in Canvas

No matter where you are embedding a video, whether for a Discussion, Announcement, Page, or Assignment, the best way to embed a video in your Canvas course is through your My Media repository.

Embed a Video in a Canvas Announcement | Teach

Embed a Video in a Canvas Announcement

Step-by-step guide on how to embed a video recording into an announcement in your Canvas course.

Embed a Video in a Canvas Page | Teach

Embed a Video in a Canvas Page

To embed a video recording in a Canvas course page, follow these instructions.

Embedding Images to Canvas | Teach

Embedding Images to Canvas

Instructions for embedding an image from your computer onto a Canvas page with written steps and a video tutorial.

Enable Delphinium | Teach

Enable Delphinium

Enable Delphinium as a tool within your Canvas course on the navigation settings.

Enable a Canvas Grading Scheme | Teach

Enable a Canvas Grading Scheme

If you want to see a letter grade on the Grades page, or if you want to submit grades directly from Canvas to Banner you need to enable the course grading scheme.

Extend Quiz Date for Students in Canvas | Teach

Extend Quiz Date for Students in Canvas

How to extend a due date for students in your Canvas course, whether it is for a singular student or multiple students.

Extra Credit for Individual Quiz Questions | Teach

Extra Credit for Individual Quiz Questions

Canvas doesn't allow extra credit questions by default, but you can use this work around to achieve the desired result.

Find, Add, or Remove Courses in Canvas | Teach

Find, Add, or Remove Courses in Canvas

How to add or remove courses from Canvas dashboard and course list. Additionally, how to find previously taught courses or troubleshooting why courses aren't appearing in Courses tab.

Five Keys to Grading in Canvas | Teach

Five Keys to Grading in Canvas

The methods for addressing potential grading issues when using the Canvas grade book.

Flip in Canvas (Formerly FlipGrid) | Teach

Flip in Canvas (Formerly FlipGrid)

Flip is a video discussion platform that makes teaching and learning more personal, fun, and engaging. This page goes over how to set up Flip in Canvas and how to create a Flip assignment.

Frequently Asked Questions and Common Mistakes in Canvas | Teach

Frequently Asked Questions and Common Mistakes in Canvas

The most common questions asked and mistakes made by USU instructors when they use Canvas for the first time.

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Full Design Tools User Guide in Canvas

USU Design Tools are some tools within Canvas that allow you to quickly build and style a course in Canvas.

General Canvas Gradebook Help | Teach

General Canvas Gradebook Help

How to adjust and navigate through the major features in the Canvas grade book.

General Education Outcomes - Quiz with Question Bank | Teach

General Education Outcomes - Quiz with Question Bank

If you teach a general education course, you have likely been asked to assess whether students are meeting specific outcomes. Canvas can make the reporting of those outcomes easier. There are two ways to measure the outcomes.

General Education Outcomes—Assignment with Rubric | Teach

General Education Outcomes—Assignment with Rubric

Instructions to attach a rubric to an assignment for assessing general education outcomes in general education courses.

Getting Started with DesignPLUS in Canvas | Teach

Getting Started with DesignPLUS in Canvas

How to switch between Design Tools and Design PLUS and how to switch back. Options in Design Plus, including Edit Current Element, Add New Elements, Accessibility/Usability, User Guides/Tutorials, and More Options.

Giving Students Time Extensions with New Quizzes | Teach

Giving Students Time Extensions with New Quizzes

How to allow students extra time when taking quizzes or exams using the New Quizzes feature in Canvas.

Grade Posting Policy vs. Hide Grades | Teach

Grade Posting Policy vs. Hide Grades

The grade posting policy determines whether grades that are yet to be entered will be shown to students. The Hide Grades feature will hide grades that have already been entered, while new grades will still show.

Graded Discussions in Canvas | Teach

Graded Discussions in Canvas

How to analyze and review graded discussions in Canvas for all of your courses at Utah State University.

Grading Assignments in Canvas | Teach

Grading Assignments in Canvas

The Assignments page is arguably the most central to Canvas’s operation. In this page you'll learn of the various features that are associated with grading an assignment in Canvas.

Grading and Syncing with iClicker Cloud | Teach

Grading and Syncing with iClicker Cloud

In order to enable grading and syncing with iClicker Cloud, you'll need to follow the instructions below.

Group Discussions in Canvas | Teach

Group Discussions in Canvas

How to get your students to participate in group discussions on Canvas and how you can effectively review and grade your students.

How to Grade a Hypothesis Assignment in Canvas | Teach

How to Grade a Hypothesis Assignment in Canvas

How to grade Hypothesis annotation assignments using the Canvas SpeedGrader.

How to Grade a New Quiz | Teach

How to Grade a New Quiz

How teachers can grade quizzes that were created with the Canvas New Quizzes feature.

How to Integrate Zoom into Canvas | Teach

How to Integrate Zoom into Canvas

How to integrate and activate the Zoom tool into your Canvas course side navigation.

How to Log Into Canvas | Teach

How to Log Into Canvas

All USU students, faculty, and staff have access to Canvas and can log on to Canvas at canvas.usu.edu.

How to Simplify Your Navigation in Canvas | Teach

How to Simplify Your Navigation in Canvas

Walkthrough on how to simplify your Canvas course navigation to be more user-friendly and enhance the overall student experience.

How to Use Canvas Course Templates | Teach

How to Use Canvas Course Templates

CIDI has developed two templates to help you organize your course materials and provide a consistent experience for students across USU.

Hypothesis: Canvas Annotation Assignment Tool | Teach

Hypothesis: Canvas Annotation Assignment Tool

Hypothesis is a Canvas integrated tool that allows you to collaborate and annotate most online sources.

Import Content from Another Canvas Course | Teach

Import Content from Another Canvas Course

Getting ready for the new semester and have content from this semester you'd like to reuse? Great! You can import content from another Canvas course.

Import a Quiz from Another Canvas Course | Teach

Import a Quiz from Another Canvas Course

You can import specific content from one Canvas course to another, if you are a Teacher, TA, or Course Designer of both courses.

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Importing Content into Canvas On-Demand Workshop

This on-demand workshop walks you through how to properly import content from one Canvas course into another and what things you need to review and consider before beginning your course for the semester.

Importing Grades Into Canvas Using a Spreadsheet | Teach

Importing Grades Into Canvas Using a Spreadsheet

Sometimes grades are collected using another source, such as i>clicker, scantron tests, and publisher websites. Or you may just prefer to organize your grades on a spreadsheet.

Layout Coach Setting Descriptions | Teach

Layout Coach Setting Descriptions

Within Delphinium the Layout Coach will walk you through all of these settings. This page serves as a reference to be able to see descriptions of all settings at once.

Make Feedback Unavailable to Students Until Grading is Complete in Canvas | Teach

Make Feedback Unavailable to Students Until Grading is Complete in Canvas

The instructions required to make grades, comments, and annotations unavailable until grading is complete and grades are manually posted.

Manage Question Banks | Teach

Manage Question Banks

Why, when, and how to use question banks in your Utah State University Canvas course quizzes.

Managing Outcomes in Canvas New Quizzes | Teach

Managing Outcomes in Canvas New Quizzes

The steps to manage outcomes with the new system in the New Quizzes tool in Canvas.

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Manually Graded Canvas Quiz Question Types and Risks

Different methods of manually graded Canvas quizzes, how to implement them, and suggestions on managing the complex problems that arise with them.

Mastery Paths in Canvas | Teach

Mastery Paths in Canvas

Mastery Paths allows you to customize learning experiences for students based on performance. You can enable Mastery Paths to automatically assign coursework based on the score achieved for a previous assignment.

Message All Students Within a Grade Range in Canvas | Teach

Message All Students Within a Grade Range in Canvas

New Analytics in Canvas allows you to filter outgoing messages to send to your students that fall within a specific grade range.

Moderate Quiz Option in Canvas | Teach

Moderate Quiz Option in Canvas

How to extend time limit for students and give extra attempts on quizzes and exams through the Canvas Moderate Quiz setting.

New Quizzes Overview | Teach

New Quizzes Overview

An overview of the Canvas New Quizzes tool which provides additional question types and tools that are not available in Classic Quizzes.

Notification Preferences in Canvas | Teach

Notification Preferences in Canvas

Suggestions for setting Canvas notifications to determine how often you will receive alerts about new assignment submissions, submission comments, etc.

Online Essay Exams and Quizzes | Teach

Online Essay Exams and Quizzes

Suggestions for setting up online essay question types in Canvas exams and quizzes for enhanced security.

Open My Media | Teach

Open My Media

The easiest way to open your My Media repository is from your Canvas dashboard.

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Prepare for Final Grading in Canvas

You have successfully used Canvas to grade all the assignments in your class, now you can save some time by submitting your grades directly to Banner.

Print a Canvas Syllabus | Teach

Print a Canvas Syllabus

If you have used the Design Tools or Canvas formatting to prepare your syllabus in Canvas, the easiest way to print a properly formatted syllabus is from the USU Canvas Course Syllabus Tracker.

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Proctored, Automatically Graded & Time-Restricted Canvas Quizzes (most secure)

Curated list of Canvas quiz questions that are automatically graded along with different proctoring options and how to implement them.

Quizzes Overview

Quizzes Overview

An introduction of the various options for quizzing using tools available through Canvas.

Replace the Instructor Photo on Your Home Page | Teach

Replace the Instructor Photo on Your Home Page

Instructions on replacing the instructor photo on your Canvas course home page using design tools.

Restore Deleted Content in Canvas | Teach

Restore Deleted Content in Canvas

Previously saved content can be restored if it gets accidentally deleted. This includes assignments, classic quizzes, pages, etc.

Reusing Your Course in Canvas | Teach

Reusing Your Course in Canvas

If you already taught a course once in Canvas, this page is to help you understand how you can best reuse and refine that course to have a successful time teaching your new incoming students.

Scheduling a Meeting in Zoom | Teach

Scheduling a Meeting in Zoom

How to set up a Zoom meeting within Canvas, outside of Canvas, and how to invite guest speakers.

Share Screen Recording in a Discussion | Teach

Share Screen Recording in a Discussion

How to post or embed a Kaltura screen recording as a discussion reply in a Canvas discussion board.

Share Zoom Link with Class

Share Zoom Link with Class

Share a Zoom link that can be accessed by all students in the class through Canvas.

Student Self Evaluation in Canvas | Teach

Student Self Evaluation in Canvas

The instructions below will show you how to create a self evaluation for your students based on a rubric outline that you have for your assignment.

Student View (Periscope) | Teach

Student View (Periscope)

Periscope view allows the instructor to see what a specific student will see when he logs into Delphinium.

Switch Between Design Tools and DesignPLUS in Canvas | Teach

Switch Between Design Tools and DesignPLUS in Canvas

How to switch between Design Tools and DesignPLUS. Also, how to switch back to Design Tools from DesignPLUS in Canvas.

Syncing Canvas Calendar to Outlook or Google Calendars  | Teach

Syncing Canvas Calendar to Outlook or Google Calendars

How to sync your Canvas Calendar with either your Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar accounts.

Testing Center - Proctoring Accommodations | Teach

Testing Center - Proctoring Accommodations

Make accommodations to allow your student(s) to take an exam or quiz with Proctorio while the rest of your students take the exam or quiz in a testing center. Instructions to make the exam flexible in Canvas with the Moderate This Quiz feature.

TidyUP Canvas Content Cleanup Tool | Teach

TidyUP Canvas Content Cleanup Tool

TidyUP is available in your Canvas course to help you quickly identify and clean up the content in your course.

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Time Restricted and Automatically Graded Canvas Quizzes

Descriptions of the automatically graded questions types associated with a time-restricted and automatically graded quiz.

Transfer Canvas Classic Quiz to New Quizzes | Teach

Transfer Canvas Classic Quiz to New Quizzes

Transferring a classic Canvas quiz into the New Quizzes format to take advantage of new question types.

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Universal Design Resources for Canvas

Dr. John Scott of Blackboard gave the following workshop in fall of 2019 at Utah State University on how to better support diverse online learners as part of the 2019 Ally Road Tour.

Update Active Dates for Modules to Display in Canvas | Teach

Update Active Dates for Modules to Display in Canvas

How to add dates to the module list on your Canvas homepage to highlight and open the most current module.

Update Content Pages in Canvas Templates | Teach

Update Content Pages in Canvas Templates

Instructions for how to update Canvas content pages using the Design Tools. Change the unit, content title, etc in the template using the side bar.

Update Date References in Canvas Module Titles | Teach

Update Date References in Canvas Module Titles

If you have previously typed dates to appear in your module titles in your homepage, you'll want to update them through the Multi Tool.

Update Home Page Module Dates in Design Tools | Teach

Update Home Page Module Dates in Design Tools

How to update the dates for the modules on the home page by using the features on design tools.

Update the Visual Template Home Page | Teach

Update the Visual Template Home Page

The Visual Template comes with a pre-styled homepage containing a general university image and replaceable banner text. Be sure to change the course number and title. Changing the image is optional.

Upgrade Legacy Design Content with DesignPLUS | Teach

Upgrade Legacy Design Content with DesignPLUS

How to upgrade the content designed with the legacy (Design Tools) sidebar to utilize DesignPLUS formatting.

Uploading Files to Canvas | Teach

Uploading Files to Canvas

The basics of adding a file to a Canvas course either in the Files tool or within a module.

Using Any Grading Scenario in Canvas | Teach

Using Any Grading Scenario in Canvas

How to convert your Canvas gradebook to a CSV file to import into Excel to calculate a custom final grade.

View Copyleaks Reports in Canvas as an Instructor | Teach

View Copyleaks Reports in Canvas as an Instructor

How to view a student's Copyleaks report through the SpeedGrader and Grading. How to review the matching sources of a plagiarism detection report using Copyleaks.

View Student A-Numbers on Canvas Grades Page | Teach

View Student A-Numbers on Canvas Grades Page

Canvas allows the option to change which identifying information an instructor sees for a student.

Viewing an Attendance Report in Zoom | Teach

Viewing an Attendance Report in Zoom

Tutorials for generating attendance reports, which are available through the Zoom link in Canvas or through the Zoom website. If the meeting recurrence is set for "no fixed time" you will have to pull the reports from the Zoom website.

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How do I make Extra Credit Assignments in Canvas

There are two methods for creating extra credit in Canvas. The method you should use will depend on how you have organized assignments in your course. If you have weighted assignments, or weighted grades, you’ll create extra credit assignments differently than if you do not have this feature enabled in your course.

If you’re not sure if you’re using weighted grades, go to the Assignments tab of your course.  If you’re using weighted grades, a percentage will be at the top of each assignment group.

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If you’re not using weighted grades, you will not see this percentage icon.

To make extra credit with weighted grades, check out this link: https://learningandteaching.byui.edu/technology/how-do-i-create-an-extra-credit-assignment-in-a-we

If you’re not using weighted grades, check out this link to learn how to create extra credit assignments:

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  1. How do I give extra credit in a course?

    Extra credit is currently not a default option in Canvas. However, you can give students extra credit using a variety of options. Notes: If you are weighing your assignment groups, please pay attention to how weighted groups can affect the Gradebook if assignments are worth zero points.

  2. How to Assign Extra Credit in Canvas

    You can add extra credit by adding an Assignment Group (category) for "extra credit" and make it worth the percent you would like the overall course grade to be raised if students get the full amount of extra credit. Create a New Assignment Navigate to your course Assignments Page, and add a new assignment worth zero points.

  3. How to add an extra credit assignment?

    1 Solution James Community Champion 12-20-2019 09:08 PM @julius_g_mullen No one can give a simple answer to this question without additional information. It depends on how your course is set up.

  4. Assigning Extra Credit in Canvas

    Assigning Extra Credit in Canvas How-to-Guides There may be times when you'd like to offer extra credit to your students. While there is no explicit "extra credit" option available in Canvas, this How-To outlines a few options for giving extra credit points. The three options here will serve a majority of need cases.

  5. Weighting Grades, Giving Extra Credit, and Other Tips on Managing

    Weighting Grades, Giving Extra Credit, and Other Tips on Managing Assignments and Grades in Canvas by Cecilia Lo | Aug 20, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos Canvas provides a fully functional gradebook that can help both instructors and students to keep track of their progress in a course.

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    Adding Extra Credit Assignments in Canvas to Weighted and Unweighted Assignment Groups Curry Mitchell 217 subscribers Subscribe Subscribed L i k e Share 8.1K views 5 years ago A quick...

  7. Setting Up Extra Credit in Canvas

    Canvas One of the most common questions we get each semester is about how to set up extra credit in Canvas. There are multiple ways to do so, but we'll go over the two most common methods in this blog post. Create an extra credit assignment using weighted assignment groups

  8. Extra credit using weighted assignment groups

    If someone has 90% on homework, 60% on exams, and 100% of extra credit, then they have 90*20%+60*50%+100*10%=18+30+10=58% out of a possible 80% which gives them 72.5% for the class. What you want them to see is 90*20%+60*50%=18+30=48% out of 70%, which is 68.6% for the class, or maybe you want 68.6%+10% extra credit = 78.6%.

  9. Extra Credit Assignments

    The answer is YES! There are several methods for adding extra credit in Canvas. To learn more about extra credit in Canvas and the best ways to add it to your course, see the guide below. Click here for a guide to Extra Credit Assignments in Canvas. Click here to view an example of an extra credit assignment in Canvas.

  10. Create an extra credit assignment in Canvas

    Create an extra credit assignment in Canvas. For instructions for creating an extra credit assignment in Canvas, see How do I give extra credit in a course? For more, see How do I calculate extra credit or optional assignments in my Gradebook? This is document bgpj in the Knowledge Base. Last modified on 2021-08-20 16:49:04.

  11. Extra credit in a course

    There are several different ways to award extra credit within Canvas. Choose the method below that you are interested in learning about: Extra credit Assignment. Award extra points to an existing Assignment. Add "Override" column in the Gradebook. Award extra points to a Quiz. Create a Rubric to include extra credit.

  12. Extra Credit Options in Canvas

    Canvas allows instructors to customize extra credit opportunities by adding extra credit to existing assignments, new assignments, and quizzes. Contents 1 Best Practices 2 Let's walk through it together 2.1 Option 1: Add extra credit to existing assignments 2.2 Option 2: Create an Extra Credit Assignment 2.3 Option 3: Add extra credit to quizzes

  13. Give Extra Credit

    1. Make sure that your extra credit Assignment is zero points. 2. Award points in the SpeedGrader. All points awarded are extra credit. 3. Or, award points in the gradebook. All points awarded are extra credit.

  14. Managing Extra Credit in Canvas

    Create an additional assignment group called "Extra Credit." Set the weight percentage of the new extra credit assignment group to be worth the maximum amount of extra credit you want available. For example, if you want 5% possible extra credit in your course, you'd weight this assignment group 5%.

  15. Create an Extra Credit Assignment

    Create an Extra Credit Assignment. Extra credit is currently not a default option in Canvas. However, you can give students extra credit using a variety of options. Below we will discuss how to create an Extra Credit assignment by giving them a point value of 0. We will also discuss how to create extra credit assignments through Assignment Groups.

  16. Giving extra credit in Canvas

    There are a number of ways of adding extra credit to student grades in Canvas. Option 1. Extra credit on existing assignments. This is a very easy way to grant extra credit. If an assignment is worth 10 points and you want to give an extra credit point, you can simply enter 11 points for the students who earned the extra credit. Option 2.

  17. Awarding Extra Credit in Canvas

    Published May 2022. One huge advantage of using Canvas is its ability to calculate final grades. However, extra credit can be difficult to integrate into your existing Canvas grading structure and calculations. Three methods we recommend are listed below, from easiest to more difficult.

  18. Give Extra Credit in Canvas

    To create a standalone extra-credit assignment: Create a new assignment, and in its settings, add 0 in the Points field.; Select your preferred option in the Submission Type drop-down menu.; Assignments set to the No Submission type work best if students will not be required to submit files in Canvas as part of the extra-credit assignment.

  19. PDF Diial Lai Ivai Duai Setting Up Extra Credit in Canvas

    Canvas does not have an oficial way to add extra credit for assignments that are weighted. Instead, Canvas has suggested this alternative way. This requires waiting to apply extra credit to the end of the course once all other assignments have been completed.

  20. Extra Credit in Canvas :: eLearning Faculty

    Extra Credit in Canvas. Date posted: July 19, 2017 Three Ways to do extra credit. There are several approaches instructors can adopt to can give students extra credit in Canvas using Assignments: awarding extra points for an existing Assignment- or for a Discussion or a Quiz; creating an Assignment worth zero points

  21. how to use a quiz as extra credit.

    3 Solutions James_Kocher_UF Community Champion 04-30-2015 07:12 AM The easiest way I can think of is to convert to weighted categories, put everything in one category worth 100%, and then put your EC quiz in its own category worth whatever percentage you want it to be.

  22. Canvas

    In other words, it is a platform for hosting course content, delivering online quizzes, accepting online assignment submissions, disseminating grades and feedback, and more. All USU students, faculty, and staff have access to Canvas and can login to Canvas at canvas.usu.edu. Instructors and TAs needing help with Canvas can call CIDI at (435 ...

  23. BYU-Idaho Learning and Teaching

    There are two methods for creating extra credit in Canvas. The method you should use will depend on how you have organized assignments in your course. If you have weighted assignments, or weighted grades, you'll create extra credit assignments differently than if you do not have this feature enabled in your course.