[ARCHIVED] Students with identical names in the same class

[rtw13]

In two of my classes, I have two students with identical names.  I cannot find anything in Canvas that will allow me to display the students' email addresses or their avatar in the gradebook.  It is therefore impossible to tell them apart and I have to compare scores, etc. to try to determine which student is which.

How do I distinguish between these two sets of two students in two classes?  I cannot believe that this problem has never come up in the past.

[ElizabethWI · Accepted solution]

Hi Robert,

You can go to Grades and at the top of the list, next to Student Name, you can click on the three dots and have the option to see secondary ID:

I don't know if that helps for any sort of manual grading, but there should be a way for you to at least see if grades were assigned correctly.

Cheers,

Elizabeth Oseid

UW Madison

[rtw13]

Elizabeth,

PERFECT! Thank you so much. Instead of looking through the Canvas Guides, I should have simply poked around the gradebook. Now that the problem is resolved, I must confess that the solution was more intuitive than I anticipated.

I appreciate your help. Thanks.

Robert Wolfe

Corporate Communication Program Coordinator

Instructor in Business and Economics

Penn State Lehigh Valley

E-mail: rtw13@psu.edu

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[ElizabethWI]

Yeah, Canvas can be annoying at times. I launched a new compliance course yesterday, and somehow two pages had the Mastery Path box checked, so I had a storm of emails because the course was not accessible! Don’t know how the box got checked.

Elizabeth Oseid

Health Physicist

Office of Radiation Safety

Environment, Health & Safety

30 East Campus Mall

Madison, WI 53715

608-219-2495

Elizabeth.Oseid@wisc.edu

www.ehs.wisc.edu/radsafe