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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
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850
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133
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514
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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, ...
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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...
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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: Discussion checkpoints allow canvas to separately measure initial posts and also replies to those initial posts. In practice, the replies may happen at a later time, and/or from a d...
Oct 04, 2025 00:06 AM
Problem statement: Mission US history games can provide interactive experiences with active learning for students in history classes. However, they are on a third party platform that requires a log-i...
Oct 03, 2025 23:27 PM
Problem statement: Currently, attendance can be set to measure whether students viewed a page, or participated in an activity. New quizzes is detected as a page view, rather than a participation, and ...
Aug 27, 2025 21:04 PM
Problem statement: The current student progress display of the modules page shows teachers what each student has remaining to complete, but it does not provide a summary for the class.  Analytics prov...
Aug 27, 2025 20:46 PM
Problem statement: The current student progress display of the modules page shows teachers what each student has remaining to complete, but it does not provide a summary for the class. Analytics provi...
Aug 27, 2025 20:41 PM

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