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brian_mullins
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System Analyst
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Aug 16, 2016 1:59:59 PM
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I've been working for Beaverton School District since 9/1/1998. I started in Transportaion, moved to IT as a Programmer Analyst and advanced to a System analyst. I'm the primary IT support for Canvas in our district of 38000 students.

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A great move. I think more moderation, making sure clear use cases are provided would also be helpful. In addition, moderators need to be much more proactive in merging the same or similar ideas. Also...
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At Beaverton School District we've been syncing Parent/Observer accounts from our SIS for several years. Many times, we've been asked how to do this, so I thought I'd go ahead and document it here. Th...
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@Edina_Tipter Thanks for the update. I think we are all excited to see the progress.I'd like to suggest a series of blog posts that detail some of the items presented here. For example, I'd love to he...
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@chriscasAgree that some things might have a negative impact on other users. Here's how I'd hope an upvote-only process would work. If I find an upvoted idea that would negatively affect me, I'd add a...
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When we were young and dumb, we just created a sub-account structure that mimicked what we had in our SIS. We had our root account, of course, and under that we had the following 3 sub-accounts:Elemen...
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Most Recent Posts

Rtoon,   I did a large reorg similar to this a few years ago to get our account structure into the structure described in this post:   https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Admin-Blog/A-bit-about-...
Mar 21, 2024 7:41:04 AM
Hilidi, Great write-up. Are you using the OneRoster integration in Synergy to sync with Canvas or are you doing a custom SIS Import process?Thanks, Brian
Sep 19, 2023 10:00:10 AM
Hi DerekBear, This error usually means that a user is listed in the enrollments.csv file but does not exist in Canvas. Therefore the enrollment cannot be processed. Look for an user in the user.csv fi...
Aug 29, 2023 9:42:07 PM
I've downloaded the Postman environment and API defs but am having trouble getting authorized. I can run getJWT just fine, it sets a token, but then none of the other calls work, all returning the sam...
May 1, 2023 8:25:24 AM
@RobG247365In our case, the SIS ID's used for our staff and students is their district ID (student number for students, employee ID for staff). For Parents we are just creating them using the GUID ass...
Mar 3, 2023 8:46:03 AM

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