"Remaster Grade Passback" at Admin Level

[doneng]

Is there a way, as a district Canvas admin to run the remaster grade passback process for all courses at once?

I'd like to do this to get an accurate snapshot in time of the current sync issues, by downloading the sync log from the SIS Integration screen after the remaster process completed.

Possible?

Thanks,

Don

[Hildi_Pardo]

Hi @doneng I don't think this is possible, at least I could not find it in the Canvas Guides. 

But I probably wouldn't want to do that at my district -- I think trying to remaster all at once would be a huge load on the systems and could affect users perhaps on both systems (canvas and sis).   Also, I would be worried that unintentional things could happen by doing a blanket remaster for all.  When remastering, you can still select specific assignments, so what if assignemnts are selected or not selected that should or shouldn't be?  

I like to use my Admin Tools available to me within Canvas, and just scroll through to find any exclamation points: 

• How do I view my institution's Canvas Synergy integration grade sync history?
• How do I view sync details for a Canvas Synergy grade sync as an admin?
• How do I use a grade sync details page as an admin?
• How do I view Canvas Synergy grade sync statistics for my institution?

• Synergy Admin Guides (this is what we use in our district)
• All SIS Guides

[doneng]

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I also had the concern about potential server load issues. I was going to investigate remastering by term or subaccount to break it up a bit if I found out that a blanket remaster was possible.

Using the logs or manually reviewing the red exclamation marks is too whack-a-mole to be a viable solution for me unless I dedicated the time to do this daily. For example, let's say a student's assignment score failed to sync a week ago because the teacher set the assignment to 0 points and our SIS (Synergy) won't accept any score on a 0 point assignment.

The sync process won't try to send that student's score again so I won't get another error for that 0 point assignment unless the teacher enters another score on that 0 point assignment. So a false negative result.

If I download the logs and look for errors in the past 2 weeks to catch more issues, I'll see that error from a week ago, but the teacher may have fixed the issue after the error showed up. A false positive result.

My thinking was that if I ran the remaster grade passback process district-wide I'd have an accurate snapshot of issues at that point in time.

FWIW, someone on the SIS integration team told us they could configure our nightly syncs to be a full remaster instead of a regular sync. We didn't take them up on the offer because we had the same concerns about server load/process timeout issues.

Don