Gradebooks & Canvas: Your Grades, Everywhere They Need to Be
Here's the part of teaching nobody puts on the recruitment poster: the grades. Not the grading itself — we've made big strides there — but everything around it. Hunting for one kid's missing score. Re-typing the same numbers into Canvas after you've already entered them once. Squinting at a wall of percentages trying to figure out who's quietly slipping. With v2.2.0, all of that gets a lot calmer. You get a real gradebook — one clean grid for your whole class — and a proper connection to Canvas that does the copying for you.
The Whole Class, On One Screen
Open the Grades & Analytics tab for any course and the first thing you'll see now is your gradebook: every student down the side, every assignment across the top, and a real percentage in each box. Not raw points you have to do math on in your head — the actual grade, worked out the same way for every type of assignment, whether it's a reading quiz, a writing piece, an oral, or a chat.
Each assignment column tells you what it is at a glance — a little icon and label up top (Writing, Reading, Oral, and so on) plus the due date — so you're never guessing which column is which. And every student name and assignment title is a link. Click a name to jump straight to that student's full picture; click an assignment to go to its results. The gradebook is a starting point, not a dead end.
Built to actually look at
It's deliberately calm — two soft shades of blue, clean lines, nothing shouting at you. There's an expand button that throws the whole grid into a near-fullscreen view for when you're really digging in, and a print button that lays it out neatly on paper for the times you need a hard copy in your hand.
Click a Grade. Change It. Done.
Any score in the gradebook is editable right where it sits. Click a box, type the percentage you want, and it's saved. Want to wipe a grade back to blank? Clear the box. Need to enter a grade for a student who handed something in on paper, or who never submitted at all? Click the empty box and type it in — the gradebook will hold that grade without pretending the student turned anything in online.
When you change a percentage, Lingua quietly keeps everything else honest behind the scenes, so the number a student sees on their results page matches the number in your gradebook. No two sources of truth drifting apart.
See Who's Struggling Without Hunting for It
A grid of numbers is only useful if the important ones jump out. Turn on Color-Code Scores and the low grades light up for you — anything at or below half marks shows in orange, and a zero shows in red. Scan a column and you instantly see who needs a check-in. It's on by default, but if you'd rather a plain, all-black grid, one click turns it off.
There's a second switch, Show Raw Scores, for when you've curved things (more on that in a second). Both switches remember how you like them — set them once and they'll be waiting the way you left them next time you log in.
Curves, Right From the Grid
You could already curve a single assignment from its results page. Now you can do it straight from the gradebook, across as many assignments at once as you like. Hit the green Add / Edit Curve button, tick the columns you want it to apply to, pick your curve, and every score updates at once. Need to change a curve later or take it off entirely? Same place, a couple of clicks.
Curved boxes show you both numbers — the original score, an arrow, then the curved one — so you always know exactly what the curve did. That goes for the gradebook and for each student's progress view. And the original score stays editable: tweak it, and the curve recalculates from your new number automatically. As before, there's a switch to decide whether students see the curved grade or just the original.
Nothing hidden
The point of showing the raw score next to the curved one is trust. You never have to wonder "wait, what did this actually start as?" — it's right there.
And Now — Canvas
This is the big one. If your school runs on Canvas, you know the drill: you grade somewhere, then you re-enter everything into the gradebook your school actually checks. It's double work, and it's exactly the kind of thing that's easy to fall behind on. v2.2.0 connects Lingua straight to Canvas so the grades you give here show up there on their own.
Connect Once, Not Once Per Class
Setting it up is a one-time thing. You connect your Canvas account a single time, and that connection covers all of your courses — you're not re-entering details for every section you teach. If anything ever changes, you update it in one place and it's sorted everywhere.
Your account stays your account
Your Canvas connection is private to you and handled carefully — it's never shown back to you in full or shared. Connect it once and forget it's there.
Link an Assignment With One Click
When you publish an assignment, you'll see a Create & Link in Canvas option. Click it, and Lingua creates the matching assignment over in Canvas and ties the two together. If you teach the same thing across several sections, it sets up the linked copies for those classes too, so you're not doing it section by section.
You'll always know what's connected. Linked assignments wear a little gold double-arrow badge on their cards, and a clear "Linked to Canvas" tag sits right above the title when you open one. In the gradebook, that same gold double-arrow marks every column that's syncing — so a glance tells you what's flowing to Canvas and what isn't.
Grades That Travel On Their Own
Once an assignment is linked, you mostly get to forget about it. When a student submits and gets graded, that grade makes its way into Canvas automatically. When you adjust a score by hand or apply a curve, the updated number follows along too. No exporting, no spreadsheets, no copy-paste marathon on a Sunday night.
If something ever doesn't go through — a Canvas hiccup, a dropped connection — the gradebook shows you the sync status and gives you a one-click retry, so nothing silently goes missing. You're never left wondering whether a grade actually landed.
Unlinking Is Safe
Changed your mind about syncing something? Unlinking simply stops new grades from flowing to Canvas. It does not reach into Canvas and delete the assignment or wipe the grades you've already sent. Whatever's over there stays exactly as it is — unlinking just quietly steps back. You can connect and disconnect things without that nervous "am I about to break my real gradebook?" feeling.
A Note on What Syncs
Anything with a real points grade — writing, oral, reading, listening, quizzes — flows to Canvas. Conversation-style chat and voice chat assignments, which are about whether a student genuinely engaged rather than a percentage out of a hundred, stay in Lingua where that context lives. It keeps your Canvas gradebook clean and meaningful instead of cluttered with numbers that don't mean what a normal grade means.
The Short Version
You get one place to see and adjust every grade in a course, and a connection to Canvas that quietly does the part you've been doing by hand. Less re-typing, fewer tabs, and a much clearer view of how your class is actually doing. That's v2.2.0 — give it a try with your next assignment and let the grades take care of their own commute.