You can give students extra credit in Canvas using several options.

Notes:

• If you are weighing your assignment groups, please pay attention to how weighted groups can affect the Gradebook if assignments are worth zero points.
• If you have drop rules set in an assignment group, adding extra points may affect your students' scores.

If you have added a rubric to an assignment, you can view the rubric in SpeedGrader.

If you want to use the rubric to calculate a grade, be sure you have selected the Use this rubric for assignment grading checkbox when adding a rubric to an assignment. Make sure this checkbox is selected before you begin grading submissions.

If you do not select the rubric specifically for grading, you can still use the rubric to evaluate an assignment but the score will not update automatically.

Note: If you do not want to use predetermined rubric criterion, you can grade with free-form comments instead.

You can align any outcome in your course to a rubric. Rubrics are used to help students understand expectations for an assignment and how their submissions will be graded. Outcomes can be aligned with a rubric for additional assessment and measurable performance.

To align an outcome, the outcome must already exist for your account. Learn how to create account outcomes.

Notes:

• Outcomes can be added to rubrics, but rubrics cannot be added to outcomes.
• Rubrics cannot be edited once they have been added to more than one assignment in a course.

You can create rubrics for instructors to use across your institution. Instructors can add account-level rubrics to their assignments, graded discussions, and quizzes. Instructors can also create their own rubrics in their courses.