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Hello - I am doing some planning to restructure our sub-accounts, and I'm wondering if there is a mechanism for moving one sub-account under another sub-account. I'm seeking to minimize the impact of this restructuring and we have faculty who use their sub-account group space for ongoing discussions.  ... View more

Full discloser: I am not a developer. I serve in a "course designer / administrator" role and asking this here because I am working with our developer to problem solve a due dates issue.  We have some assignments in a course that are visible to everyone, regardless of section. Those due dates from our SIS are correct.  We have other assignments that I have assigned to different sections, because the information is customized to that group, and our courses are taken asynchronously (hence due dates coming from the SIS). Those assignments are not populating due dates from our SIS. Our developer wonders if the section assignments are messing with the due dates override API, but that doesn't make much sense to me. I would think that the script should still be able to override a given assignment if the SIS is saying, "yes this assignment to that user with this due date" regardless of how the assignment is assigned. What might we be missing? What additional info would be helpful in sorting this out?  ... View more

My institution's students are distance learners, and I am working on using the Conferences feature for their webinar presentations that we'd like to be viewable for their peers. We have a course we use a student center (all our students are enrolled in that course) where we'd host these webinars/conferences.    Problem: When you create a conference, you can select all users, no users, or manually select users. All users added to a conference receive a notification email. Not all students want to attend every conference.  Selecting no users means nobody can see the conference. A user might be invited in order to view the conference. Our students already receive emails from their respective advisors for their courses, and I don't want to needlessly flood their inboxes. At this point, we would have maybe 2-3 Conferences per week, but this will grow as our school body grows, and I don't want emails from us becoming spam-like. I want to keep our email communications relevant. Potential solution: I'd like to create a registration system, to invite only those who opt into webinars they want to watch, so the notification they'd receive would be expected and relevant. I know the "student appointment block" option might be one way of achieving that, but then students are still receiving emails for those newly created appointment blocks.   Other ideas as to how I can use this Conferences feature while being mindful of the number of emails/notifications our students receive? What might I be missing? ... View more

Can anyone provide tips on aligning the front page of a course in canvas (particularly the syllabus as the front page), as seen in a browser, versus what appears first in the mobile app? Do students really have to click "home" and then "syllabus" to see what we designed as the browser's front page?  ... View more