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Steven_S
Steven S
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Community Champion
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Associate History Professor - South Louisiana Comm. College
Joined:
Jul 3, 2015 5:08:55 PM
Posts:
856
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133
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514
Bio:
I have taught myself how to use canvas to turn my F2F history courses into QM compliant online and hybrid courses. However, I am constantly trying to make my courses easier for my students to use, and using this site to learn new tricks to work around problems that cause students to struggle.

Most Liked Posts

This idea is to add the ability to download each student's responses to essay questions on a quiz formatted the same way we already bulk download all assignment submissions.    In online courses, ...
Likes: 42
These are all good priorities.  Still serving as a roadblock, however, for new quizzes with essay questions, are: New-Quizzes-Grading-Indication  and New-Quizzes-respect-hide-grades and New-Quizzes-sh...
Likes: 9
Unfortunately that does not yet seem to be a part of New Quizzes, but there is an idea conversation open where you can share your interest in having this feature added: https://community.canvaslms.com...
Likes: 8
We have definitely not adopted another platform for communication.  How annoying would it be to have to go elsewhere for announcements!  The whole point of an LMS is to have all the course content and...
Likes: 7
There are several added flexibilities I would like to see added to the late penalty policy, as a correction to the apparent unfairness described by Timothy Lim, "The automatic late submission pen...
Likes: 7

Most Recent Posts

Problem statement: The modules page has several auto-scrolls that happen when it reloads. It loads all of the modules, it scrolls to where you last were, it scrolls to the top of the page, and it scr...
Nov 12, 2025 22:39 PM
Problem statement: The course settings include a single default time option with a list of any hour on the hour, and one option set already to 11:59pm. Teachers have many reasons for setting different...
Nov 11, 2025 12:37 PM
Problem statement: The times of courses that have synchronous meetings are different in different sections and semesters. this can result in the need for different to-do, available, due, and lock time...
Nov 11, 2025 12:25 PM
Problem statement: Currently course copy allows a date shift to a new section that tends to shift the first Monday to the first Monday, instead of the first day to the first day. The shifted days end ...
Nov 11, 2025 12:02 PM
Problem statement: When teachers copy individual activities from the drawer that opens to "copy to..." a course, the resulting copy has the to-do or due date of the original. This can result i...
Nov 11, 2025 11:43 AM

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