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It appears that a “shared to course” item bank in a course will also copy over to another course shell and will maintain that “shared to course” status in both course shells. Great news.
However, even though the item bank is shared with the course, the instructor must be assigned as a Teacher or TA role in both the original course and the course that content was copied to in order to view the “shared to course” item bank in the course that the content was copied into.
From my perspective, these “shared to course” item banks are really not associated with courses as I thought would be the case, but are still associated with users.
Am I missing a step or permission setting somewhere?
Is this how the “shared to course” feature is intended to be used? If so, why would instructors use this share option as opposed to just sharing the item bank with another user? We were hoping that the “shared to course” feature would allow item banks to be associated with courses that have been copied into future course shells which would allow new instructors to access the item banks shared with the course they are teaching.
I had a report from an instructor that all of the item banks she made in a course were not in This Course. So, I tried it for myself and find that everything I created goes to All Banks. Am I missing something here? How does an item bank get to This Course? The documentation reads, "The This Course filter displays existing item banks within the current course."
Upon further investigation, it seems This Course serves the exact same function as Banks Shared to Course. If they both include all banks shared to a course, why have them both? Is there some way they are differentiated?
After 13 emails back and forth with Canvas support, I was finally told, "The backend work for this filter to include item banks shared to users in the course or created by users in the course has not been completed. Until this is completed the workaround is to share the banks to the course." So, why even put out a filter that is not working? When I asked that, they replied, "There is not currently a timeline or ETA for when this work will be completed."
Thank you for your comments and patience, we've identified the issue and are developing a way to prevent this issue from occurring in the future. The fix should be released in about a week. I will update here once it is good to go. Thanks!
I was just wondering if there is any update. I am running into issues with this filter still and do not see any differentiation between "This Course" or "Shared with this Course", which sucks because TAs cannot see Item Banks in the "Shared with this Course" filter AND if TAs use the migrate feature to turn a Quiz to a New Quiz, the included Question Groups will become Item Banks the TAs then cannot see!
