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Is anyone using "Sandboxes" with their teachers?  If so, I'm interested in knowing how you create and manage them?  Do you populate them with templates or sample content?  Can teachers have more than ...
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We are a K-12 institution that operates on a standard 4 quarter school year.   This is our first year using Canvas.  We're having some difficulty figuring out how to get quarter grades which can be lo...
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So my institution - 55k students, 8k teachers, and 136k parents have just started using Grading Periods.  So far so good until we just moved from one grading period to another.  We learned the hard wa...
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Are there there training resources available for teachers to learn how to use Quizzes.next?   I have found some documentation in the guides, but none of it is labeled, "How to build a quiz with Quizze...
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This is a great discussion, but what's interesting is that we still have presentations called ".... Designing for mobile devices".    In my K12 school district we have measured that nearly 50% of stud...
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We set default notifications through the API.  This ensures that Parents / observers get "announcements" by default.  Everything else is set to opt in.  We run the API on a periodic basis to ensure th...
Feb 19, 2019 8:00:03 AM
Thanks eallen.  For us, having the override not carry to total calculation is not a problem.  Other institutions may have a different opinion.  
Feb 7, 2019 6:36:35 AM
This looks like a nice release.   One additional question about the Gradebook override:  will the override work for grading periods?   Meaning I create Quarter 1, Quarter 2 etc.   At the conclusion of...
Feb 5, 2019 10:54:23 AM
Hi Diane,HCPSS does not permit teachers to create course shells.  If they want a class that is not connected to the SIS, then we have a course request form that they fill out.  The items on the reques...
Nov 29, 2018 11:24:25 AM
This makes a lot of sense.  Many, if not most of our teachers are using images on their course cards now and the color overlay just makes it look odd.   
Nov 1, 2018 8:25:12 AM

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