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How do I delete a student that is no longer in my course?
That depends on your institution! Some institutions do not allow teachers to remove students from course sites, relying instead on data feeds from the Registrar's Office (or other enrollment system) to update enrollments on a set cadence. It may also depend on your course type - at some institutions, courses and enrollments that originate in the Registrar's Office cannot be manually updated by the teacher but enrollments in custom course sites can. You can check this guide on removing a student from a course and if you don't have the options displayed there (or you have institutional guidance to not manually remove students from courses), you'll want to reach out to your institution's Canvas admins for further guidance.
We're working on improving preferred name visibility in Canvas and have been trying to explore all possibilities for showing preferred names in the roster and/ or gradebook. We understand that according to this help documentation, short name maps to Canvas display name. This documentation and this Canvas community…
We use course pacing to manage due dates, because we run ~20 something courses each quarter and manually setting due dates would be a nightmare. Several courses have two core topics. We want to allow students to choose which of these they will pursue first. Is there any way to configure multiple course paces with different…
Hoping someone can explain for me. We're using pacing to avoid manually dating regular assignments each quarter, but the dates I see are based on when the course was instantiated, while students see dates based on when they were added to the course by [backend software I don't know anything about, presumably]. If I set…
Has anyone else had issues with an influx of duplicate users in Canvas? Ours is currently in the form of an email that already exists, becoming a new user - and not automatically merging with the user ID with the same email that also is linked to our SIS ID correctly as well. For example, user 1 is xyz@gmail.com without a…
Canvas Portfolios provide a powerful platform for students to document their learning journey, reflect on their progress, and showcase competencies. However, in programs where multiple educators are involved in assessment—such as team teaching, moderation, or competency-based evaluation—there are important questions about…
