How do I view a student's Grades page in a course from the Gradebook?

As an instructor, you can access the Grades page for a student in  your course. This Grades page shows you how a student views his or her  grades in the course and also allows you to add individual comments to  group submission assignments. You can choose to restrict options in the  grades page to students, such as hiding grade summary totals and hiding grade distribution graphs.

You can also view the grades page for a generic student in Student View.

Notes:

  • The student's grades shown in the Grades page may vary from the  grades shown in the Gradebook. The student's Grades page is affected by  hidden assignments, outstanding manually graded quiz questions, weighted  assignment groups, and weighted grading periods. The Gradebook always  contains the most current and accurate information about a student's  current grade.
  • Student Grades can also be viewed from a student's user details page.

1. Open Grades

In Course Navigation, click the Grades link.

2. Access Grades via Context Card

You can view a student's Grades page from the context card.

To view a student's context card, click the name of the student [1]. Then click the Grades button [2].  

3. Access Grades via Grade Detail Tray

You can also access the student's grades page from the Grade Detail Tray. Click the assignment cell for a student and click the Grade Detail Tray icon [1]. Then click the name of the student [2].

4. View Student Grades

In the Grades page, you can see how a student views their grades in  the course. Students can view the name of the assignment [1], the due  date [2], the submission date [3], the assignment status [4], the score  or assignment submission type [5], the total number of points for the  assignment [6], and any comments [7] and rubrics, if any.

If allowed, the student can view distribution score details and  graphs in the assignment scoring details [8]. You will only see scoring  details if more than five other students have submitted that assignment  in the course. If you do not see the scoring details, then fewer than  five students have submitted the assignment. As the instructor, you can hide grade distribution graphs.

Students can also view their assignment group score totals and their  total grade for the course at the bottom of the Grades page [9]. As the  instructor, you can hide total scores.

Notes:

  • The student's grades shown in the Grades page may vary from the  grades shown in the Gradebook. The student's Grades page is affected by  hidden assignments, outstanding manually graded quiz questions, weighted  assignment groups, and weighted grading periods. The Gradebook always  contains the most current and accurate information about a student's  current grade.
  • When your course includes grading periods, the student Grades  sidebar displays assignment groups when an individual grading period is  being viewed. However, groups only display if the groups are active as  part of the selected grading period. An assignment group displays if the  group has at least one assignment due for the student in the selected  grading period.
  • When grading periods are weighted and the All Grading Periods option  is selected, the sidebar displays the weights of each grading period.
  • If an assignment allows multiple attempts, the Submitted column only displays the most recent submission date.

5. View Assignment Details

You can also view assignment details, preview assignments, and  view feedback the same way a student experiences assignments in Canvas.  The assignment details page is also where a student views any annotated  feedback you may add to an assignment.

To view submission details, click the name of the group assignment.

5.1. View Group Assignment Comments

For group assignments, the submission details page may include individual comments added to a group assignment.

By default, group assignments that award the same grade to all group  members do not display any individual comments when grading group  assignments in SpeedGrader. Likewise in SpeedGrader, you cannot add  comments for an individual user in a group assignment.

However, the assignment details page allows you to leave individual  comments for the student in group assignments where all members get the  same grade. To reply to the student (and not all group members), do not  select the Send Comment to the Whole Group checkbox.

Individual comments also appear in the Submission Comments filter in Conversations.