Free tool
Canvas grade calculator
Enter each assignment group's weight and your score. Leave a score blank for work that isn't graded yet — the calculator shows your grade now, your projected grade, and what you need on what's left.
Weighted grade
- Grade now
- 84.5% · B
- Projected
- 54.9%
- Weights total
- 100%
Based on 65% of the course graded
If ungraded work scores zero
Adds up correctly
What do I need on the final?
Uses every row above that still has a blank score.
100.3%
needed across the remaining 35% of your grade — not reachable, aim for the next grade down
How Canvas calculates your grade
Canvas shows two numbers. The current grade counts only graded work, which is what this calculator's "grade now" matches. The total grade counts ungraded assignments as zeros — that's the "projected" figure. Tick "Calculate based only on graded assignments" in the Canvas Grades page to switch between them.
When a course uses assignment groups with weights, each group is averaged on its own and then multiplied by its weight. A 95% in a group worth 10% moves your grade far less than an 80% in a group worth 40%. If weights don't total 100%, Canvas scales them proportionally.
Dropped scores are applied inside the group before weighting, so a "lowest quiz dropped" rule changes that group's average only. Excused work is removed from the calculation entirely, unlike a zero.
Your instructor may also hide totals or leave grades unposted, in which case Canvas shows nothing even though scores exist. That's a posting policy, not a calculation error.
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