How do I send my Blackboard/Canvas grades to Patriot Web? (2024)

ThePatriotWeb - Send Grades tool allows the instructor of record to send a grades from Blackboard or Canvas to Patriot Web as the Midterm Evaluation or Final grade.

Step 1: Blackboard

Step 1: Canvas

Step 2: Submit Grades

1. Access the Send Grades tool in the course
2. At the top of the page, choose Midterm/Finaldepending on whether you are submitting Midterm Evaluations or Final Grades.
3. Student grades will automatically populate from thechosen External Gradecolumn.If the grades were not yet in letter format they will be converted to letters using a simple Points / Total Points Possible calculation - this is not recommended.
4. Edit grades as needed. For example, you may need to enter a special grade.https://registrar.gmu.edu/topics/special-grades/
   1. If you enter an SA (Stopped Attending), you must also enter the Last Attended Date in the format of MM/DD/YYYY
   2. If you enter IN (Incomplete), you also must enter an Extension Date in the format of MM/DD/YYYY.
5. Submit. Be sure to go to each page (if you have more than 100 students) and submit on each page. Your grades arenow submitted to the Registrar.
6. Log intoPatriotWebto confirm grades were submitted. This step is optional yet recommended.

You can change a student’s final grade either by sending it again from Blackboard/Canvas or directly in Patriot Web. Once grades roll each night (approximately at midnight) you can no longer change grades and you must submit a form for any changes.

Tips and FAQs

Only the instructor(s) of record in Patriot Web can use this tool.

The tool will not work for sections that have been manually combined in Blackboard or Canvas (which have the word "master" in the Course ID). It does work for courses that are cross-listed in Banner/Patriot Web and are therefore combined in Blackboard/Canvas automatically.

Up to 100 students are displayed on a page. If you have more than 100 students, you must click the Submit button on each page to submit all grades.

If using a cross-listed course and you receive an error message indicating “Section ID [ ] cannot be found” this indicates you have a student that was manually added to your Blackboard/Canvas course (not automatically added when they registered). You can check this in Blackboard going to the Full Grade Center page in the course and looking at the “Child Course ID” column. In Canvas, on the People page, see if the student is listed as being in one of the course sections. If the person is not an actual registered student that needs grading, you could either remove them from the course or change their role to anything other than student. If the person is a student, please contact us to help with the issue.