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KirstenThomson
Kirsten Thomson
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Title:
Lecturer
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Mar 17, 2022 10:38:54 AM
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29
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I am a Lecturer at the University of New Mexico. I have used Canvas since my institution switched several years ago.

Most Liked Posts

Since I feel like this my fault, suggesting New Quizzes to you, the least I can do is help 🙂 You are on the right track with changing the Settings. There isn't (that I can figure out anywa...
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Someone asked a question about the Chrome extension Canvas Quiz Solver already (https://canvasquiz.com/) but the reply from Canvas was not very helpful. Is Canvas itself doing anything about this? Can...
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It would be very helpful if, when inserting a saved comment from the Comment Library when using SpeedGrader, the new comment did not erase everything already in the Comments window. That way we could ...
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This is embarrassing, but I mixed up my complaint about another platform with Canvas and as soon as I posted it I tried to delete it! From your reply it sounds like the same complaint carries over tho...
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Definitely not. I want to keep each student in their own respective courses. I would be looking for a "behind-the scenes" solution that is invisible to students as I don't want to confuse ...
Likes: 2

Most Recent Posts

Thanks, I posted it to Canvas Ideas too. I am not sure a lot of people search through those, though, so I wanted to put it here too so that people who also thought it was a good idea could know about ...
Sep 10, 2025 08:24 AM
Problem statement: Students can use Google Lens and other AI extensions to cheat on Quiz questions. The new Google Lens (and other extensions in Chrome too) now make the Canvas Quizzes completely, eas...
Sep 09, 2025 10:47 AM
Problem statement: It would be very helpful if, when inserting a saved comment from the Comment Library when using SpeedGrader, the new comment did not erase everything already in the Comments window....
Sep 05, 2025 08:35 AM
It would be very helpful if, when inserting a saved comment from the Comment Library when using SpeedGrader, the new comment did not erase everything already in the Comments window. That way we could ...
Sep 05, 2025 08:27 AM
I have tried both methods, of Commons and Google docs and found them both really wanting. The Commons method is just too much of a pain (uploading multiple pages to Commons, editing it, pushing an upd...
Jul 31, 2025 11:05 AM

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