Things to know:

Nightly Sync is set to ON for all courses and runs every night around midnight.
Extra Credit does NOT sync to Synergy.
You can push a sync at any time in the Grade book.
If you see a grade discrepancies the first step to troubleshoot is to use the Remaster Grades Passback sync.

How to set up your Gradesync:

There are four steps to setting up your Grade book sync:

Creating Assignment Groups (Canvas) and Assignment Type (Synergy)
Connecting Assignment Groups (Canvas) and Assignment Type (Synergy)
Assignment Selection
Exporting Grades

Step 1: Creating Assignment Groups

The main task in setting up your grade book is to make sure that you have the same titles and grade weights for:

Synergy - Assignment Type
Canvas - Assignment Groups

Creating Synergy Assignment Type

You can either make new Assignment Types or use existing Assignment Types.

Open Synergy
Click on Grade Book, then Grade Book Setup

At this point, you can choose the name of one of the existing Assignment Types or make a new type by clicking on the Assignment Types tab.
This is also where you can adjust the weighting of Assignment Types.

Creating Canvas Assignment Groups

Open the specific Canvas Course
Click on Assignments
Your Assignments will need to be organized in Groups.
Add a group by clicking on +Group and giving it the same name as the Assignment Type name in Synergy

Image showing how to create a new assignment group

Step 2: Connecting Assignment Groups

This process is done in your Canvas course:

Open your Canvas Course
Click on Assignments
Click on the 3-Little Dots in the top right corner
Select Sync SIS Category

Each of your Canvas Assignment Groups can now be associated with the available Synergy Assignment Types. This process removes the need for Groups and Types to be exactly the same.

Image showing the dropdowns available from Synergy Assignment Types.

Step 3: Assignment Selection

At this time the default for all assignments in Canvas is set to "Sync to Synergy". Whenever you are making an assignment/quiz/graded discussion, you will have the option to deselect that checkbox if you do not want to sync that grade.

You can select/deselect "Sync to SIS" from the individual assignment or from the Assignments page:

Image showing the difference between syncing assignments by individual assignment or assignment group
Individual Assignment	Assignments Page
Look for "Sync to Synergy"	Look for the small circular icon for Syncing

Step 4: Exporting Grades

Once you have done Steps 1, 2, and 3, the maintenance of your Grades Export is completed through your Canvas Gradebook.

There are 3 ways to sync and each has its specific purpose.

Nightly Sync - This is set to default ON. You don't have to do anything. It will run every night around midnight.
Gradebook Sync - This is easily accessed in the Canvas Gradebook.
Remaster Grades Passback - This is a full grade book re-sync. This is an excellent way to troubleshoot any grade book discrepancies like
- Scores or final grades not matching
- When a new student is added to your section
- When a student is transferred between your sections/periods

Gradebook Sync

Open a course in Canvas
Click on Gradebook
Click on Sync
Click on Sync to SIS
Follow the prompts to sync.

Image showing the buttons to sync grades to our SIS.

Remaster Grades Passback

Open a course in Canvas
Click on Grade Sync
Click on the Utilities tab
Click on Remaster Grades Passback

If you don't see Grade Sync or would like more information, here is a video tutorial: