Following are instructions how to setup and use a Chrome extension if you need to periodically transfer grades from Canvas to MLP or from an excel file to MLP. You can also see who dropped your class and who isn't registered to MLP. This extension also allows to transfer overall grades from MLP to Canvas for Midterm grades. Please contact me on my email if you experience any issues.
You will have to use Chrome for all the steps below.
Disclaimer: This Chrome extension stores the following information on your computer: Canvas class names, a list of assignments you select in Canvas -> Grades, a list of your students’ Panther ID and Canvas user ID. This extension does not send any student data out of your computer, it doesn’t store student names and their IDs (it only stores the IDs). The extension reads student grades (Canvas) and their emails (PantherSoft). This data is saved in the memory only and is erased if you close Chrome. I don’t recommend using this on your personal computer. Please use this extension only on your work computer.
The code of the extension is available on GitHub: https://github.com/zjevik/FIU-Math-Instructor
Do only once on a computer
- Install extension
We will install an extension to your Chrome browser:
- Go to link and click on “Add to Chrome”
- Click on “Add extension”
Do only once per class
- Add Panther IDs to MLP
We will add Panther IDs to MLP:
- Go to my.fiu.edu and open the rosters of all the classes you have in MLP. On the roster page you will see a green bar temporarily that announces that data were read and stored. This bar is displayed only for a second and then it disappears.
- Go to MLP -> Gradebook -> More Tools -> Add/Edit Student IDs. Select the class you want from the list, click on “Fill Data”, scroll down and click on “Save”.
- If you have any students who are in your class but not in MLP you will see their emails:
- Reading Canvas student IDs
- Open Canvas and go to People tab for the class you want to copy data from Canvas to MLP. You will probably see this:
- And then you have to scroll down until all the students are displayed.
Copy grades to MLP
- Copy grades from Canvas to MLP
- Go to Canvas -> Grades. You will see a toggle under each gradebook item like this:
- Click on the one(s) you want the grades to go to MLP so that it looks like this:
- You have to scroll slowly through the whole gradebook. Scroll down so that you can see every cell being green. If some of the cells are not green (because you scrolled too fast or you didn’t scroll all the way down the grade(s) will not be transferred to MLP)
- Go to MLP -> Assignment Manager -> select Other in the assignment type and then select “Change scores”. Select the class you want and the assignment you want to enter. You will see an error message if you forgot to do any of the preceding steps or you will see a message telling you how many scores were copied from Canvas.
- Click on “Fill data” and then “Save”.
The grades you see will change its color to green.
- Copy grades from Excel to MLP
- Open your lab/gym gradebook and make a selection that will contain PIDs in the first selected column and the grades you want to enter in the last column. Copy the data using Control+C or right click and copy
- Go to MLP -> Assignment Manager -> select Other in the assignment type and then select “Change scores”. If you copied the data to the clipboard then you will see a button to enter this data. If you copy the data from the Excel online then you have to stay for a few seconds on the excel page or the data won’t be copied. Excel standalone app work without any issues.
