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SIS ID is the unique ID that Canvas imports from PowerSchool....how can I export SIS ID from PowerSchool so that I can troubleshoot users and data issues?

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Hello Canvas users!  We are in the process of moving to a new SIS, CampusNexus Student (by Campus Management) and are looking for fellow users to connect with. We have some specific questions about Grade Passback, but would love to connect more gener...

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This is part III and the final step for passing grades back to PowerSchool with PowerTeacher Pro (PTP). Part I outlines how to import assignment groups from PowerSchool, and Part II outlines properly setting up an assignment for grade passback (GPB)....

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If your institution has PowerTeacher Pro (PTP) in place, you can set up an assignment to be sent back to PowerSchool (which is a SIS). However, you must first specify which assignment(s) in the course should be sent to PowerSchool as part of the grad...

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If your institution is using PowerTeacher Pro in the PowerSchool student information system (SIS), you can import assignment groups from PowerTeacher Pro. Assignment groups are collected and verified every 24 hours to be imported into Canvas.If you c...

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In the new grade book instructors are able to auto apply a certain grade for a missing submission (zero in this case).  When the assignment syncs to Infinite Campus through GBP the zero does not transfer even though it appears in the Canvas grade boo...

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As the department's assessment coordinator, I would dream that my colleagues could use outcomes and link them to specific assignments/quizzes/projects in Canvas. However, we've run into the following problems:1. In terms of the connection between out...

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Anyone having issues with Canvas grade passback to PowerTeacher / PowerSchool?  Since Monday our grades are not syncing from Canvas to PowerTeacher.  Just wondering if we are alone.

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I added a student with a letter missing from his name (typo). Can I fix? Or do I have to delete and then re-add the student to the course?

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Hello everyone - my name is Ryan, I work at the University of Texas at Arlington and we are in the process of implementing Canvas.Currently, we have Blackboard as our LMS, and we worked with Blackboard to create a mass grade extraction process to tak...

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Within canvas, there should be a tool or setting where admin can pull all sections of one course together then allow for admin to sort the classes by instructors or students. This will enable us to pull grades much quicker when there are a ton of dif...

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We imported categories from PowerTeacher Pro and synced grades with no problem.Now we are in a new term. We copy our courses from term to term and adjust due dates, etc. When I just did a course copy, the PowerTeacher Pro categories from the copied c...

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I tried syncing my Canvas gradebook with our new PowerSchool system, and it's a mess.  Grades came out completely incorrect in the PTP gradebook.  It turns out, PowerSchool only imported grades from 9/25 and later; anything in my gradebook before 9/2...

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A couple of our teachers have noticed that sometimes we set the Due Date for an assignment to something like 10/5/18 and then when we look in our PowerTeacher Pro gradebooks, the assignment is dated 10/6/18.  Any idea why this is happening or how we ...

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Now that we have been using Canvas for a few years, is there a best practice to archive old courses or at least hide them from all of the lists available. 

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Some of our teachers include comments with their associated grades.  They are inquiring if it is possible to have comments associated with their respective grades be included with the grade passback sync.  

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I sync'd all of my assignments from Canvas to IC, but not all of them had a grade entered.  Is there a way to sync the grade after the assignment has been exported and categorized in IC?

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Why are the classes back to back? It's like I'm drowning in class work with no breaks and I'm getting frustrated and bored with this way of going about online classes. I'd like at least one week breaks in between every two classes, sense its one clas...

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Hi Everyone,I have put a ticket in on this but thought I would share with the community, fyi.We are integrated with PowerTeacher Pro. Recently I changed the following Admin SIS Integration Setting to default to YES (by selecting it):Default SIS Sync ...

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Okay, our district is just getting our feet wet with Canvas grades into IC.  So, of course, I have a few questions.Here is the biggest one so farWe are using SGR grading and have set up a rubric to grade student work, will those individual pieces of ...

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I am wondering if anyone using PowerSchool SIS has tried using the Canvas Roll Call Attendance tool? Does it handle attendance the way that PowerSchool understands it?

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Hello!  Can teachers import future assignments from Canvas to SIS for informational purposes for parents, without it importing as a zero grade?  We would like teachers to include big projects or assignments that are coming up throughout the year when...

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Hi All, Just wondering, if you could have any tool integrate with canvas (high tech or low tech) what would it be?Miranda 

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Hi,I'm new to this group and I just starting teaching my first Canvas course today after having used Etudes for several years.My question is, how do I stop getting emails every time a student posts in the discussion board?  I thought I turned off the...

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I am doing the yellow belt training and attempting to submit my syllabus, but I am having multiple issues. I cannot seem t get the main area to populate with the file I am uploading. All it show is the link to the file. Also I do not see where I can ...

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Hi everyone,Since this is our first year with the SIS integration, I just want to be sure I'm not doing double work. For example, when courses are created in PS, they are pushed and created in Canvas, along with any enrollments.  Once a course is co...

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Seems obvious but preview does not show such:  In a quiz with both multiple choice and multiple select, does the quiz not indicate the question type?  If it doesn't, which would seem to be pretty brain-dead, then we need to type in "select all that a...

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I don't see an option to sync to SIS (powerschool) with the new gradebook. I see an export and import option.

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Hi, do you know if any work been done on integration with Canvas, SITS? Specifically marks pass through to SITS then presenting in eVision?ThanksGill

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I'm new to this group and looking forward to learning more about career advising.  

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