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CUClickers - Set Up Roster and Grade Sync for iClicker & Canvas

Roster and Grade Sync enables you to sync your roster, from Canvas to iClicker, and will push attendance and polling data back to Canvas. Please ensure you have a course in Canvas, and if there are multiple sections you need combined, please ensure you have completed that process before setting up Roster and Grade Sync.

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Step 1

Go to Canvas Settings and rename your course with an indication of the appropriate semester and year. Click Update Course Details at the bottom of the page.

Step 2

Go to the iClicker instructor portal and navigate to the Settings page for your course.

Step 3

In Settings, click the Integrations tab, then click Connect to Canvas.

Step 4

You will be prompted to Go to Canvas and then to Authorize the connection.

Step 5

From the list of courses, find the one that corresponds to the current semester (as you named it in step one). Select that course and click Next.

Step 6

If there are multiple sections, choose the correct one and click Connect. Note that sections that don't meet concurrently cannot be in the same iClicker course.

Step 7

Click Sync Roster Now.

Step 8

Click View Details to email an invitation to create an iClicker account to students that don't have one yet. You will need to re-sync the roster daily until the add-drop period has ended. This can be found on the People tab of your iClicker course.

Step 9

Click the uppermost left box to select all the students that need to create a clicker account, then click Send Email to send the invitation.

Step 10

Decide how you want iClicker to populate grades to Canvas. Unless you have a good reason to do so, it’s best to let iClicker create a single grade item in your Canvas gradebook. If you have multiple sections, you will want to rename the grade item with the section number for each section you set up.

Step 11

If you are running an “Attendance Only” class (where you do not intend to ask any questions) Roster and Grade Sync can sync the attendance grade to Canvas. These settings are at the bottom of the Integration page. Attendance defaults to 100 points but you can change that to reflect your grading preference.

Step 12

If everything looks correct, click Save.

Step 13

You will need to create a grade group in Canvas. Under assignments, click + Group. Name the group,and move it to the top of the assignments list. It’s best to use weighted assignment groups when using iClicker, because it’s difficult to predict the total number of points a student can earn by the end of the semester.

Step 14

The first time you sync the grades from iClicker to Canvas, iClicker will create a grade item in the grade group at the top of your assignments list, so make sure to leave the new grade group there. Any changes you wish to make to grades should be made in the iClicker gradebook, not in Canvas, as iClicker will overwrite any changes made in Canvas. To learn more about syncing grades to Canvas, see our grading tutorial.