Today was our first day back with teachers and our 2nd year of Canvas Implementation in grades 6-12.
Teachers still do not have their 2017-2018 Courses because of the finger pointing going on between Canvas, Clever and Infinite Campus.
Certainly other schools are in this situation. How do you handle terms in your SIS import? We talked to one school in our state that ditched Clever altogether and wrote their own script for Pete's sake! We are resorting to an import with no terms defined (hopefully active for teachers tomorrow) and we may have to manually enter terms. We've worked closely with our rep and Canvas support. They say their hands are tied. Clever support says it's the fault of Canvas. Infinite Campus is infinitely hard to work with when it comes to collaboration with Canvas.....especially grade passback, right?
So, what gives? Why am I working a 16 hour day to ensure that my teachers can get into their classes in time for the first day of school with students?
Hello,
Our school district is running a Canvas pilot at our two middle schools with a select group of teachers for the 2017-2018 school year, with the hope of going 3-12 next year (3rd - 12th grade are all 1:1). So far our biggest hang-up has been getting Clever to pull the correct fields from Infinite Campus in order to sync courses w/terms to Canvas. As this is a pilot, we are not under a specific timeline to get Canvas up and running, but we appear to have everything else in place.
One Question for Lisa, and perhaps some information to share:
Lisa, you say that you have resorted to importing courses w/o defined terms. Are your courses falling into Canvas' "Default Term"? If so, are you then modifying the default term to manually create terms? Also, do your students (in and out) still sync to Canvas w/o terms... more specifically will students still sync if the default term has been modified to manually create terms?
This is the closest I have gotten in terms of syncing terms to Canvas. We have not yet loaded these fields into Clever because we sync other systems via Clever, and the last time we loaded term fields into Clever, we had to pause all syncing, as our courses went blank.
What field path(s) have you tried to pull in Clever to sync terms to Canvas?
Thank you,
-Jeremy
That is so interesting Jeremy. We were told by Clever that Campus does not pass the Period field over. Ours is blank. We did everything else you mentioned. We sent it as is and our teachers rename their classes and sections in Canvas. But, now I wonder why you are able to get Period in Clever from Campus. It never ends 
We also mapped our student emails to our logins.
Laurel,
This is what it looks like on the teacher side:
We are not getting the period into Canvas from the Period Field, rather, we getting the period to populate via the "Name" field in Clever. This is a custom mapping field (See below)
You can see below that there is more to it than just a period... but it works:)
So, the "1" below in "1-1610" is the period and 1610 is the section number.
I hope this helps.
Disclaimer! - We are new to Canvas, and I am by no means an expert (more like a total novice fumbling my way). We are just doing the best we can. So far, this appears to be working...
Thanks,
-Jeremy
Yes; we had hoped to get it mapped that way but our Clever is blank for period. See below --
Laurel,
FYI... We are not getting the course period from Clever's "Period" field. We are getting it as part of Clever's Course "Name" field (See Below)
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