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We frequently run into a situation where our SIS data is unable to remove a student from a course. This happens because we allow teachers the ability to create sections within courses. To remove a student from a course they must deleted from every section that they are in -- and because the manually-created sections used…
Wednesday, July 10 at 3:00pm Abstract / Session Overview Do you use Workday Student as your SIS? Join in a group discussion to share ideas and common practices when using Workday Student as an SIS integrated with Canvas. Details In this session, attendees held a group discussion on using Workday Student as an SIS with…
Terminology Crossover VETTrak:Canvas:Canvas Guides/Notes:ProgramCourse*How do I add a course in an account as an admin? Unit or TaskModule*What are Modules? How do I add a module? OccurrenceSection*How do I add a section to a course as an admin? * - These elements must be created in Canvas before you sync Important Links /…
For those that integrate with JR Plus or Vettrak Cloud , we've collated these resources to provide a one-stop-shop for you. * - We also suggest reading the following articleConsiderations for Course Creation in Vocational Education and discussing this with your CSM to ensure you maximise both Canvas and JR Plus as much as…
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…
Background For the past several years, Instructure has been constantly working to support more and more SIS integrations. For most Canvas teachers and admins (on existing Instructure supported SIS integrations) there has been limited UI changes and improvements . We understand the importance of SIS Integrations for each…
I'm working on integrating Canvas with another system via the API. I'd like to bring back an enrollment record ID from the other system and put it on the Canvas enrollment....but there doesn't seem to be anywhere to put it. Am I missing something?
I'm working on integrating Canvas with another system, and I'd like to bring back an enrollment record ID from the other system and put it on the Canvas enrollment. Is sis_import_id an appropriate place, or is that supposed to be used for something else (and if so what)? Forgive my ignorance—I'm not a developer (using an…
With the code below attempting to send a zip file to the sis_imports API, I am getting a PowerShell error, "Invoke-WebRequest : The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send." $URL = "https://$APIDomain/api/v1/accounts/1/sis_imports" $headers = @{"Authorization"="Bearer "+$Token} $InFile =…
Background For many of our K12 teachers in Canvas, SIS assignment and grade syncing is one of the most appreciated pieces of functionality in Canvas. With that being said, it can also be a very large source of frustration for teachers who are unaware of how to configure their Canvas courses properly for Assignment syncing.…
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