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Hi, We are transitioning to ILP to sync course data from Colleague to Canvas. The connection itself is working successfully. However, I need some assistance with getting Blueprint courses applied to the course shells in Canvas. Currently, we use a .csv courses file to create the courses and associate them with the…
I have a teacher with a quiz that is graded, but the assignment itself goes into our SIS (PowerSchool), but th egrades are not going over, but the sync information says it all went over. How do I remedy this?
Hello, We populate our Canvas via Banner SIS connections, Loading is going great, but we want to develop a policy on removal - I searched the community - are there any best practices for managing students and faculty accounts? Challenges: Faculty need access back like 4 years (due to courses being offered every other year…
Is there ANY way to automate/force Canvas to sync ungraded assignments with Veracross SIS? right now our only solution is to require teachers to enter a fake grade, sync, and then remove it. I am willing to entertain 3rd party solutions if there is one available.
A teacher at my school set up her coursework category to "Drop the lowest score" in both Canvas and PowerSchool (we use both). At the end of the semester, 13 of her 78 students had different percentages, with 8 of those being corner cases, resulting different letter grades. And all of those scores were higher in Canvas. I…
Hello, Is anyone doing a grade sync from Canvas to Jenzabar? Thanks!
We are a credit retrieval school where students do one course every 4ish weeks. We load students into a course through Skyward (grade posting/transcript service) and Canvas and Skyward sync to load students into Canvas courses. Our issue is that when a student finishes a course, and their grade is transcripted in Skyward,…
I am working with a partner school that has been told by their IT staff that you cannot cross list courses in Canvas and have IC integration two-way. Does anyone have experience with this, or has done this successfully? Thanks!
We have used Canvas and JMC for years. Our teachers are asking about setting up a gradebook sync. Has anyone done this with JMC? If so we have some questions. Do all staff have to be involved in the sync or can we run it for a smaller subset of staff? Do all assignments have to be synced, or can the teacher designate which…
A teacher's grade sync from Canvas to Aspire is resulting in an error saying that the assignment was skipped due to "no due date was set". Yet, in each of those assignments there is a due date. I have had issues with these same assignments because it's been assigned to some students in the section, but not all. when I…
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