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UPDATE: Use the Canvas Grade in Progress Reporting

Update: Not all Canvas grades are reaching Starfish. If you have some, but not all, Canvas grades for a course in Starfish, this issue should be resolved within the next few days. If you have no Canvas grades appearing in Starfish, there are issues with the way your gradebook is being displayed; Starfish can only ingest unmuted grades in whole numbers.  

Beginning Friday, August 18, Starfish will receive a nightly snapshot of Canvas current grades, enabling instructors to use the Canvas grade for progress reporting. This function is intended to help instructors of large-enrollment courses provide feedback to students in a more efficient manner. The Canvas current grade is only visible to instructors and TAs in Starfish.

Faculty who use the Canvas gradebook can use Starfish to set up categories of grades (e.g., Good, OK, Poor) using percentage ranges they choose. They then can select all students from a grade category and choose the appropriate feedback students in that category would receive.  The feedback is also sent to a student’s assigned academic adviser through Starfish.

Step-by-step instructions for how to use this feature in Starfish are online, as are Canvas recommendations for gradebook best practices.

• Starfish instructions: https://tinyurl.com/canvas-grade-in-starfish
• Canvas gradebook instructions: http://tinyurl.com/prep-final-grades and http://tinyurl.com/display-student-grades/.

This implementation adds a third Starfish method for faculty to choose among when providing feedback on student performance during the semester. Faculty can continue to select individual students and send feedback or complete a progress survey. These options allow faculty to select the feedback method that best suits their course. All three methods of providing students feedback allow faculty to meet the requirements of Faculty Senate policy 47-70 on early progress reporting.

Dates for progress reporting periods are set

Instructors will be asked to provide feedback to students in their undergraduate courses at two points in the fall semester.

• Early Indicator progress survey: September 5-19 (weeks 3-4)
• Mid-Semester progress survey: October 16-30 (weeks 9-10)

As explained above, faculty have three methods to do this in Starfish, and may choose the method that best suits their course. The progress survey is one of those methods.