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We have a need for a course role that is able to view all course content, published and unpublished, but not edit anything or see student data. For example, seeing a quiz that is unpublished or outside its availability date (so the default Observer role won't work), but not able to change settings or questions. From what I…
Unless I post as an assignment, the students cannot access the edpuzzle. Would love to know the reasoning behind this? I don't want to post it as an assignment.
Hi, everyone, I have weekly Discussions set up for small groups in Canvas, with a rubric for grading. Typically they require an original post and a reply or two. When I grade the posts, I will find some where the student did not add the reply. I add a note asking them to add their replies and then I will regrade. Here's…
I find that when I am grading in speedgrader, I often want to send a student a message. Is there any way to do it directly. That is not go to the inbox and go through the five steps to send an message?
How do I copy one module from an older course to one that I am not facilitating?
Hello Everyone, I received this comment/complaint from one of our faculty about the changes to the Status box in SpeedGrader. What has been the reaction from your faculty? How might this change be a better process for faculty? Many of you who teach online may have noticed an update in Canvas that is adding steps and time…
Exactly like this user: https://community.instructure.com/en/discussion/539385/speed-grader-incomplete-complete-greyed-out I have marked each question as "Check" and clicked Update. Under "Assessment" the Grade is still 0/0 and the dropdown is greyed out. I want to be able to mark each assignment as Complete in…
Hi Canvas admins, For your faculty/staff users who are also students in your instance, do they have multiple logins/user IDs on each account? Or do they have two separate accounts (one as faculty/staff with one login, one as student with a different login)? I ask as we're moving to Banner SaaS soon, and all our student ID…
As "Ideas" section is gone (at least for now), I'm posting a feature request here. Mobile app shows a list of students who have submitted or not submitted a quiz/assignment. Would be good to have this in web version as well as way to export csv.
In speed grader you receive the students initial discussion board posting and their peer reply. We have time deadlines and criteria for each posting. In speed grader it show initial posting was 6 days ago and the reply was 2 days ago. How can the date and time of each response be shown in speed grader instead of having to…
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