Awarding Points to Students for Completing a Course Evaluation

Description 

Instructions

1. To add a gradebook item for completing evaluations, you will need to access Watermark by selecting Instructor Course Evaluations from the Course Navigation menu in one of your courses.
2. Once you have accessed Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys, click on Results and select Canvas Gradebook Update.
3. Using the filter options, find the course where you wish to add points and click the Update link next to the course.
4. This will open a box where you can configure the following fields:
   1. Response Type: From the drop-down, select Submitted Evaluations. Note: ISU is not using the optional Survey Opt-Out feature.
   2. Points: Assign the number of points that will be added when a student completed the survey for the course.
   3. Notes: This is an optional field to add notes to the Canvas Gradebook Update History for the course to provide additional notes of how or why the points were assigned.
5. After you have configured how you wish to assign points to the Canvas Gradebook, click Update Canvas Gradebook to push points to students in the course who have completed their course evaluation.
6. If you wish to change the points possible, follow the steps above and then click the Update link for the desired course. Subsequent submissions will update the points and will not create duplicates.
7. Click the History link to view the historical Canvas Gradebook Updates for the desired course.

Note: Assigning Gradebook points is not an automated feature and requires a manual update to "push" points to students. Updates can be done whenever students complete their surveys, however, it is recommended to do one final update when the survey ends and before final grades are calculated to ensure all students receive their assigned points. Subsequent assignments of points will overwrite previous assigned points to the student and course, not assign additional.