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Hi @detour-jenn  Thanks for the feedback. I'm so glad to see this post still getting some mileage and helping others!  Crosslisting helps institutions with LMS integrations to consolidate their instruction to a single Canvas class while retaining the auto-sectioning of student rosters. Our district integrates our SIS with Canvas so our courses are auto-created at the start of our school year and are pre-populated with our SIS rosters. So if your district doesn't connect your SIS with your CanvasLMS then crosslisting really isn't needed. As you mentioned, as students join your course you can just place them in Sections by yourself.   Institutions that do sync their LMS with their SIS gain valuable interoperability features between the two student information & learning technologies. For example, we benefit from such integration services such as our class lists in Canvas being sync'ed with our class rosters in our SIS (PowerSchool) and also Grade Passback from Canvas to PowerSchool as well. As the office enrolls students in our classes in PowerSchool, the student appears in our Canvas Sections automatically and vice versa when the student schedule changes or moves out of our district. The automation is such a time saver.  What we ALSO get with both systems talking together like this is an individual Canvas class for EACH section of students. This might sound nice at first, but what this does is floods the teacher's Canvas Dashboard with LOTS of Canvas class enrollments to sift through when finding a kiddo even with the nicest course cards or clearest naming conventions on your Dash class cards. Crosslisting allows teachers who teach the same subject for multiple class sections (as I do when I teacher many sections of band class as a band teacher or a Math teacher who teaches 3 periods of Alg1) to merge these different rosters of students (all sectioned-out in their individual Canvas classes) into singleton Canvas classes in the same space. However, even though the sections are now sharing the same Canvas class space, the students stay organized in their unique sections as well as retain their unique LMS identifier/tag. This way they can occupy the same Canvas class space (and same modules, class menu Apps/shortcuts/ExternalTools/etc, same announcements/syllabus, etc saving the teacher from re-posting/re-sharing the same content in different classes) while still being able to be sorted by their section.  Does this help answer your question? Todd ... View more

I loved WebDav in Blackboard. It was great being able to update my productivity suite files using local apps without having to take them down and re-upload new versions while at the same time cluttering my file management system in my course. However, I did get use to it and started using GoogleDocs more to adjust. By embedding GoogleDocs of my word files, spreadsheets and presentations directly into Canvas, my students see my third party content embedded in the Canvas course, and I could easily update the content in my GoogleDrive making the changes visible instantly. As far as students needing to download my files so that they have a copy of their own to work on, I use a little tweak to the Google Doc's URL to avoid additional steps for my students. If you change the end of the Google Doc URL (from what it typically is "/edit") to "/copy" and then paste this link in your course, your file opens for your students AND instantly makes a copy of the Google Doc in THEIR Google Drive. This helps you avoid the additional explanation of needing to go to File/Make a Copy for any students new to Google apps. Here's what this revising Google Doc URLs like this looks like:   Another aspect of WebDav I enjoyed was sharing a link to a folder in my Blackboard course CMS and putting that right in my BbCourse to help me file share. Using WebDav, I could move files in and out easily fully knowing that my file changes I'd make for my students in DAV would instantly be seen for the students on the LMS side of Bb. So, yet another adaptation I made after migrating to Canvas life from Blackboard life was using more of the embedded Google Drive folders HTML code in my courses. This allows an entire Google Drive folder and its contents to be seen and scroll'able by the students in my course.  This is what that feature looks like where I have an audio file, below it a table, then below that a Title/LastModified file listing. This is what the embedded Google Drive folder can look like:   This iframe below displays the content of any GoogleDrive folder on a Canvas (or any other HTML environment) page <iframe src="https://drive.google.com/embeddedfolderview?id=PASTEFOLDERIDHERE#list" width="100%" height="250"></iframe>   You can  adjust the height dimensions to heighten the portal that appears on the Canvas page if you'd like. Here's a shot of where I find my GoogleDrive folder ID: Also, by changing the word "#list" to "#grid" your Google Drive content to show up in pictures (similar to course card view on our Dashboards), which can be helpful for emerging readers working in your class to locate your content. This allows me to share any file that I have in my Google Drive with my students like I use to do by linking to a folder in my Blackboard course's CMS to share with my students while having a similar ease of updating that WebDav afforded me, which now is replaced by Google Drive's ease of use (if that makes sense).  I do miss Bb's WebDav a lot, but using Google technologies has helped me a lot along with Canvas' Files drag/drop capability and zip file expansion options, I've been able to find many ways to enjoy a WebDav-free life in Canvas. Just wanted to share some of the work-arounds I've been using. Hope they help. Cheers, Todd ... View more

One  extra feature I'm using that is working out sofarsogood‌ (just created a new hashtag there) is leveraging Assignment Group weighting. So my tests and quizzes, etc are dropped in my assignment group named "evidence" and they're weighted as 90% of the grade at my teaching level as per school district grading policy. My homework assignments and quizzes are dropped into my "homework" assignment group and are weighted as the balance of the grade, 10%. Everything else I create for the kids to complete I drop into practice submissions or extra credit groups, but the main point there is that they are weigthed at 0% of the final grade. So even with full grading turned on for 20point quizzes, for example, that 20 points will not get factored into the grade for the term. It's an extra step to turn on weighting, but it's an additional safeguard I do for some peace of mind.  ... View more

Hi  @Robbie_Grant ‌ Thanks for following up here. I continue to use Screencastify, a third-party screen and webcam recorder that syncs with our students' GoogleApps nicely. It would be really, REALLY great if Canvas devs would consider escalating this concern due to the higher value teachers place on video and web cam media. Younger students in the primary grades using Canvas rely on video and web cam-based learning evidence as their typing skills are still developing. As flash-based tech continues to switch to HTML5-based tech, I'm sure that this step would go a long way for K-12 teachers. Again, thanks for checking in. Todd ... View more

Chris, I believe this is the solution I need to go with, clicking OK. It clones the rubric and then auto-attaches the clone thereby allowing me to check the use for grading box. I didn't really want to create bajoodles of rubric clones but I think this is my only choice. Thanks again for the tip and nudging me to click the OK.  ... View more

I thought that might where it was, too, Chris, but it reminds me that I cannot edit this rubric because I'm using it in different place when I click the edit button.    ... View more

Thanks Chris. I THOUGHT that might be the case, but when I select the rubric that I've searched for, the checkbox is not there for me to select or select again. I think you might be able to see that in the video after I add it and then scroll up and down to look for it. Would it be somewhere else maybe? ... View more

This is my experience. I used two browsers. One to log in as a student and the other as myself in a teacher role. Maybe someone can see where the step is that I am overlooking that is preventing the rubric grade from adding to the actual grade field. Thanks so much.   ... View more

I played around with SCORM a lot before using it in Canvas. I too learned that its use is very limiting in Canvas, so when I designed my SCORM eLearning activities and structured them in my Canvas modules (as well as in my instructional coaching sessions with other teachers where I then showed others how to use SCORM) I purposed SCORM content in Canvas for the limitations Canvas puts on its functionality. For example, the SCORM activities became the substitute for the drill-and-kill or flash-card type of learning activities. They were purposed AS the thing that the learners could repeat as many times as they wanted to prior to the ACTUAL assessment, which was a 1-time quiz, etc.  When using this with module requirements, pre-reqs, and/or badging systems I applied the module requirement to the SCORM assignment as a 'must attempt' not a 'score at least' like I would want to and then placed the 'score at least' requirement on the quiz that followed the SCORM assignment in the module structural sequence. Of course, I added the sequential navigation requirement to the module so students couldn't go out of order and they'd hit all of the triggers such as trying the SCORM activity once and then submitting the quiz, etc so that it would then trigger the badge system to deploy the badge to the user. But yes, I hear you loud and clear when it comes to SCORM in Canvas. Not very flexible, so I just made a shift in how I approached purposing of the SCORM content and that helped me get through. Not sure if this will help you, but from one SCORM user to another, I wanted to let you know I can relate and wish more flexibility was given to SCORM content. Cheers. ... View more

Same here. I check this box each time then search for my rubric. When I click the Use This Rubric button for the rubric I find it's like I never clicked the box to begin with. Very odd. So my grading experience in SpeedGrader is that I check the different fields in the rubric, it adds the points up every time and totals the points for the rubric, too. The only part it does not do is then transcribe those rubric points from the bottom of the rubric where is reads something like "19 out of 20 points" and puts that "19" up in the normal grade field when I save the rubric. I think am missing something or searchable rubrics might be working fully in order to add the points in the grade field for the assignment tool. ... View more

I've found that when you cross-list Class1 SectionA into Class2 with SectionB so that Class2 now contains SectionA and SectionB of students, Class1 disappears into Canva'oblivion. Along with it goes its content, assignments, quizzes, files, etc... the works. So at the start of the year before any students in either Section do any submissions I usually advise copying the content from Class1 into Class2 prior to the cross-listing process. This way Class2 becomes (more or less) a new working master course for the year. Once the content is structured and published the way I want it in Class2 (my new working master for the year) I throw the switch to publish the entire class. When I have DE-cross-listed classes, for example if I were to send SectionB of students back into their original Class2, Canvas would resurrect my Class2 from Canva'oblivion and would reveal all of my content and so on like it never disappeared.   Another scenario that prevented an edu-heart attack happened one year around November when a teacher cross-listed a Class3 SectionC into Class4 SectionD (thinking that all submissions and assignment tools would simply travel with the SectionC kids and rebuilt themselves in Class4, the destination course -- spoiler alert: NOPE) the teacher realized that they lost about 2.5 months of student submissions!  EEP!  However, when I DE-cross-listed the SectionC sending it back into its original Class3, everything restored, student submissions, teacher feedback, grades, comments, etc -- everything... like it never was cross-listed in the first place. Feel free to use these cross-listing resources for more info about cross-listing and DE-crosslisting process to share with teachers if you find them helpful. ... View more

After talking to our users I've found that they are adding colleagues to their courses as "Teacher" roles to have full course access for whatever reasons (online observation, resource sharing, etc). However, this could create some course role confusion (such as for admin course walk-throughs, etc) when it could appear as if there is a co-teaching situation when, in fact, there none. To help clear this up I created a clone of the Teacher role and named it "Collaborator." This allows teachers to enroll colleagues in their courses with full Teacher privs but without having anyone see another person listed as Teacher leaving the true teacher with that title role for the course.  ... View more

Kona, I'm trying to use the rubric for grading my assignments but when the different areas of the rubric are selected and the rubric totals the points, the points don't add into the points earned box. I need to type them in there myself, an extra step. Do you know if I might be missing something? ... View more

I wouldn't know much more than that, plus, since it's a free service I'm not sure how many features or file space it would allow. Have you checked to see if your access to your stg server is available? ... View more

Have you considered trying to restore your Bb file in a free Bb account over at coursesites.com? It's similar to Instructure's free "light" version of Canvas over at canvas.instructure.com. Creating a coursesites account there and creating your first blank course couldn't be easier. It has been years since I've used my coursesites account but when I did I was able to access Export/Import in the course control panel. If you try this route drop me a reply as you're able to let me know if you were able to bring in your Bb course archive into your blank still or if they took that feature away. ~ Todd ... View more

One of the features of a previous LMS we used at our school that I miss in Canvas is "User Notifications Override" on course-level announcements. It is purposed to prevent this very concern. However, if you are concerned about students missing the communication of an important assignment then you need not worry; Canvas displays this in multiple places including the Dashboard "To-Do" list        -- in Course Card view: at far right when in full screen view. Smaller screens moves the To-do list under the course cards        -- in User Activity view: same position the "Coming Up" list - things that are on the horizon for students        -- simply below the "To-do" list in both views mentioned above. inside of the course         --  in the course to the right you'll see both the To-do and Coming Up lists there as well. Calendar Tool         -- if students aren't sure if something is due they can always check the calendar tool turning on and off different course calendars as they need to read the calendars relevant to their success.   Just a small reminder for the teacher role with all of the above: discussions, assignments and quiz tools posted on these areas only if the teacher remembers to put a due date in the discussion, assignment or quiz tool settings.    So even if a student has these notifications turned off, there are plenty of ways for students to find the due date information just by looking at their screen when they log in or visit the course.   Todd  PS -- I'm not that sure of the age of the student but another option you might want to explore if there is a supportive family life is helping the family create an observer account for the student. This way, as you help the parent/guardian create this you can make sure they set up their notification settings correctly to have Canvas send THEM upcoming due dates and even announcements if the student doesn't have these set up correctly. ... View more