Reviewing Uploads, Resolving Issues, and Sending Grades to Canvas

This page explains what to do after answer sheets have been uploaded to Akindi. It covers how to review processed scans, resolve issues Akindi flags during grading, and send finalized grades to the Canvas Gradebook.

This stage of the workflow is where you confirm accuracy before grades become official.

Understanding Review & Fix

After scanning and uploading answer sheets, Akindi analyzes the responses and attempts to interpret each sheet automatically. When information is missing, unclear, or ambiguous, Akindi flags the item for review. These flagged items appear in the Review & Fix area of the assessment.

Seeing items in Review & Fix is normal. It does not mean the upload failed, it just means Akindi needs clarification before finalizing results.

What Triggers Review Items

Review items are typically generated when Akindi cannot confidently determine one of the following:

Which student a response belongs to
Which version of the assessment was used
Which answer was selected
Whether the response matches the answer key

Common causes include light marks, multiple selections, missing identifiers, or scanning artifacts. You do not need to resolve every issue on your own, Akindi will guide you through each flagged item.

Resolving Review Items

Within Review & Fix, Akindi presents each issue individually and prompts you to confirm or correct the information.

Examples of actions you may take include:

Confirming or selecting the correct student
Indicating the intended response for a question
Assigning the correct assessment version
Confirming or correcting the answer key

Work through Review & Fix items carefully before proceeding. Resolving these issues ensures grades are accurate and prevents downstream problems when syncing to Canvas.

You can save your progress and return to Review & Fix later if needed. Fixed issues will no longer appear on the Review & Fix page, unless you enabel the "Show Fixed" flag.

For detailed, step‑by‑step instructions on specific review scenarios, refer to Akindi’s official Review & Fix guides.

Hand‑Graded Questions

Some questions, such as written responses, short answers, or diagram‑based items, cannot be graded automatically.

For these questions, you will need to enter hand‑graded marks directly in Akindi before grades are finalized.

Hand‑graded marks are combined with automatically graded responses when total scores are calculated.

See the Enter Hand Graded Marks guide to learn more about adding columns for questions that could not be answered with the bubble sheet.

When Grades Are Ready

You should only proceed to send grades to Canvas when:

All Review & Fix items have been resolved
Any hand‑graded marks have been entered
The displayed scores reflect what you expect students to receive

This review step is the final checkpoint before grades are shared with students.

Sending Grades to Canvas

Once results are reviewed and finalized, grades can be sent to the Canvas Gradebook.

At a high level, sending grades involves:

Selecting Send Grades to Canvas within the Responses tab of the View Results window.
Choosing an existing Canvas grade item or creating a new one
Confirming the number of grades that will be sent

Sending grades to Canvas makes the scores available to students. Be sure all review items are resolved before syncing.

If grades are sent again, the new sync may overwrite existing scores in Canvas, depending on the selected options.

For detailed, step‑by‑step instructions, refer to Akindi’s official Send Grades to LMS guide.

If You Encounter Issues Sending Grades

If grades do not send as expected:

Confirm that Review & Fix is complete
Verify that a valid Canvas grade item is selected
Check for any error messages provided by Akindi

For system‑level issues, contact the Office of Accreditation & Assessment for assistance.

What’s Next?

After grades have been sent to Canvas, you may want to explore assessment data in more depth.

Continue to:

Analyzing Assessment Results

Learn how to interpret performance trends, item analysis, and student reports

Additional Resources (Akindi Help Center)

For step‑by‑step instructions and advanced scenarios, see: