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Canvas for writing tutors
Hi, Canvas users! At my institution, the writing center director has set up a Canvas page for use by writing tutors. It serves mostly as a communication hub for the writing center, with active discussions, a calendar, and some resources for sharing with students who are being tutored. There is no client-facing content…
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View But Not Edit Gradebook
Greetings, I have admin access, and I am looking for the right permission to allow a TA to view the grade book but not have the ability to enter or modify scores. The interface is great for seeing who has submitted, who still needs to be graded, and who has not submitted, regardless of the due date. I want the TA to have…
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Prism.js integration via Custom CSS/JS
Hi everyone, We are currently using the standard Canvas RCE code highlighting for program code. Our ed designers and academicians want more syntax highlighting than is currently available. So we are considering the use of prism.js as an add-on to our custom JS and CSS for Canvas. It can be found here: https://prismjs.com/.…
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Taking notes
Hi everyone, We have recently moved to Canvas after using printed workbooks and PowerPoint presentations for many years. The feedback from students is that they love Canvas but miss the printed workbooks, because they like to add notes to the information presented. Is there a way students can annotate onto Canvas or add…
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How do you manage enrolment?
My institution is reviewing the way in which we manage enrolment into our VLE, Canvas. We cannot drive this from SITS as this does not track students involved in teaching, but rather assessment. Instead on a course by course basis we enrol groups of students/staff onto courses (note we can roll over these group enrolments…
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Credentials Users at 2023 Convergence: Credential Innovation in Higher Education
Canvas Credentials users who will be attending the UPCEA / AACRAO Convergence: Credential Innovation in Higher Education event in DC this November: Let me know if you'd like to meet up to talk shop over lunch or during a networking break!
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Insight for Healthcare Institution + Canvas
Hello! If this is not the appropriate group to ask this question, please direct me otherwise! I am assisting with the implementation of Canvas into my employer's institution, which is a healthcare organization. I am curious how others in similar settings have structured their organization's internal learning system (i.e.…
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Is Observer the right base role for a "Peer Mentor"?
At our institution we have a variety of "Peer Mentor" (PM)-type roles: students who are placed in undergraduate classes as advisors/mentors/tutors to the enrolled students. The PM is a fellow matriculated undergrad, but not enrolled in the course (in many case, they have successfully completed the course in the past). We…
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Using the free version of Folios for course or program assessment?
We want to provide a way for school divisions to use e-portfolios for course or program assessments. Currently, we have the free version of Folios enabled in our instance of Canvas. Has any other institution been able to use this tool for either type of assessment? If so, how? If not, what do you use instead? FYI - We are…
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Ratio of Instructional designers to faculty/courses at institutions
Hey folks, this is tangentially related to Canvas, hope that's ok. I work at a small medical college with about 50 faculty and 600 students. I am interested in the ratios at other colleges/universities (of any size) between Instructional Designers (in-house or contracted) and the number of faculty/courses they support? My…
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Course Retention Policies
My team is working towards a retention policy for Canvas courses. We just switched to Canvas a few years ago, and as such haven't had to think about old courses much before. My questions is: what is the retention policy at your campus? How long do you keep old courses?
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Load Homepage / page based on date feature
You know how we can set a module to be visible after a certain date? It would be really great if there were a way we could do this with pages. For example, if I have a page or module set for each week, the system would auto-load tthat one as the main page. Alternatively, it would jump down the module list to the module…
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New to Canvas
Personally, I have been using Canvas since 2018 in the K-12 world. I am now in Higher Ed (Technical College) and I am responsible for assisting/training our faculty on Canvas. My big hurdle now is how to convince others to make the leap. The site used a Moodle for many years prior. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions…
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Test logs, analytics and cheating by pasting in answers
There have been several posts asking questions about test logs and cheating. The standard Canvas support answer seems to be that the analytics are not intended to be used to detect cheating. My question is why not!!!! As an example I had a student enter a 250 word answer and the time log indicated that answer was inputted…
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Do you just delete unused Canvas shells/empty courses?
Greetings, Fellow HIED LMS admins, do you just delete unused and/or empty Canvas shells at some point in the semester? We currently have hundreds every semester. We load in Canvas courses very early, often months before the start date, which means that many of the courses get cancelled, and all enrollments get deleted. But…