Bonus Points - Canvas
- Gianna Goodermuth
Add extra points to an existing assignment in the gradebook
Open your gradebook
Manually add in extra points by clicking in the cell and increase the number.
Canvas directions on creating extra credit assignments
Ungraded assignments in a course not using weighted assignment groups
Create a new assignment, no submission, worth 0 points
This will place an entry in your gradebook
Grade it manually in the gradebook. Because it is worth 0 points any student given points will get a bonus without docking those that didn’t take it.
Canvas directions on creating an extra credit assignment worth 0 points.
Weighted assignment groups
Did you know that Canvas allows you to create assignment groups totaling over 100%?
Making sure you have your existing assignment groups equaling 100%
Create an extra credit assignment group, call it "Extra Credit" worth 100%
Put your bonus assignment into this bonus group make it 100 points.
FSU has a great write up of this technique here.
Quizzes
Bonus quizzes can be particularly thorny. Below are a couple options for using a quiz for bonus points.
Bonus quiz technique 1
Create a quiz as normal, worth x points
Students take the quiz
After all the students who are going to take the quiz take it
Change value of the quiz to 0. Canvas holds onto the points the student received in the gradebook it does replaces the grade with an icon.
Go into the gradebook and click each cell with the paper icon you will see their original grade.
Click "enter" to give them their grade back.
Bonus quiz technique 2
Create a quiz as normal, this places a column in your gradebook. This columns grade is used as a placeholder only, you will delete this quiz later.
Create an ungraded assignment (as described above)
Students take the quiz
Go into the gradebook copy each score from the quiz into the ungraded assignment grade in the gradebook.
Delete the quiz when finished. Other examples can be found here
Other resources and tips on creating bonus points