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Before I ask for Roll Call to be turned on... Are badges assigned daily or does assigning once mean it appears every day? We are looking at using this feature for noting daily when a student is attending class in person or online, with a badge for each of those, so that we can use it for contact tracing.  ... View more

We have been set up with LDAP for over 18 months and it is working fine. For the past few months though, the "Test LDAP Authentication" feature on the Authentication page has failed to bind. Logins are flowing normally and have been. The problem we are having is that when Canvas Support gets a call about a login problem, we go around again with support saying "logins are failing, the LDAP test says so" followed by us saying "no there not, there's a few thousand people logging in and out all the time". I check our logins both on and off our campus network, no problems we can see.  So my question is this: Does the "Test LDAP Authentication" cause problems for anyone else? Anyone seeing an error  on the test when there is no problem with LDAP login?  I would like to pin down whether this is something in our setup that is causing a problem with the test or if something changed with the test in the past 4 months.  ... View more

Does anyone know how to find who manually added a student to a course. This comes up pretty often for me and I don't see anything in reporting or the APIs that will tell me. I see the sis_import information when there is an import, but not user information when a manual add is done.  I've searched the forum and can't find anything related to the topic. Any help would be greatly appreciated.  ... View more

I am doing my due diligence looking for e-Portfolio options that work both with and without Canvas. I am looking at Canvas ePortfolio tool but would like to find what other options are out there. I know about Porfolium, Foliotech, and Digication. Portfolium integrates with LMS, don't know about the other two yet. I am looking for a robust tool that will allow faculty, carreer development staff, mentors, and future employers to see and assist with the portfolios.  Does anyone know of any other vendors and whether or not they integrate with Canvas? Any recommendations, good or bad, from personal experience would be helpful. ... View more

I am doing some research on the best options for limiting access to courses at the end of the term for both faculty and students. Right now we are using course end dates that are set 2 weeks after the actual term and course end dates in our SIS. With Academic Services wanting grades in the SIS as soon as possible after they are due, that 2 week time frame is causing some monumental headaches. We pull, faculty still have access and make changes, we pull again, and round and round. At the same time, students need to be able to see grades and submissions after the course ends in case of grade disputes. So we are looking at setting the course end dates for midnight the day grades are due from faculty and clearing the check box for the "Restrict student access after the course end date" setting for our main account. Our hope is that faculty will have the opportunity to enter the grades, we will be able to pull grades the day after the course end date, and students and faculty will be able to view the course for as long as they need. Hunting around on the community, I have found a few different things about what it means to conclude a course. It is clear that the intention is that the course becomes view only for faculty and students. Faculty can't change grades and students cant interact with discussion and assignment items. I also saw a couple of items here that indicate that a concluded course does still allow some interaction with integration items and that faculty have some problems accessing items they have incorporated into the course. For discussion: what have you found to be the benefits and pitfalls of concluding courses and allowing student access after? What have you seen in your environments that might cause you to go a different route? What have you chosen, settings wise, for your end of term? And finally, what really happens when a course is concluded, are there artifacts that students can access that they shouldn't, do faculty have problems accessing things that they should? Final question, if students have access to view after a course is concluded, how does that impact activity logging for reporting purposes? ... View more

I'm new at canvas and wading through a lot of information. As I am looking at our sis-imports, the past status logs we create on import, and the api for status, I am seeing a lot of missing import id numbers. I see that there is an abort_all_pending command. Is there a get_all_pending or list_all_pending or something similar? Or does anyone know of a way to find all of the pending sis-import job ids? Thanks much! ... View more