Before reusing assignments, you will need to edit the availability dates (Due, Available from, and Until Date) for students to access them.

You may also update other settings as needed, for example:

• Choose how the grade is displayed, e.g., Points, Percentage, or Letter Grade.
• The assignment's Submission Type, e.g., an Online or External Tool assignment.
• If an assignment's grade was not sent to the Gradebook in UVACollab, the Canvas assignment has the option Do not count this assignment towards the final grade enabled. Uncheck the corresponding checkbox to include the assignment in the course grade calculation.
• Add or remove file attachments in assignment instructions.

See the following articles:

• How do I add or edit details in an assignment? (opens new window) for general instructions.
• How do I add an external tool assignment in UVACanvas? for steps to link assignments from external tools such as Gradescope or iRubric.
• How do I upload a document in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor? (opens new window) for steps to add a file attachment in assignment instructions. To remove a file from an assignment's instructions, delete the file's link in the Rich Content Editor by following the steps in How do I add and modify text in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor? (opens new window).

Follow the steps in How do I delete an assignment? (opens new window) to remove any assignments you do not plan to reuse.

If you saved any assignments while editing them without publishing them, don't forget to follow the steps in How do I publish or unpublish an assignment as an instructor? (opens new window) to make each assignment available to students at its Available from date.

Gradebook categories from UVACollab are assignment groups in UVACanvas.

You may need to edit the following settings in assignment groups that were created for you:

• Names: If your Assignments tool includes automatically-created assignment groups such as Items sent to Gradebook, you may rename them to make them meaningful to students.
• Weights: The % of total grade for some automatically-created assignment groups may need to be modified.
• Dropped grade settings: If your UVACollab site's Gradebook had the Keep Highest setting enabled for a category, you may need to adjust the Number of scores to ignore for each student depending on the number of assignments your Canvas assignment group will include. The Number of scores to ignore for each student feature is the closest Canvas equivalent to Keep Highest.

You may also delete an automatically-created assignment group and move its assignments to another assignment group.

To edit or delete assignment groups, see:

• How do I add an assignment group in a course? (opens new window) under the section Manage Assignment Group for steps to edit or delete assignment groups.
• How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups? (opens new window) for steps to modify weights.
• How do I create rules for an assignment group? (opens new window) for steps to adjust the Number of scores to ignore for each student.

You can move assignments to different assignment groups or reorder them within an assignment group by following the steps in How do I move or reorder an assignment? (opens new window).