This article looks at some of the processes involved with managing and releasing marks and feedback in Canvas.

Gradebook is Canvas’ version of the Grade Centre. Marking and Feedback pages contain links to general guidance about Canvas Gradebook and working with Gradebook.

For courses that require first and second markers to mark independently within Canvas, two inboxes will be used. Each submission inbox will have an associated column within Canvas Gradebook.

Staff will only be able to view and download marks from Canvas Gradebook, if anonymous marking is disabled. Therefore, programme teams may wish to choose a date to disable anonymous marking once initial marking is completed and optionally choose to export grades.

• To remove anonymous marking, simply open the assignment, click Edit assignment, remove the tick from the checkbox ‘Graders cannot view student names’ and Save the changes.
• How do I export grades in the Gradebook.

Uploading Grades:

It is possible to upload grades into Canvas via a CSV file. You can either:

1. Export the Gradebook, to provide a CSV template which grades can be entered into. Or,
2. Create a CSV file which meets Canvas requirements for importing grades.

Uploading Feedback:

The eLearning team are currently working on a process for uploading feedback comments into Canvas. Guidance on the format required for uploading feedback will be made available in due course.

Once grades and feedback have been recorded in Canvas you can export data such as completed rubrics and overall grades.

• How do I download rubric assessments using Enhanced Rubrics?
• How do export grades in the Gradebook?

In Canvas a Grade Positing Policy is used to determine when grades are released within Canvas. By default this should be set to Manually Post Grades. To check this setting enter the Grades area from the Course Navigation Menu and click on the Gradebook Settings cog:

Ensure the Grade Posting Policy is set to Manually Post Grades. This will mean that once marking is completed, you can choose to release the grades all at once, at a specific time.

A manual grade posting policy should be in place, meaning that staff need to take action to ‘post grades’ once ready. If a rubric has been completed in Canvas, posting grades will release the rubric as completed by the marker including the assessors name (see

For step by step instructions on releasing grades see:

• How do I post grades for an assignment in the Gradebook?

Once grades and feedback are posted, students will be able to access them via the Grades menu. Below is a link to a step by step instructions for students on how to view grades via Canvas.

• How do I view my grades in a current course?

Releasing (posting) grades in Canvas is a manual process.  Once grades are posted,  students receive a notification email that their grades are available.

For example, if a rubric has been used for grading within Canvas and grades are ‘posted’ for the submission inbox in Canvas students will be able to access: 

• Score (eg. mark/100).
• Rubric (if used for grading) a copy of the rubric displaying marks and feedback scores and comments as entered by staff in SpeedGrader, together with the ‘assessors name’. 
• Assignment comments any comments entered into the ‘assignment comments’ field in SpeedGrader.
• Total The total score is shown by default, but can be hidden via the course settings screen ahead of releasing grades.  (How do I hide totals in my students’ grade summaries). The total score reflects all assessments in the Canvas space.

In the example below, marks and feedback have been released for the ‘Submission 1 inbox’ (graded by the 1^st marker) and ‘Submission 2’ (graded by the 2^nd marker).  The student would be able to access the marking rubric for each inbox. 

Students would also be able to see the rubric as it has been completed by the marker, for each submission inbox.