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Nick_Yamagata
Nick Yamagata
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LMS Administrator
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May 23, 2019 3:31:19 PM
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12
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With years as a service desk technician at Weber State University, I am now in our eLearning department as the LMS Administrator. I look forward to expanding my Canvas knowledge and building an understanding of LMS systems and tools!

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I had used my separate admin account to create the course and added my student account to the course to take it as a student, but you could always use the Student View function of the course as the te...
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Our university has been working with VitalSource to provide e-books and Day-one access to students through Canvas. Things have been working well, instructors and departments decide if they want their ...
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It doesn't seem like an option, currently. However, it does look like it's a heavily requested feature and has been voted up enough for Instructure to add it to their production plan: https://communit...
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If you're trying to import from Commons into a shell, you first need to make an empty course (shell) in your Canvas account, name it something recognizable like "Canvas Admin Training" or "Be the Hero...
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Thanks! I know it's a rather specific question. I've been working closely with our customer rep to iron out all of our worries, but was curious if anyone else in the community was in the same boat, or...
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Most Recent Posts

We absolutely need some sort of a reverse lookup for cross-listed courses. Our institution allows faculty to manage their own cross-listing at the Canvas level, when an instructor is teaching multiple...
Jun 24, 2021 9:16:52 AM
It doesn't seem like an option, currently. However, it does look like it's a heavily requested feature and has been voted up enough for Instructure to add it to their production plan: https://communit...
Oct 2, 2019 10:59:17 AM
For my instance, that's the Username field.I'm wondering if your predecessor had changed the field to display as "Your Email" for self-service account creation?
Sep 20, 2019 11:44:27 AM
I've found this PDF to be super useful when determining new admin roles: Canvas Account Role Permissions PDFAre you looking to allow access to Course Statistics or Course Analytics? Both generate fair...
Sep 12, 2019 10:42:37 AM
Our institution has been holding off enabling Commons for this reason. I hate to shake the dust off such an old thread, but I'm struggling to find any more documentation on TA permissions within Commo...
Aug 28, 2019 8:27:32 AM

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