FAQs on Canvas to Skyward Grade Passback

How does Canvas choose which assignments are passed back to Skyward?

Canvas passes back any assignment, graded discussion, or quiz that includes a check mark in the Post to SIS option. This option determines what assignments are sent to Skyward. The Post to SIS option may already be selected for you; Canvas admins can enable an account-level setting that automatically enables all assignments, but you can still manually remove a check mark from any assignment that you do not want to pass back to Skyward.

Additionally, Canvas assignments are also subject to the following details:

  • Due dates are required to send an assignment to Skyward.

  • Assignments must be assigned for a specific section or for Everyone.

  • Assignment names have a 30 character limit in Skyward.

***SIS stands for Skyward

Please be aware of the following behaviors in the Gradebook:

  • Canvas does not pass back any weighted assignment information. To weight assignments, you must log into Skyward and weight the assignments there.

  • Canvas only passes back assignments in courses and/or sections that contain an SIS ID. These would be courses that start with a P. Therefore, you can not use or crosslist to a Master Course or Sandbox. If you have questions contact your Digital Learning Specialist

  • Excused assignments in the Gradebook are marked as No Count in Skyward. Beta

  • Grade comments are not passed back to Skyward.

***Beta - we are waiting to see how Amaisd Skyward and Canvas interact

Viewing Grades in Skyward

To view grades posted from Canvas, you must refresh Skyward and open the Gradebook.

Grade distribution is a one-way sync from Canvas to Skyward:

  • In Skyward, if you change the name of an assignment that was previously pushed from Canvas, the connection between Skyward and the original Canvas assignment will be preserved.

  • In Skyward, if you change a category name, the category will not be overwritten from Canvas.

  • In Skyward, if you change a grade for an assignment that was previously pushed from Canvas, the grade will not be reflected in the Canvas Gradebook.

  • If you push a Canvas assignment to Skyward and later delete the assignment from Canvas, you have to manually delete the assignment from Skyward.

What do grades look like in Skyward?

Using Varied Point Values

  • If an assignment or quiz is worth less than 100 points, when sent to Skyward it will convert it to weight on a 100 point scale

  • In the teacher gradebook it will up as a raw score, but it will calculate as if it was out of 100

  • The student side shows the percent value and calculates correctly

  • Example:

  • Teacher grades on a rubric worth 25 points and student earns 20/25

  • When the grade passes into Skyward, instead of passing a 20, an 80 goes into the gradebook (the raw value of 20 will still show up in teacher side, but it is calculating the score as an 80)


Marking Items Excused

  • If an item is marked as EX in Canvas, it shows up in Skyward as No Count (the star will still be in the Skyward Gradebook, but if you click on the assignment in Skyward, you will see the No Count box has been checked) Beta


Official Averages

  • Official averages are in Skyward

  • The two gradebooks calculate differently- the averages will not match

  • You should have turned off grade totals in Canvas for students, but you will still see it as a teacher.

  • Students/teachers need to look at the final averages in Skyward