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Why on earth would Canvas change this feature? The comments within the same assignment allowed me to see the conversation with my student, allowed me to see what I had already typed to them, and we could communicate this way. Now I have no idea what I wrote previously - I have to go up and click on as many submissions as…
I created a student annotation assignment. I want to download the students' work on this assignment. I have looked for the download option in the gradebook and in the assignment and it does not exists. Is this something that cannot be done in this type of assignment?
Hello, I believe this question may have been answered before and the answer was "no", so I want to confirm the answer is still "no": I have an assignment I only want some of the groups in my class (not sections) to do that assignment How can I do that? Currently the "Assign To:" allows you to select ONLY sections or…
Right now, we have the option to create a self-enroll link for students to join a course. In addition to using Canvas as the primary LMS for teachers to students, we also use it for Teacher PD, student surveys, etc. We are suggesting that Canvas develop a way to make different self-enroll links for each section in a…
I was looking for a tool that lets me see all discussion posts made by one student throughout a term but I couldn't find a discussion post aggregator tool. Is there a way to do that? (I tried checking in Settings; also tried using People to see if I could get to posts under a student name. No luck.)
Looking for the addition of partial credit for alternative format questions in Canvas, like ordering and category/matrix. We can only do it in close drop down, matching, and multiple response.
Are there any good colours for a person who is red-green colour blind to use on the calendar? I've been struggling to find good colours to use to see each of my classes, but none of them seem to work very well, as there are very few distinct colours.
Why doesn't Canvas have a way for case managers to manage accommodations/modifications at the account level? It seems inefficient for multiple teachers to have to go in and manager each individual student.
I want to use differentiation tags to group students and then create a course pacing option based on the differentiation tag. For example, we have full-time and part-time students (in the same section) part-time students get longer to complete the course, meaning they have different due dates. Rather than set each…
I need a way to add rubrics to individual response questions on a new quiz. When grading, I want to grade that question using the emmeded rubric and have it give the correct points to the question according to each rubric section. I also want the student to be able to see the scored rubric for the question on how and why…
Context: I am assisting with management of a placement test administered in a "course" through Canvas. Students self-enroll. We are using sections to distinguish between placement test takers in different years. Currently, new students who self-enroll are automatically enrolled into the 2024-2025 section, when they should…
I find that when I create or edit a rubric, I often want to rearrange the order of my listed criteria. For example, late in the process, I will remember a criterion that I want located at the beginning of the rubric. As far as I know, I do not have the ability to place a new criterion at the beginning of the rubric. I only…
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