About
melodyc_lam
Melody Lam
Rank:
Community Coach
Title:
Canvas Admin/Program Manager
Joined:
Apr 13, 2018 7:57:12 AM
Posts:
277
Solutions:
104
Likes Received:
317
Bio:
Instructure Advocate and interested in pushing Canvas to new heights! I work at a large K-12 school district that uses Canvas and MasteryConnect and I'm always interested in sharing and learning from the Developer and Admin communities.
Most Liked Posts
@NickChevalierUT Welcome! Last year was my first year going to InstructureCon (and presenting!) so there's definitely a lot I would've done differently (room for swag being one of them!)
B...
@KataKeri As someone who has found malformed HTML on pages to cause issues with course exports and rendering in Canvas, having the HTML tags there is useful to figure out where I should start chec...
@AllisonHowell
Chiming in to also point out that 1) the change is welcome but 2) the lack of a date on when the update will occur is a little concerning, as we're heading into teacher workday...
@PittWu If the teaching staff members are in the same subaccount/account, you can send a Global Announcement, which will be sent to users with particular course roles. If the user has email notifi...
@Chris_Hofer So at our school, we have two "templates" -- one is just for course settings, applied to sandboxes and 99.9% of the courses that get created, and then for the .1% that become ...
Most Recent Posts
@dbrace Great question! All of this is handled by our SIS integration, but here's how they're set up:
course_code/Short Name: Course Name (Course Code)
sis_course_id: [year] - [subaccount ...
@ChrisB125 Welcome! I do this through a SIS Import from our data warehouse for courses, so it can be done without a SIS. You just need to be able to access the SIS import system and ensure that AL...
@anthonm Welcome!
The first place I would check is the Grade Sync page and check the actual syncs. If there's an issue with a sync, it'll either say Completed or Failed in red. Click on th...
@EmilyGold Welcome! I'm in North Carolina but our district just went through a SIS conversion to Infinite Campus so I had the opportunity to evaluate naming conventions on our side and dictate...
@alexsarliy Welcome! For issues with logging into Canvas, you should contact your institution/school's Canvas admin for assistance. We don't have access to accounts across other institutio...
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