Instructors will create a Gradescope Assignment and a Canvas Assignment independently, and then link them together once both are made. For the Gradescope Assignment to find the Canvas Assignment, the Canvas Assignment needs to be published. Instructors will want to set up the Gradescope assignment first, and then come back and make the assignment in Canvas to link to. This linking will create the assignment for students in Canvas that will serve as a pass-through to Gradescope, and will create the appropriate column in the Gradebook where grades will be sent.
Only those with the role of Instructor, Guest Instructor, or Teacher (not commonly used) can create and link to a Gradescope Course, as well as create and link assignments.
TAs or Teaching Fellows will be able to grade assignments already created, but not connect assignments from Gradescope to Canvas.
- Create your Gradescope assignment in your Gradescope course that aligns with you Canvas course.
- Reference our Gradescope: Enabling Gradescope and Linking a New / Existing Course article for instructions on creating a Gradescope course if you have not done so already.
- Once you have created your assignment on Gradescope and are ready to link it to Canvas, navigate to the "Assignments" section in the course navigation and click the "+ Assignment" button to begin creating the Canvas Assignment.
- Fill in the "Assignment Name" in the top text box that aligns with the name of the Gradescope assignment you already made.
- You do not need to type in a description as the assignment will load Gradescope automatically.
- Set the "Points" field to match the total number of points that can be awarded in the Gradescope assignment you created.
- Set the "Display Grade as" field to "Points" as well.
- Set the "Submission Type" to "External Tool," and click "Find" under the "External Tool Options."
- You do not need to check the "Load This Tool in A New Window" box as Gradescope will load within the frame of Canvas if you do not want your students to leave your course page.
- In the "Configure External Tool" pop-up box that opens, scroll down the list of available external tools to click on "Gradescope."
- A new pop-up modal of Gradescope will open in Canvas where you will be asked to link either "A new Gradescope assignment" or "An existing Gradescope assignment." Select to link an existing assignment and select your already made Gradescope assignment from the dropdown and click the "Link Assignment" button when done.
- If creating a new Gradescope assignment you will go through the assignment creation process prior to linking to the Canvas assignment.
Note: A linked Gradescope assignment's name will be overridden by the Canvas assment name.
If the assignment you are setting up is a group assignment that requires one or more students to submit on behalf of a group of people, you cannot designate the group submission requirements on the Canvas side when using the "Submission Type: External Tool" setting.
Group assignments can be managed on the Gradescope side if you are creating one of the following assignment types.
- Online Assignment
- Homework / Problem Set
- Programming Assignment
This is done by indicating that the assignment is a group assignment, and by indicating the limit of the group size. If a student is submitting an assignment for multiple people, that student will be indicating which students they are including in submission during upload, and Gradescope will automatically give each of the students the same grade to pass back to Canvas. For more information about Group Submissions, please reference Gradescope's support articles:
- You will be brought back to your Canvas assignment set-up page, where you can now scroll down to the "Assign" settings and set the due date and availability dates to match the Gradescope assignment's dates so that your students know in Canvas what is expected from them in Gradescope.
- "Due" date in Canvas = "Due Date" in Gradescope
- "Available from" in Canvas = "Release Date" in Gradescope
- "Until" date in Canvas = "Late Due Date" in Gradescope, if your Due Date does not equal your Until Date.
Gradescope has One (1) time zone for Yale's instance of Gradescope, which is Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) regardless of what your time zone is in Canvas. These will not sync.
- When done setting up the Canvas assignment linking the Gradescope assignment, click the "Save & Publish" button at the bottom of the page.
- The Gradescope assignment is now linked to the Canvas assignment and will open automatically when users click the Canvas item.
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