Parents - Viewing Grades-2
Grade Overview
From the Canvas home screen, you can view your child's overall grades or open specific course to view all assignment grades. To view your current grades for all classes, click the grades icon on the left side of your screen: 
You will see a list of your child's courses and current grades:
To see more details, click on one of the courses to see individual assignment grades for the current marking period. This page will list each assignment, due date, score, and points possible. At the bottom of the grade detail page, you will see the student's current marking period average and averages for any assignment categories (if the teacher is using categories)
*By default, this view shows the current quarter. Use the Grading Period drop down menu at the to of the page to select a different quarter. Click Apply.
On the right side of each row, you may see some different icons. Selecting these icons will expand grading details for the assignment such as teacher comments and rubric scores if used by the teacher:
Assignment Submission Details
- From the grades page, click an assignment title to view your child's submission (if the assignment was submitted digitally) (3a)
- For more details about the task click the assignment title at the top of the submission screen. (3b)
Grade Page Symbols
There are different icons on the Grades page. Depending on the type of assignment submission, grading rules, and comments, you will see different icons.
Submission Type Icons
- Document Icon [1]: File upload submitted, not graded
- Discussion Icon [2]: Graded discussion submitted, but not graded
- Quiz icon [3]: Quiz submitted, not fully graded (contains questions that must be manually graded, or an auto-submitted quiz score has been deleted and needs to be reassigned); can also display if a quiz has been edited and includes major changes that affect the quiz score, such as deleting questions or deleting quiz answers, and requires a grader to manually resolve
- Text Icon [4]: Text entry submitted, not graded
- Link Icon [5]: A URL has been submitted, not graded
- Media Icon [6]: Media recording submitted, not graded
- Visibility Icon [7]: Score is hidden while instructor is grading; you will not be able to view your grade, submission comments, or quiz responses until your instructor posts grades for the assignment
Submission Details Icons
When your student's teacher grades your student's assignment, the grades page displays a blue dot next to the assignment [1]. The indicator disappears when you navigate away or refresh the page.
Assignment updates may also include additional icons representing submission details:
- Discussion Icon [2]: Assignment comments
- Check Plus Icon [3]: Scoring details
- Rubric Icon [4]: Rubric details
Grading Types
Each grading type shows up differently on the Grades page. Here you can see how each grading type is represented:
- Number [2]: Grade shown by number of points
- Check Icon [1]/X Icon [3]: Complete/Incomplete scoring was used
- Letter [4]: Letter grade
- Percentage [6]: Grade shown as a percentage
- EX [7]: Excused assignment; this assignment cannot be submitted but does not factor into your overall grade
- Dash [8]: No submission. This may be an on-paper assignment that they teacher has not graded yet or a digital assignment that has not been submitted yet. Digital assignments that have not been submitted will be show a Missing status after the due date passes.
- Grade Info Icon [9]: Points earned from this assignment do not count toward your final grade
Mobile App
The Canvas Mobile App for Parents has the most streamlined view of Canvas grades for households with multiple children. In the app, you are able to view courses and grades for one child at a time, and see which work has been submitted, graded, or is missing.
See the Parent Mobile App page for more information.