Creating an Assignment and Viewing the Corresponding Gradebook Column

In Canvas, if you want to create a column in the gradebook, you have to create an assignment. Creating an assignment will generate a column in the gradebook. Fortunately, it is easy to create an assignment in Canvas, and you can create an assignment which requires no submission if you are using the assignment as a placeholder to create a column in the gradebook for an assignment which is not to be submitted in Canvas, you can create an assignment which is set up for no submission or on paper.

This video shows how to create an assignment and view the gradebook column created by the assignment.

This tutorial Links to an external site.from the Canvas guides shows detailed instructions on creating an assignment in Canvas.