About

jsowalsk
Jessica Sowalsky
Rank:
Community Champion
Title:
Enterprise Learning Technology Systems Manager
Joined:
Oct 6, 2016 9:20:57 AM
Posts:
1468
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56
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3265
Bio:
Jessica Sowalsky is the Enterprise Learning Technology Systems Manager at the University of Maryland, College Park, and holds a Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in E-Learning. She is the Manager of Canvas and Canvas Catalog, the University's enterprise LMS and non-credit course platform.

Most Liked Posts

We would like the ability to masquerade or act as students in Canvas Catalog for the following reasons:   1. To diagnose issues with logging in and accessing their In Progress or Completed courses 2. ...
Likes: 162
At our university, we have a web accessibility policy in place for all external/public facing web pages and websites to become accessible. What this means is that the errors for accessibility need to ...
Likes: 143
It would be useful for us if we could enable students to see exactly which questions they got partially or fully wrong. We use Assignment Grading rubrics and the SpeedGrader to individually input the ...
Likes: 109
We would like to see enrollments reflected the same way they are in Catalog as they are in Canvas. When a student is removed from a course in Canvas this is not reflected back in Catalog. A way to fix...
Likes: 92
If you are enrolled in a Catalog course and you remove your enrollment via Canvas that information isn't passed to Catalog and so it will look like you 1) never were enrolled, or 2) look like you&...
Likes: 86

Most Recent Posts

@DrTerriC Are these updates only for people who are currently using the integration or?
Sep 11, 2025 13:39 PM
@valentinesking Thank you for the insight.
Sep 10, 2025 18:10 PM
@annalindsay Since we currently do not test anything in production until its perfected, is there a way to make an exception? Is there is a reason why this is being changed from working in beta?
Sep 10, 2025 10:12 AM
@Hildi_Pardo I second your question, since it would be amazing to stay in beta or test and stick after the refresh.
Sep 10, 2025 07:40 AM
@hechla  Here are my two cents: since it is a PDF, you can use Adobe Acrobat to download the transcript and edit it. It is not a great solution, but it works.   Jessica
Sep 04, 2025 07:38 AM

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