Drop the Lowest Grade

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Automatically Drop a Student’s Lowest Grade

Use Canvas assignment group settings to drop a student’s lowest grade(s) for a group of assignments. Canvas will do the work for you. You can set it and forget it.

Graphic of six boxes representing six different assignments. Each box has a letter grade. Five assignments have grades of A or B. One assignment has a grade of D and this assignment is dropping away from the other assignments.

Guide: How do I create rules for an assignment group?

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