This is EXTREMELY helpful, thank you so much! I would never have guessed that that's how the grade book worked, just because it's so different from the other 3 LMSs I've used at other univ...

This isn't the solution for me (original poster).

I'm new to Canvas, and I cannot figure out what the orange dot means next to each student's name in the upper-right dropdown menu in Speed Grader. I though it was used to indicate that the stu...

Maybe! I asked multiple ways, including the way I described it in the initial post, and even gave examples. They insist that three assignments worth different amounts of points will all end up being 3...

Hello, Interesting! No, I did not have the assign 0 to all ungraded assignments.

Hello, Interesting! No, I did not have the assign 0 to all ungraded assignments.

This isn't the solution for me (original poster).

I wouldn't even know how to import an assignment. Import from where?

I don't know what an import is. This occurred during my first semester using Canvas, so I didn't import anything from anywhere.

Thank you for the reply! That's what I thought it meant earlier in the semester, but this assignment has me baffled by it. The entire class has orange dots, but the assignment isn't due until ...