How do I make sure students receive announcements

Hi everybody, How can I make sure that students receive announcements and new discussion posts even if they disabled notifications for this course? Tom

How to assign partial points for partial attendance using the Rollcall Attendance tool

Hi everybody, For my purposes, the distinction into absent, tardy and present is not flexible enough. I want to give half points for half attendance etc. How can I do this? Thanks in advance! T...

Lab Practical with questions as stations allowing flagging and return to flagged stations

I usually have a on-site hands-on anatomy lab practical where students have to identify 2-3 anatomical structures at each station before moving on solving a total of 50 structures in the end. Wi...

File upload questions

Dear educators, As I have to change the way I do on-site exams and switch to online exams due to the corona virus, I try to deliver part of the exam as file upload questions providing students wit...

Exam with choices of questions

How can I make an exam with 12 questions but only require students to choose 10 questions for full points?

Can I generate test banks of individual previous exams that students received by being randomly picked from a question bank?

I promised students that the cumulative part of the final would only contain questions that were on the previous midterms but these questions were randomly picked for them out of a test bank. I guess...

Forward email from email client such as Outlook

How can I send or forward an email from my email client to Canvas Inbox?

Avoid duplicate questions in quizzes pulled from test banks

How can I avoid duplicate questions when pulling from question banks that have partially the same questions?

Mixed peer-reviewed, teacher-reviewed assignments

How can I create a mixed teacher - peer reviewed assignment such as a presentation. Automatically assigned peer reviewers have to know whose presentation they grade but should remain anonymous. Th...