The most effective means by which internal examiners who recorded student marks in Canvas (e.g. via the gradebook and/ or feedback tools such as speedgrader) can release these marks to students is through the gradebook.

When internal examiners wish to release the grades and feedback (including, for example, annotated pdfs in Speed Grader, or work done with the Rubric tool in Canvas) they will need to go into the Grade Book and post the grades.


For an internal examiner to release grades to students via the Gradebook in Canvas, complete the following steps.

  1. In Course Navigation, click Grades. 
    2. Any assessment that has grades has a visibility icon next to the name of the column. If a manual posting policy has been applied in a course, all assignment headers will display the MANUAL label. This label indicates that a manual posting policy is currently in place and future grades are hidden from student view.
    Once a submission has been graded, the assignment header displays the Visibility icon Image Placeholder. This indicates that there are grades within the assignment that must be posted before they can be viewed by students.
    When grades are hidden from student view, the Total column also displays the Visibility icon . This indicates that the total grade in the Gradebook differs from the total grade viewed by the student.

  2. To post the grades for this assessment item, hover over the assessment, click on the options menu Image Placeholder at the top of the column and click Post grades. 
  3. Select Everyone from the list, and click Post. Students are now able to access their grades via the Grades menu item in the module