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I made the mistake of turning on the "new gradebook" feature for my course.  Now my TA can't enter grades.I can't find any way to turn the "new gradebook" off again.  (It looke...
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Every time I get an answer to one of my questions, my opinion of Canvas sinks lower.  You put up a beta feature with an on/off switch to turn it on, but then it can't be turned off again?  Really?...
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Damn! I was just looking for the instructions for how to do this obviously necessary task.  Is there really no way to upload pre-defined lab groups.  I'm really expected to click 800 times to set ...
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What I ended up doing was downloading the class roster, editing out everything but the email addresses, and writing my own program to assign partners and group numbers for each assignment.  Then I pos...
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It sounds like this technique (though well-hidden) would have worked for me, but I retired and stopped teaching the course before they got around to implementing it.
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It sounds like this technique (though well-hidden) would have worked for me, but I retired and stopped teaching the course before they got around to implementing it.
May 11, 2022 1:21:44 PM
I do restrict to PDF only, but Canvas allows them to submit multiple PDF files, and I have been unable to find a way to get Canvas to limit them to one file.  There might be a way, since Canvas has a ...
Oct 22, 2020 2:45:01 PM
How do I prohibit multiple-file submissions?  I want students to submit ONE PDF file for grading, but some are scattering their work across multiple files.  Can I get Canvas to enforce a single-file l...
Oct 22, 2020 11:15:45 AM
I gave up on Canvas ever properly supporting groups, and wrote my own code using the Canvas API to assign students to groups based on CSV files (the same CSV files I use to assign students to Zoom bre...
Oct 6, 2020 7:22:36 AM
Instructure does not lose business because of their inability to provide essential features—the people who choose Canvas for campuses are not the people who use it, so Instructure can completely ignor...
Jul 7, 2020 9:01:00 AM

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