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My classroom policy is 10% off per day an assignment is late. Is there a way to use the attendance feature included with Canvas so that a student marked as absent does not have that day counted against them on auto-grading assignments? For instance, a student is absent on an assignment that was started and due on the same…
Just recently, my to-do list has been reduced from displaying all my courses' work until the end of the semester, to only displaying one or two assignments. Is there any way I could revert my to-do list to go back to what it was before?
We are having an issue with professors who need to use more than one rubric to rate an assignment. Our goal is to have faculty use a university-wide rubric to rate an assignment using the Learning Mastery gradebook (Outcomes). However, some professors have their own rubric they like to use for grading the work using the…
Is there a way to have the rubric score automatically added to the grade score or do I have to type it in each time?
My students would like to be able to review their responses to quiz prompts to identify correct answers. They would also like to retake the quizzes for mastery.
I am trying to create a courses that sync to multiple blue prints that appear in the course as modules. For instance, Course 101 includes (and syncs) content from Blue print A (The basics) Blue print B (Growth). Course 301 includes Blue Print A and Blue Print C (Onboarding). Is this possible?
Student groups and assignment settings are correct the Canvas. However, when students submit their assignment, the speedgrader does not have them organized in student groups. It treats student submissions as individual submissions, not as group.
I'm trying to find the most efficient way to make changes to multiple pages and the best way so far is to add a CSS code to the original HTML. However it gets stripped out when I preview page. Is there a way to add the CSS code without issues occuring? This is the code: /* Scope everything to your wrapper so it doesn’t…
Can you please change the to do list back to how it was before, it was so such better and it helped way more helpful and everyone in my classes are suffering because everything we already did is still posted and we can not swipe it done please change it back to how it was
My student started online schooling a week ago and has been completing all scheduled modules, tests, and live group sessions each day. A majority of the graded assignments are showing as missing, and the modules show that they have not been opened or completed at all. Some graded assignments show that they are both graded…
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