Adding a section and SpeedGrader

[John_Gaspar]

I have an interesting and somewhat annoying situation. 

• I have a first year Business subject with 1700+ students.
• 108 students has been allocated to a marker for an assessment.
• These students are across sections so we created a new section and added the 108 students.
• The subject is live so invitations went out to students but not all have accepted the invitation or visited the Canvas site since then.
• The new section can be filtered in Gradebook and all students are listed.
• However Gradebook has only 83 students those who have accepted the invitation or been back to the Canvas site.

is there a workaround, or a way, to get ALL students to show in SpeedGrader, in a new section?

[paul_fynn]

Hi @John_Gaspar 

Interesting problem - our institutional End to End Assessment solution also generates marker sections, but doesn't depend on students accepting any invitations. If you would like to share more details of how you are currently generating the sections and section enrolments, I'm sure someone in the community will be able to suggest a resolution. 

[John_Gaspar]

Hi @paul_fynn. Most sections are created automatically, based on enrollment and timetable information. Those sections are created before the start of each session and student enrolments, withdrawals, and class changes are updated by our systems in real time.

The section that's causing a problem was created manually (in settings) and populated in People. That part's fine. They show in new section in gradebook but not in Speedgrader.

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @John_Gaspar,

If this manual section creation is officially supported by your school/institution, I'd suggest having an admin use the SIS Import process to enroll the users the next time you need to, rather than manually enrolling from the People tool.  When using the SIS import, users do not need to accept invites, the enrollment just happens.  It's pretty for an admin to create an enrollment CSV file to upload to the SIS Import area of Canvas.  You could also look into doing enrollments via the API, but honestly that's probably way more work with no added benefit compared to using the SIS method.

Hope this helps!

-Chris

[John_Gaspar]

Thanks @chriscas .I agree that getting our IT Admin to add the students would be smoother but it would take a while to get done.

I think my problem happened because it was late in the semester, the teaching period had finished, and students weren't looking at their emails or Canvas notifications. I recommended to the academic that they organise these admin sections earlier.