Importing Grades to Banner from Canvas

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How Sending Grades to Banner Works

  • The Gradebook is where grades for individual assignments, quizzes and discussions are posted and managed. Canvas calculates a Total grade for each student based on the grades on individual assignments. To access the Gradebook, select Grades from the Course Navigation Menu.
  • Each student’s Total grade from the last column in the Gradebook auto-populates into the Final field in Sending Grades to Banner. The screenshot provides an example Sending Grades to Banner page (student names redacted). To access, select Sending Grades to Banner from the Course Navigation Menu. 

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  • If there are no manual grade adjustments to make or Student Incompletes to administer, click "Submit" to sync grades to Banner.

Student Incompletes

  • To enter a Student Incomplete, do the following in the Sending Grades to Banner page:
    1. Enter a Final grade of “I,” which is the Banner code for “Incomplete.”
    2. Enter into the Incomplete Final Grade column the grade the student will automatically receive if they do not complete the incomplete by the Extension Date.
    3. Enter an Extension Date of no longer than one (1) year beyond the course end date.
    4. Enter an Extension Date of no longer than one (1) year beyond the course end date.
  • To determine the Last Attended Date based on activity in Canvas, go to New Analytics found in the right-hand side bar on the Home Page. Select the Students tab, and the date in the Last Participation column is considered the student’s last day of attendance

The screenshot provides an example of administering Student Incompletes (student information redacted). Note the Final grade of “I” and the additional required information:

Things to Remember

  • Grades can be changed and re-synced as long as the grading portal in Banner is open. You can make an unlimited number of manual grade changes on the Sending Grades to banner page and resubmit those.
  • Don’t forget to include one of the required fields for a Student Incomplete. If you do not input a Final grade of “I,” the Incomplete (or alternate) Final Grade, Extension Date and/or Last Attended Date, the Grade for that specific student will fail and you will receive an error noting you need to include the omitted information

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