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Course Pacing (Feature Preview)

This group is for institutions using the Course Pacing Feature Preview. Engage with our product team and share your feedback on this feature.

This group is for institutions using the Course Pacing Feature Preview. Engage with our product team and share your feedback on this feature. View expectations for participating in this user group.

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General Timeline

2022-04-14

The Course Pacing Feature Preview is available in the beta environment.

2022-04-27

The Course Pacing Feature Preview is available in the production environment.

2022-05-25

Blackout Dates available in Production.

2022-07-25

Section Pacing is available in the production environment.

2022-08-17

Blueprint and Course Copy support available in production.

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Course Pacing feature development is ongoing and updated every two weeks. For the latest updates, view the Change Log link in the sidebar.


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Schools that utilizes Course Pacing are getting a broken page error. When I try to replicate the error, my view does not show the broken page error. Also, when I act as the user, it also renders the view properly for me. Is there a local setting that...

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Hello,I apologize if this question has already been answered. I teach at a technical college that’s open entry/open exit where students are assigned course end dates. In the Pace Plan LTI, we had the ability to set end-dates and the LTI would calcula...

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Ideally for us, we would like a teacher to set how many hours it should take for a student to complete each module.  The teacher could then input the number of hours that a student is in class each day, and how many days per week a student is attendi...

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Hi all, I had a couple of questions regarding customizing the course pacing tool: We don’t set due dates for our quizzes. Is there any way to remove them from the pacing list, and just have discussions and assignments include due dates?We set our dis...

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I want to express my gratitude to this group for all of the great feedback you've provided since we've released Course Pacing. Your input has been so important to the development process.  I wanted to remind you all here (as stated in the Change Log)...

Instructure Instructure
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At the end of a set time frame for course pacing does the course automatically diable? If not is there a way to implement this feature? We have a year-round class in which students have 90 consecutive days to complete. We need the course or access to...

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Instructors often find it tedious to change due dates for their courses each term.  We have fixed term dates, rather than a flex date model.  We are looking at adopting course pacing as a means forr faculty to established due dates based on time elap...

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We are using course pacing and really like it but we would love to add pages to the pacing. You can mark a page by adding to the student "to-do" see pic. You can also add it as a module requirement and have students mark it as done. I feel like if yo...

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From this documentation:https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Course-Pacing-Feature-Preview/Course-Pacing-Feature-Overview/ta-p/519334Under Feature/Integration Setup, it says:"Course Pacing involves the Course Pacing feature preview, which can be allowe...

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We are currently utilizing the Canvas API to handle grade passback between Canvas and our SIS. There are certain assignment configurations that present challenges in how we code our grade passback, but we've learned to use the Assignment Overrides to...

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I have set up Course pacing in my course and I realised that I need to set up a separate course pace for a student or a section to meet their special needs but I don't seem to be able to do so. Is that true that once the course pacing is set up at th...

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I tried using Course pacing in my sandbox and now I am wondering how to turn it off. E.g., what if a course being used with Course Pacing no longer needs it as the mode of delivery has changed? 

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I'm getting ready to test this now, but I was curious if anyone else had tested course pacing who is also syncing grades back to a Skyward grade book via an API? I'm wondering how (or if) Skyward will accept assignment grades where assignment due dat...

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I’m happy to share that some big changes are coming to beta on February 20. Instructors using Course Pacing will be able to edit and adjust individual student paces, allowing for more flexibility and even greater personalization for students. As a bo...

Instructure Instructure
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Hello! I'm very new to Canvas and very Excited about the Course Pacing option! My understanding is that it is still under development so I'm not sure if I'm missing something or if it hasn't evolved yet.  Is it possible for the Admin and Teacher to s...

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Without "course pacing" you have 3 date options for each assignment:Due DateAvailable From DateUntilWith "course pacing" for the entire course there is:Start DateEnd DateI think I understand the Start Date. It's the date given to each individual on t...

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Hello all!Last week I was attempting to showcase the Course Pacing feature to a group of VT faculty. Unfortunately when I went to showcase it, the Course Pacing button was missing from the Modules tool.In troubleshooting, I found out that the Course ...

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Apologies for starting a new topic, but felt it was needed. When researching the Course Pacing tool, I could have sworn I saw a guide that had a "link" indicator, when setting Course Pacing, to combine all items within the module, then allow a durati...

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Hi all, I started testing the Corse Pacing, but it looks like it only applies to due dates and not the From/Until dates, is that correct? So can it be that the assignments will be open and accessible throughout the duration of the course?Any plans to...

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Our organization is considering implementing Canvas Catalog with Course Pacing. My understanding is that Course Catalog allows you to define a time range (e.g. 150 days, 1 month, etc.) in which the student can complete the course for credit; however,...

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After watching the Course Pacing feature video, my understanding is that Canvas will auto-compress the assignment due dates if a student enrolls at a time where there are fewer days to complete the course based off the end date than allowed for in th...

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Currently testing the capabilities of Course Pacing in my Sandbox. The course Term is set to FY2023 and dates have been set at the admin level to indicate July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. Participation is set to Course.  When entering Course Pacin...

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I am trying out the new Course Pacing feature and am getting a "Publishing Error" and cannot actually get the Course Pacing enabled.  Is anyone else seeing this problem and does anyone have any suggestions?Thanks. 

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I noticed when Course Pacing is enabled, I can no longer assign assignments to specific sections of a course. My plan was to use sections to only display specific assignments to specific sections. It works fine with Course Pacing off, but I lose the ...

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I enabled Course Pacing, then deleted a Module, and changed some assignments. The Course Pacing shows the original content that was deleted and does not show the new content. I tried to disable the course pacing and re-enable, but that still didn't u...

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Blueprint sync and Course Copy support are available now on beta! This functionality will be in the production and test environments late afternoon (mountain time) August 17.Course Pacing settings are preserved and copied when course content is impor...

Instructure Instructure
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Hi community! In case you missed my latest Project Update - July 22, 2022, I'll go ahead and introduce myself. I'm Allison Howell, a new product manager with Instructure. I wanted to put a call in for volunteers to chat with me and our team's product...

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Hi all,  I'm Allison Howell, the new product manager for the team that manages the Course Pacing feature. I'll be taking over communication from David Lyons moving forward, but I wanted to publicly say that I'm extremely grateful to him for all of th...

Instructure Instructure
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We have been testing the new course pacing feature and are very excited by its potential. Please pass on our gratitude to your development team for working on this great new feature!I've been keeping an eye on the change log and various documentation...

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We have an already existing faculty training course, and I would like to turn on Course Pacing because the enrollment for the faculty is rolling. They are added to the course when they first get hired as part of the on-boarding process.Right now, non...

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