Category: Instructor Miscellaneous

Post Grades Manually

November 18, 2025

Control grade visibility by posting grades manually when you are ready.

By default, Canvas courses will post grades automatically, as soon as they are entered in the Grades tab or submitted in SpeedGrader.

You can choose to “mute” grades by changing the Grade Posting Policy. This allows you to grade everyone in the class before “releasing” grades for an individual Assignment. We recommend that this be done before grading begins.
 
You can set the policy at the course level or at the individual Assignment level. Please note that Assignment-level posting policies will override the course-level posting policy.
 
The manual course posting policy is not retroactive. If you select it after grades have been entered, any grades that were already posted will remain visible. If you wish, you can hide grades.
 
Please note that the Hide grades function is different from the Grade Posting Policy. Hide grades should be used sparingly, i.e., to temporarily hide grades posted in error. If you have questions about the Hide grades feature, please contact onlinelearningsupport@ciis.edu.

Set the Policy at the Course Level

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Set the Policy at the Assignment Level

  1. Click Grades from the course navigation menu:Grades tab
  2. Select the settings icon near the top right:
  3. In the window that opens, select the Grade Posting Policy tab, then select Manually Post Grades. Then click Update at the bottom right:Grade Posting Policy tab with radio button that says Manually Post Grades and Update button at the bottom right.
  4. When a manual posting policy has been applied and a grade has been entered, the Assignment header displays a Visibility icon [1]. This indicates that a manual posting policy is in place. You must manually post the grades before they can be viewed by students. Also, if a manual posting policy has been applied to a course, all Assignment headers will display the Manual label [2]. The Total column will also display a Visibility icon [3]. This indicates that the grade in the Grades tab is different from the total grade viewed by the student.Number 1 is the slashed eye icon in an Assignment column header. Number 2 is the word Manual in an Assignment column header. Number 3 is a slashed eye icon in a row of the Total column
  5. When you are ready, post the grades.

Set the policy at the Assignment level

  1. Click Grades from the course navigation menu:Grades tab
  2. Hover over the Assignment column header and click the Options icon, then click Grade Posting Policy:
  3. Select Manually in the tray that opens to the right. Then click Save:
    Radio button next to Manually with a Save button at the bottom right.
  4. When a manual posting policy has been applied and a grade has been entered, the Assignment header displays a Visibility icon [1]. This indicates that a manual posting policy is in place. You must manually post the grades before they can be viewed by students. Also, if a manual posting policy has been applied, the Assignment header will display the Manual label [2]. The Total column will also display a Visibility icon [3]. This indicates that the grade in the Grades tab is different from the total grade viewed by the student.Number 1 is the slashed eye icon in an Assignment column header. Number 2 is the word Manual in an Assignment column header. Number 3 is a slashed eye icon in a row of the Total column
  5. When you are ready, post the grades.

Post the grades

  1. Any Assignment with grades that are not visible will be indicated by the Visibility icon [1]. When you have finished grading everyone, hover over the Assignment column header and click the Options icon [2]. Then select Post Grades [3].
  2. Number 1 is a slashed eye icon within an Assignment column header. Number 2 is the options icon within an Assignment column header. Number 3 is Post Grades.A tray will open to the right. Select to post everyone’s grades, or only those who have received a grade or submission comment. Then select Post:
  3. You will see a success message once grades have been posted:Message that says Success! Grades have been posted to everyone for Assignment 1.

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Colleague Grade Rosters

May 6, 2024

Be sure to add a variable in addition to term or you will get a grade roster for every section in the term.

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Steps to use GROS to obtain section grade rosters.

Add dept. code only for the “Department Incl” line (department name will populate after selecting enter).

CodeDepartment
D.ANTAnthropology & Social Change
D.AOMAcupuncture & Oriental Med
D.APCAsian Phil & Cultures
D.CLNClinical Psychology
D.CMHCommunity Mental Health
D.CPMCP Courses
D.ESREcology, Spirituality & Relig
D.EWPEast West Psychology
D.EXAExpressive Arts Therapy
D.GENGeneral Programs
D.HSXHuman Sexuality
D.IAInterdisciplinary Arts
D.ICPIntegral Counseling Psychology
D.IHLIntegrative Health Studies
D.ISInterdisciplinary Studies
D.ITPIntegral & Transpersonal Psych
D.MPSPsychological Studies
D.NMNon-Matriculated
D.PARPAR Courses
D.PCCPhil, Cosmology, & Conscious
D.PDTDrama Therapy
D.PSYPsychology
D.SOMSomatic Psychology
D.TCMTraditional Chinese Med
D.TITransformative Inquiry
D.WSEWomen’s Spirituality

Online Learning Resources Overview for New Faculty

May 6, 2024

Canvas is the University’s Learning Management System (LMS). Log-in with your university email address and email password here: https://ciis.instructure.com/

Find updated information and resources on Online Learning’s Knowledgebase: CIIS Knowledgebase – Online Learning Support (vclhub.com) (this website).

Access live chat support for virtual course meetings here: www.vclhub.com

Canvas Course Spaces

All academic courses (e.g., face-to-face, blended/hybrid, online) at CIIS have an associated Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) virtual, online course space.

Pandemic response virtual instruction modality format information: Virtualized and Hybrid Courses – CIIS Knowledgebase (vclhub.com)

Enrollment in a Canvas Course Space

A faculty member is enrolled in a Canvas course space(s) once they have been assigned to teach a course(s) in the student information system; a student is enrolled in a Canvas course space(s) once they have successfully registered for their first academic course(s) (no enrollment holds). Enrollment in Canvas course spaces is done by an automated process between the University’s student information system and Canvas that can take up to 24 hours from the time a faculty member is assigned to a course, or from the time a student successfully registers for their first academic course.

Canvas Course Space Access

Canvas course spaces are made accessible to students by faculty. Once made accessible, full course space functionality is available from 14 days prior to the start of a course’s term.

All Canvas course spaces conclude on the day that grades are due for a term and faculty and students maintain access to concluded Canvas course spaces indefinitely in a read-only format (refer to the CIIS academic calendar for specific term dates). The read-only format of concluded courses allows faculty and students to return to a concluded Canvas course space(s) at any time in the future from the CIIS Canvas website (ciis.instructure.com) to download course materials and past assignment submissions.

Special Circumstances (Incompletes)

Students who are granted an incomplete for a course may be provided temporary access to a Canvas course space after it has been concluded only to submit an assignment(s) through the Canvas assignment feature. Email onlinelearningsupport@ciis.edu for information after an incomplete has been granted for a course if the student needs to access Canvas to submit an assignment.

Special Access and Policy

Access to a Canvas course space(s) is guided by FERPA and policies established by the Human Resources, Provost, and Registrar’s offices. All access to Canvas course spaces outside of established policies must originate as a registration record in the University’s student information system or upon

approval of the Human Resources office. This includes any access by auditors, resident scholars, visiting scholars, teaching assistants, accessibility services staff or contractors, guest lecturers, and all other individuals not enrolled in a Canvas course space via the University’s student information system.

Privacy

The CIIS Canvas website is not public and is not in any way searchable externally. All communication (through the Canvas grade feature) between a student and a faculty member is private, as is all content of any submitted assignment (through the Canvas assignment feature).

Grades

The Canvas gradebook is an LMS feature that allows an instructor to provide feedback on an assignment(s) and for a student and instructor to privately communicate about a student’s submitted academic work in Canvas. The Canvas gradebook feature may include letter grades and a final grade for a course(s); however, a student’s official grade for any course (as it appears on the student’s official University transcript) is viewable only on the Self-Service website.

International faculty and students

The CIIS Canvas website, ciis.instructure.com, is expected to be accessible anywhere with an internet connection. If you experience an inability to connect to CIIS Canvas from outside of the United States, please email onlinelearningsupport@ciis.edu for support. For up-to-date Canvas Internet browser compatibility information, visit: What are Canvas browser and computer requirements – (canvaslms.com)

Department of Online Learning:

Tyler Daneman, Technology Coordinator, tdaneman@ciis.edu

Jessica Gunther, Virtual Course Manager / Senior Instructional Designer, jgunther@ciis.edu

Jamie Lopez, Consultant Instructional Designer, jlopez@ciis.edu

Ellen Prescott, Instructional Designer, eprescott@ciis.edu