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andrewg1 · ‎06-01-2022

Hello fellow educators! I'm part of an 8th-12th grade online school, and we're trying to give students more of a chance for community. We have Canvas discussion boards set up in each course for off-topic chat, but we find that the discussion format doesn't work very well for light conversation. What we want to do is set up something like a Discord server for each course, so that students can interact and get to know their classmates. We would want the chat to be a safe and encouraging environment, so it would have to be monitored. The problem is that neither our teachers nor our admins has the time to fully monitor a chat room. First, has anyone found an online chat system with automated content filtering or flagging of potentially inappropriate content? I saw that discord can scan for NSFW images, but we would need something more stringent than that. Second, and more generally, what strategies have you used to create a sense of community in online courses? We already have live class sessions that meet weekly, but students want a place to discuss non-academic interests with their peers.

andrewg1 · ‎11-17-2021

Hi Canvas wizards, I'm looking into Course Evaluation solutions for the virtual school that I work for. We want something that integrates with Canvas. I already found great discussions on here (like this one) about course evals, but most of them deal with the big players, such as EvaluationKit by Watermark, Blue by Explorance, and CourseEval by Anthology. I'm also considering two smaller course evaluation solutions: SmartEvals and CourseEval HQ by Etudes. (I found them on the EduAppCenter). Has anyone used SmartEvals or CourseEval HQ? And if so, can you share what you thought of them? Thank you, Andrew

andrewg1 · ‎09-22-2020

For the new Recent History feature, will that show activity that occurred when someone "acted as" the student?

andrewg1 · ‎06-02-2020

Hi Everyone, Now that the school year is over, I'm going through and double-checking our teacher's Gradebooks. Periodically, I find assignments with unposted grades. To find those assignments, I have to scroll through the Canvas Gradebook and look for the crossed-out eye icon. Then, I have to click the three-dots dropdown menu, click "post grades," select "everyone," and then click "Post." This process is very time-consuming when multiple assignments have unposted grades. Is there a way for me to post all unposted grades in a course all at once?

andrewg1 · ‎11-21-2019

I like how consistent the URLs are in Canvas, and how every account, user, course, assignment, etc. has it's own ID. It makes it easy to piece together URLs such as "myinstance.instructure.com/courses/653/users/872". Or if if you're on a page like "courses/653/users/872", you can just delete "courses/653" to get straight to that user 653's page. And the IDs make it easy to refer to assignments/users/courses when talking with Canvas Support. Oh, and I recently learned that you can add "/grades" to the end of any user URL (like this: myinstance.instructure.com/users/872/grades) to see a grade report for that user. It's a helpful little trick!

andrewg1 · ‎10-25-2019

Hi Folks, We're considering using Zoom for our weekly live classes (our K12 program is completely online). If we use the new Zoom LTI for Canvas, would each teacher need her own Zoom Pro account? (I say Zoom Pro, cause the Basic accounts only allow meetings up to 40 minutes.) If not, we would try to share accounts as needed, since our classes are spread out throughout the week. Thanks for your help!

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Student Community Chat Hello fellow educators! I'm part of an 8th-12th grade online school, and we're trying to give students more of a chance for community. We have Canvas discussion boards set up in each course for ...	06-01-2022	342
Anyone used these Course Evaluation solutions? Hi Canvas wizards, I'm looking into Course Evaluation solutions for the virtual school that I work for. We want something that integrates with Canvas. I already found great discussions on here (lik...	11-17-2021	873
How to post all unposted grades at once Hi Everyone, Now that the school year is over, I'm going through and double-checking our teacher's Gradebooks. Periodically, I find assignments with unposted grades. To find those assignments, I h...	06-02-2020	556
Does each teacher need her own Zoom account? Hi Folks, We're considering using Zoom for our weekly live classes (our K12 program is completely online). If we use the new Zoom LTI for Canvas, would each teacher need her own Zoom Pro account? ...	10-25-2019	6824

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