iClicker Cloud: Exporting/Pushing Grades to Canvas

Canvas Integration Settings

When iClicker Cloud grades are pushed to Canvas, the way in which they appear in the Canvas gradebook depends on your settings in iClicker. To check or change these settings:

1. Go to instructor.reef-education.com Links to an external site. and login to your iClicker Cloud account.
2. Click on the name of the iClicker course that you would like to push grades from.
3. Click on the Settings option in the menu at left.
4. Along the top of the page, click on the Integrations tab.
5. See below for a description of the settings, then remember to click Save in the top right corner to save your changes.

To be able to push grades to Canvas, you must have Grade Sync Integration switched ON and you must have a Canvas course linked to your iClicker course. If you do not see that your Canvas course is connected, refer to iClicker Cloud: Getting Started for instructions on how to link your Canvas and iClicker courses.

There are two options for how grades will appear in the Canvas gradebook, click on them below for more information on each:

Pushing Grades to Canvas

Before pushing grades from iClicker into Canvas, keep the following points in mind:

• Changes and additions to grades in iClicker do not automatically update in Canvas. So you will have to do the grade pushing process every time you make any changes to grades in iClicker or you want grades from a new iClicker session to appear in Canvas.
• If students have not successfully linked their iClicker account to their Canvas account, then their iClicker grades will not appear in Canvas (their grade will appear as a "-" in the Canvas gradebook, not as a 0). To check which students have linked their accounts, go to the gradebook in iClicker (see steps 1-3 below); any student that has linked their account will have a green circle next to their name in the Grade Sync column. It is okay if students link their account at a later date as long as you then repeat the grade pushing process so that all of their iClicker grades will be properly updated in Canvas. For a student guide on how to link their accounts, see iClicker Cloud Student Guide (UBC LT Hub).
• The visibility of iClicker grades in Canvas will align with your Canvas course's Grading Policy. Therefore:
  • If you have an automatic grade posting policy, then iClicker grades will be posted immediately after being pushed to Canvas.
  • If you have a manual grade posting policy, then iClicker grades will not be visible to students until you go into your Canvas gradebook and post them. If iClicker grades are pushed into a Canvas gradebook column that already exists, then column will keep its current hidden/posted status.

Regardless of which syncing option you choose, follow the steps below to push your grades to Canvas:

1. Go to instructor.reef-education.com Links to an external site. and login to your iClicker account.
2. Click on the name of your iClicker course that you would like to push grades from.
3. Click on the Gradebook option in the menu at left. The following page is where you can check to see if your students have linked their iClicker and Canvas accounts (see note above).
4. In the top right corner, click Sync Grades.
   
   
   
5. In the pop-up window, check the boxes next to all of the sessions that you want to push into Canvas, or check the top box to select all of your course's sessions.
6. Click Sync.
   
   
   
7. The Sync Grades button will now turn grey and read Syncing..., which may take up to a minute or two. Once the button returns to normal, check your Canvas gradebook to make sure that grades were successfully pushed.

If students' iClicker grades are worth a set percentage of their overall course grade, then the iClicker grade column(s) can be added to an assignment group worth the appropriate percentage. For more information, see How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups? Links to an external site..

Exporting Grades as a CSV File

Note: exporting grades to a CSV file may cause issues if your students chose to use aliases when creating their iClicker account. If you would like to use this method, request students to tell you their iClicker aliases so that you can identify them in iClicker.

1. Go to instructor.reef-education.com Links to an external site. and login to your iClicker account.
2. Click on the name of the iClicker course that you would like to view a session in.
3. Click on the Gradebook option in the menu at left.
4. In the top right corner, click Export.
   
   
   
5. In the pop-up window, select the sessions that you would like to include as columns in the CSV file.
6. Click Export to begin downloading the file.