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My nightly sync from Canvas to PowerSchool is not working. I have linked my categories between them and if I do a manual grade sync it works fine with no errors. I checked the setting in grade sync and the setting is enabled, but in the history there is no attempt that it tried to sync. There are no errors saying there was…
What do I do when I am in the middle of an assignment, and it will not let me move on? A pop-up box came up at the top of the screen telling me there was a problem and to relaunch. I did that and the system is still locked up. I cannot continue. What do I do?
If I grade an assignment as 0 and missing, then when I finally grade the assignment does Canvas override the 0 grade? I just spent over an hour going through each class and putting 0 and missing for each assignment. Then I posted the grades in Canvas. Then I looked again, and nothing overrode the zeros to my knowledge. So…
Wondering how to view the submissions from students submitting assignments in canvas MATLAB autograder? The normal speed grader does not show anything for students that have submitted their answers, nor does the download submission button show up below where it would normally be present. Any thoughts? Additionally, it…
When I turn on Nightly Sync for Canvas to Skyward, does it sync ungraded or unposted assignments as well?
Are any other Infinite Campus users experiencing issues with grade passback? Several of our jobs are randomly failing with this error: Vendor Key or Secret not found or Vendor Key is inactive Retrying the failed sync job will most of the time allow it to complete successfully. The failures seem to be random and…
My passback has been working until this week. When I go to sync the assignments, the assignment title will show up in my Aspen gradebook, but not the grade I have assigned to each student. The error I receive is com.follett.fss.vithar.core.ValidationException: A is not a valid value for java.math.BigDecimal. When I look up…
Following the online directions, my assignment is ONLINE submission, Past the Due date, but still does not auto fill all unsubmitted items as "MISSING" I can get it to work if I manually score each students' work as "MISSING" on the drop down tab, but the gradebook does NOT auto score missing work as MISSING. What do I…
I keep getting these two errors when I try to sync Canvas to PowerSchool. What am I doing wrong? Grade exchange job failed. Status in SIS: failed - producer_failure - 5d6d7479-e010-4aff-a2eb-938bf33c4370 - Non-retryable failure to process grades exchange.: null - Canvas encountered a failure producing grade data Grade…
Grade sync is not an option for a quiz a teacher on my campus created. I have checked assignment categories and dates. Do all students have to complete the quiz for it to sync?
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