Clearing Grades from Gradebook

[AshleyColnett]

Is there a way to clear grades from the gradebook?

Each summer, I am using the same modules, but with updated quizzes. Some students are repeat users to the same course.

I completely deleted every student from the People section, but when I re-entered this year's students, Canvas remembered those from last year and now in the gradebook, last year's quizzes are showing as graded, even though students have not done this year's updated ones.

Essentially, I want to clear the grades in the gradebook for my repeat students.

[chriscas]

Hi @AshleyColnett,

I don't know of an easy way you'd be able to do this with a course shell that's reused year after year.  Are you using a paid school/institution instance of Canvas, or the Free for Teacher one?

As a Canvas admin, I think the most common practice is to have a new course shell generated every unique time the course is offered (by term, section, cohort, etc).  It's certainly not the only way to do things, as you are doing something different right now, but if you get a new course shell each time the course is run if eliminates the possibility for the situation you're running in to right now.  In addition, it helps keep records and grades straight each time the student registered, which may be preferred by your school/institution.  If you get a new course shell, it's very easy to import materials from a prior course, so don't worry about having to completely start over or anything.

Do you think this might be a possible workaround for you?  Let us know here.

-Chris

[SusanNiemeyer]

I agree. It's so much easier to create a new course shell. Just import the content from the old course shell, being sure to remove the dates when you import. Then add your students, and you are good to go.