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thompsli
Linnea Thompson
Rank:
Community Champion
Title:
Math Teacher
Joined:
Dec 12, 2016 6:13:46 PM
Posts:
186
Solutions:
3
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478
Bio:
Linnea Thompson has been teaching 7th-12th grade math online since 2015, and using Canvas since 2016.

Most Liked Posts

Google has rolled out a new "Homework Help" button in the URL bar of Chrome, and I just tested it out. During a Canvas quiz, if I click that button in the URL bar and select a quiz question in...
Likes: 34
My biggest concern is that students may not even understand that clicking a button that says "help" and is literally on the same screen as their quiz could possibly be cheating. Some students ...
Likes: 11
I just wanted to link some related Ideas currently open for vote: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/9511-allow-missing-label-to-be-enableddisabled-by-choice?sr=search&searchId=02b48a44...
Likes: 6
I am extremely disappointed in this choice by Instructure.I use captions to follow video content, and  I want to re-iterate what others have said: auto-captions are not a high-quality way to make vide...
Likes: 6
I hide the syllabus from view. I have a "Course Information" Module at the top of my Modules page with Pages for things like "Grading Policy", "How to be an Online Math Student"...
Likes: 5

Most Recent Posts

Will there be a way to set some tags for students at an account level so that the tag is attached to them in all of their classes? One of our ongoing challenges with Canvas is that we don't have a...
Oct 28, 2025 09:27 AM
If you're the instructor or course designer, you can do this from the course settings page: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-add-an-image-to-a-course-card-in-the-Dashbo...
Sep 17, 2025 11:13 AM
We eventually figured out this was a permissions issue in our case, when we realized that it worked when our Canvas admin did the import but not when I did it to copy the same quiz. We resolved the is...
Sep 17, 2025 11:06 AM
I just wanted to thank you for writing all of this up! My district IT folks found it very helpful.
Sep 10, 2025 11:39 AM
My school district is requiring us to issue letter grades based on course outcomes. I have my summatives linked to the course outcomes in Canvas, but the letter grades seem to still be based on their ...
Sep 10, 2025 11:35 AM

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