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BrianLester
Brian Lester
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I teach math and support peers in using academic technology, especially Canvas.

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Hi, You mention 'importing course into a new shell each semester'.  So you have separate courses for each semester. Course content is transfered in the course import process- but student data is not. ...
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If you use blueprint courses it's worth bearing in mind that associated courses must be in the same or lower subaccount than the blueprint Additionally, if your changes tempt you to delete a blueprint...
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Hi, Look at how canvas presents the option for dropping x lowest scores you won't be able to guarantee that the score dropped is from one of your 15 point discussions if there are 30 point discussions...
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It's likely that the owner of the webpage, in this case CNN, is choosing not to allow iframe embedding. Owners of webpages can do this and unfortunately I'm not aware of any workaround in such cases.
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I've set some courses up to 10000MB with no problems...Don't know if there's a hard limit...
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If you are an admin you can go to Settings, Click the reports tab, and choose User Course Access Log
Jul 24, 2024 12:58:27 PM
Do you mean participants in a single course? Clicking on New Analytics in course Navigation and then on the student tab. You can download this as a csv by clicking the download button. You can then fi...
Jul 24, 2024 12:51:47 PM
Can you use a parent course with most of the navigation tabs hidden? Use API calls to hide tabs in the relevant courses. In any solution teachers would be able to make the hidden tabs visible
Jul 11, 2024 9:39:28 PM
There's only one option for weighting assignment groups for any one course - you cannot apply different weights for sections
Jul 11, 2024 9:23:19 PM
Unfortunately there isn't an easy way to do this; Canvas does allow 'calculated columns' in the gradebook...
Jul 11, 2024 9:07:26 PM

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