Hiding and Posting Grades

If you have set your grades to be manually posted, assignment grades are hidden from students until you choose to post them. Hidden grades are indicated with a crossed out eye icon next to the assignment name in the Gradebook. If you would like to turn on this feature, visit the Grade Posting Policy section of our Gradebook Settings guide.

A screenshot of the Canvas Gradebook showing an assignment column titled "All That Jazz (Official Video)" with "Out of 100 MANUAL" listed underneath. A large, dark blue arrow points to a visibility icon—depicted as an eye with a slash through it—located to the left of the assignment title, indicating that grades for this column are hidden from students. Below the header, three rows of sample student scores are visible: 100, 90, and 80.

To access the Canvas Gradebook, visit the desired course, and click on Grades in the left-hand course navigation.

To post grades for an assignment so they are visible to students, hover over the assignment name and click the three vertical dots that appear. In the drop-down menu, select Post grades.

In the Canvas LMS interface, a screenshot shows the expanded options menu for a gradebook column titled "All That Jazz (Official Video)." A dark purple arrow points to the vertical ellipsis (three dots) in the header used to open the menu, while a second dark purple arrow highlights the "Post grades" option. The menu contains several items, including Sort by, SpeedGrader, Message Students Who, Curve Grades, and Set Default Grade. Below "Post grades," the text "All grades hidden" appears in a grayed-out, unclickable format, followed by "Enter Grades as" and "Grade Posting Policy" at the bottom of the list.

The slide-out menu on the right-hand side will indicate how many grades are hidden from students. For instance, if you have graded 16 out of 17 students, it will indicate that 16 grades are hidden. Choose whether to post everyone’s grades or just the graded submissions (if you have graded every student’s assignment, both of these options will post all grades for that assignment). Click the Post button to post the grades. Grades will take a moment to post. For large classes this can take a minute or more to post.

A screenshot of the "Post Grades" sidebar in Canvas for the assignment "All That Jazz (Official Video) - Chicago The Musical." At the top, a red circle with the number 3 is next to the status "Hidden." A dark purple arrow points to the selected "Everyone" radio button, which is described as allowing all students to see their grade and/or submission comments. An unselected "Graded" option is visible below. A "Specific Sections" toggle is shown as inactive. At the bottom, a dark purple arrow points to the "Post" button, located next to a "Close" button.

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