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Set a Default Grade

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Set a Default Grade

Let Canvas do some of your grading for you! Use the default grading tool to assign a default grade to any assignment. Canvas can apply this grade to all students or only to students who have not yet received a grade for the assignment. *

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EXAMPLE: An assignment is past due and all the submissions have been graded. Set a default grade of “0” for the assignment and Canvas will autofill a “0” for anyone that hasn’t turned it in.

 

⚠️ *DO NOT click “Overwrite already-entered grades” when you set the default grade if you do not want Canvas to change the grades you have already entered.

 

Click here for a guide to setting a Default Grade in Canvas.

 


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