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Exploring the shifts across data awareness, digital storytelling, and ethical AI
We’re continuing our 2026 season of Educast3000 with a deep dive into how digital transformation is reshaping one of our oldest educational institutions: the museum. In our latest episode, we chatted with Katherine Burton-Jones, Director of the Museum Studies Program at the Harvard Extension School. Katherine describes her…
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How do you start cleaning up a copy of a copy of a copy?
Hello, colleagues! I'm looking for strategies to help faculty clean up courses that have been copied multiple times, and now have outdated and broken content. Is there a "best" way to get started with a fresh version of a course, besides starting from scratch? Thanks for your insights!
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What the 2025 Course Availability Report Tells Us About Academic Mobility in Higher Ed
Whether you’re overseeing a registrar’s office, leading an advising team, or managing systems at the state level, you see it every day: students are increasingly building their own paths across multiple institutions to keep their momentum. Because while we often talk about student success in terms of motivation or…
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Textbook Integration Policies?
Hello! I am looking to see if anyone's institution uses a specific textbook integration request policy (e.g. how many days prior to the start of a term must requests be submitted, etc.)? Whatever you have, I'd love to hear it. We are looking at how to best manage textbook integration requests from faculty members. Thanks!
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How big can you go?!
Hi there, Right now we have a class of of 840 students with about 70 assignments. Let's multiply that to be 58,800. We are running into a need to run a merged class site of almost 1000 students sections with almost 70 assignments. 70,000 data points. That's a 20% increase in our that gradebook. Has anyone got that big on…
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Checkpoints and Availability
For anyone using checkpoints in discussions: Is there a way to set an "available until" date on the initial "reply to topic"? That is, not just set a due date for making a first post, but make it so students can't do that after the due date? Having students able to start a discussion assignment after the due date for the…
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Student Tech Setup Guide: Preventing Common Canvas Access Issues Before Semester Starts
Hey everyone, Every semester starts the same way. Students email saying they can't access Canvas, quizzes won't load, or their computer crashes during exams. Most of these issues are preventable. I've been working on a better approach: getting students tech-ready BEFORE the semester begins instead of troubleshooting during…
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Why no longer able to reuse comments when using rubrics?
I was frustrated today when I came to grade an assignment I had set up with a rubric. I've been using that particular assignment/rubric for several years, with no issue, copying my Canvas courses from semester to semester. Even better, I had crafted some great comments for students, multiples of whom tend to make the same…
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Poll Everywhere and Learning Services—a perfect match
Chances are high you’ve heard of and even used Poll Everywhere— it’s the leading polling software that makes presentations even more engaging. With a variety of interactive poll options, speakers can easily engage their audience and get real-time feedback. We’re proud to call Poll Everywhere a partner here at Instructure,…
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Can students edit but not delete their own discussion posts?
In discussions, can students be able to edit their posts but not delete their own discussions? In the Course Settings, there is currently an option to allow "Let students edit or delete their own discussion replies." I don't want students to delete a post, because then they may inadvertently delete any replies to their…
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Exploring Research Management in Canvas LMS: Participate, Pilot, Provide Feedback
Over the last few months, we’ve been working with a small group of researchers and developers on a question that some faculty struggle with: How do I support students in conducting meaningful research in a manageable, usable way? A challenge we’ve heard from faculty and research-active instructors is that student research…
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Using column-count CSS?
Does Canvas support the css attribute column-count? I know work-arounds using bootstrap and tables. Column-count is simpler. I can't tell if I'm doing something wrong or it's yet another thing that's not allowed. Related: Is there a list of what isn't allowed? Or even what is?
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Autograde Discussions
Hi all, is there a way to automatically assign a grade (points, letter or C/NC) to a discussion when students write a response - I'm thinking a feature similar to the graded survey feature in the old quizzes? Thanks!
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I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE....
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE, JUST WONDERING IF I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO IS MISSING SCHOOL LIKE CRAZY….. SO USED TO DOING IT DAILY THAT NOW MY LIFE FEELS LIKE ITS BEEN MISSING SOMETHING…..#READY4CLASS#ONLY4DAYS#UNTILCOURSEOPENS….YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!! OR AM I REALLY THE ONLY 1….?
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Articulate 360 stopped working
Yesterday in our Canvas classes our Articulate 360 courses were working. Today they are inaccessible to everyone. I have a trouble ticket open with Articulate, has anyone seen this before?