TOCC requires the submission of midterm student progress reports and grades, in addition to final grades at the end of the term, as listed on the Academic Calendar. This data is automatically pulled from the Total grade column for each student in each class, so it needs to be accurate and up to date.
For many courses, instructors create all of their assignments within Canvas and to allow it to calculate each student's Total grade automatically. This is a best practice for keeping the Canvas gradebook up to date at all times. However, given the mix of external assignment tools and teaching methods used, this may not always be practical. Below is a proposed workaround for situations where course assignments are not hosted and tracked within Canvas, but an instructor still needs to ensure that midterm and final grades are available within Canvas. (If you do already follow the best practice of structuring your course to track all of your assignments and grades in Canvas, you can ignore the rest of this article!)
You can create a student grade placeholder by creating an Assignment called "Current Grade" and setting it for "No Submission" from students. Then set it to be worth the number of points possible so far, or just a simple 100 points.
Then go to your Canvas gradebook and manually type in the numerical grade that each student should have at this point in time.
The grade in the Total column will then be automatically transferred by TOCC IT to the student grades database in Jenzabar.