[ARCHIVED] Why are my students seeing N/A (F) in grading details?

[libbee3]

Hi

I teach 7th grade and in remote learning we have moved to a COMPLETE/INCOMPLETE or pass/fail for this 4th quarter quarantine, where nothing is assigned points.  In most of my students' classes they look at their Grades in each course and at the top right it says Total: N/A.  For my class, it says N/A (F) and parents and students alike are freaking out.  Why does my class have an (F) after the N/A?  Our district administrator of Canvas says it is probably because I have an assignment with points associated with it, but I have gone through each assignment.  She also said she noticed that I have had a (F) there much of the year and she doesn't know why and is swamped with tech issues right now.  

Can someone from Canvas or the community advise?

[James]

 @libbee3  

Do you have a course grading scheme attached where the other teachers do not?

Check under Course Settings and then scroll down on the Details tab to Grading Scheme.

[libbee3]

Yes, I just discovered that on my own, unclicked it, and it removed the (F), right before you responded.  Thank you so much.  Can you explain why or what that means?  I have no recollection of clicking that in the first place, but no other teachers in our district have that enabled.

[James]

The grading scheme converts a percentage into a letter grade. For me, A is at least 90%, B is at least 80%, C is at least 70%, D is at least 60% and F is anything below 60%. That makes sense in my case.

In your case, an A, B, C, D, F scheme doesn't make sense, especially since the grade is N/A and Canvas won't be able to compute a percentage based off it to convert it into a letter grade. If you were teaching a pass/fail course where students had to get at least 70% to pass, then you could put in a scheme with two grades: pass and fail. Don't do that because you're not teaching a course that way, it's just an example of what could be done.

If this is a course that you copied from a previous term and reused, it might be that it was selected there. I'm guessing you clicked it at some point as those things rarely change on their own.  Yesterday, I was adamant that I had not changed the course dates on my course, until my wife showed me every other course had different dates than mine. I still don't remember doing it -- it was 6 months ago and the last 2 months have been like 2 years.