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Files management
After 7 years of building, iterating, and updating, there is a lot of detritus in some courses. Removing superseded pages, assignments, and discussions is easy enough but is there a clever way of identifying artifacts in Files that are no long embedded in pages, assignments, discussions, etc? It would be great to have a…
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Managing peer reviews
Hi there. I have just over 500 students in the course and we have an assessment that includes peer reviews on a graded discussion. Is there a quick and easy way to review students who have / have not done the peer review? The Peer Review screen that opens from the assignment is very limited with just 10 people per page, no…
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How do you encourage more meaningful student participation in Canvas discussions?
Hi everyone! As a grad student who's used Canvas discussions as a course requirement, I've noticed it's often hard to know where to contribute beyond replying to the first post. Threads get long and ideas get buried. I'm working on a capstone project exploring whether visualizing discussion structure in real time (thematic…
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Tracking completion of a module across courses
Hi everyone, Our institution has developed a non-mandatory Academic Integrity module that an instructor can include in their course if they wish. Unfortunately, we have no way of tracking a student's completion of a module across courses; students end up having to complete it for each course in which it has been included.…
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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 I'm looking for strategies to help faculty clean up courses that have been copied multiple times, and now have outdated and broken content.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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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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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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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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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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How to drag and drop across multiple months with Calendar
Everything says change the mini-calendar and then take it to the new month, but that does not work. The mini-calendar and main calendar sync to the same month.
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EDUCAUSE 2025 Reflections: Share Your Takeaways
EDUCAUSE may be over, but the conversations don't have to stop! Let’s reflect on what we learned, debated, and discovered together: What’s your biggest EDUCAUSE takeaway, and how do you think it will shape higher education in 2026 and beyond? Which themes stood out most this year? Was it AI, student experience,…