Hiding Students from the Gradebook

Students can change their course schedules at the beginning of a term or semester. When a student withdraws from a class their enrollment (membership) record is set to unavailable and displays in the Gradebook with a strikethrough on their avatar. The instructor's view of the Gradebook can become cluttered with students who aren’t actively enrolled in the class.

Using the Students Visibility setting, instructors have the option to hide or show unenrolled students.  The default option is to show these students. 

You can access the Students Visibility setting from two locations: 

• Course settings (found in the upper right corner of the course
• Gradebook settings 

If you change the Students Visibility from Course settings, it will also change in Gradebook settings, and vice versa. Also, the selected visibility setting applies to all users teaching the course. 

The Students Visibility setting affects these Gradebook areas: 

• Grades page 
• Students page 
• Calculation student list 
• Gradable items student list 
• Submission tab for an assessment 
• Student Activity tab for an assessment 

Image 1. Instructor view of the Gradebook settings panel showing the new Student Visibility option set to display students who no longer have access to the course

Image 2. Instructor view of the Gradebook settings panel showing the new Student Visibility option set to hide students who no longer have access to the course

Image 3. Instructor view of the Course settings area showing the new Student Visibility option