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kontrse · ‎03-28-2020

I have an assignment that I have had published from the beginning of the semester that is no longer relevant to the coursework. It's due date was always in April but I have one go-getter in the class who went ahead and submitted it early; now I can't "Unpublish" it. Any advice or ideas? I don't even want students to be able to view it, so if I close it, it won't help, or I can make it zero points, but I still don't want students completing it. (I tried to download the student's submission to see if I could then delete the submission, but that won't work either. If I contacted the student, could he delete his work? I'll give him some credit for it, I just want the assignment to go away so it doesn't confuse the rest of the class.)

kontrse · ‎02-05-2020

It's very frustrating; the Canvas testing area is really sub-par. There's no way to sort by question type, export to another file, or even easily see the question in the test banks. It's a hunt and peck game for finding certain questions or trying to edit quizzes. There needs to be some attention to the testing area. This is my number two pet peeve about Canvas (mainly because I can work in ExamView, Respondus or Cognero to build multiple choice tests); my number one complaint remains the inadequate discussion boards that don't allow sorting.

kontrse · ‎10-27-2019

I am so frustrated with the discussion boards! Why isn't their a sort option? Why can't we reverse order them? Why can't I, as an instructor, pin my response to the top? The discussion board is so clunky; I also find that the replies are not off-set enough. Is there a way to just view a thread? I'm just trying to manage a discussion of 25 grad students today and finding it increasingly frustrating to sort, even along topics, or I would really like to tag...like Hey Brenda, Fred, and Alison, You all had the same issue with this question...here's what I have to say. Please someone confirm that the long-promised changes to the discussion boards are in development.

kontrse · ‎09-12-2017

This is not as much of an issue in on ground classes, as I generally don't use the discussions section except for very limited threads. However, this is a big issue in my online classes, especially large classes. I separate the class into groups to allow for easier navigation on graded discussions but I cannot do that with open threads like ongoing questions or issues with the class, so a question from 3 weeks ago is at the top, while one from yesterday is 50 posts down.

kontrse · ‎09-12-2017

I agree with you completely; I've come here to find out if this is a feature. I have an open forum for questions/answers in a very large online class, and it is very frustrating not to be able to view the newest issue at the top of the forum.

kontrse · ‎02-28-2016

Thanks for the reply. After thinking about the best way to do this for what I need, I think after all the students take the test, I am going to change the midterm to a practice quiz and create a non-submission assignment for the gradebook with the point total I want and then just manually copy the exam grades into that assignment. The practice quizzes don't figure into the grades, do they?

kontrse · ‎02-27-2016

Could I use the same theory as above to make the test worth more than 100%? I have a 60 question midterm but only want 55 of the questions to count, thereby giving the students 5 "free" questions. (Don't care which questions they are.) Could I convert the quiz to a graded survey worth 5.5 points instead of the 6 points created by the quiz?

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