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ddessauer
Wednesday Dessauer
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Canvas is my canvas.

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As an instructor & course designer I have years of history in 'all couses' section which I dip into and revisist to collect resources and things I need for building new course content. For...
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In 2022-23 there was an update to the Canvas inbox which broke some of the methods in older posts, so I thought it was worth adding a note here about how I am creating this function at the start of 20...
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I would hazard a guess that Instructure removed the specification because it had become outdated with their dashboard tiles becoming more responsive. That's speculation, what I can say is: The ...
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I frequently want to do exactly this. The only method I have been able to find (that still works in 2023), is to have your notifications turned on for 'new reply' and use the link that you rec...
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I am an outlier in my course delivering some units as asynchronous online experiences, which means I need to go to some lengths explaining what that is and how it works in practice, on top of onboardi...
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In Instructure Canvas, the ability to edit course start and end dates is controlled by specific permissions assigned to user roles. By default, users with the Teacher or Convenor roles typically do ha...
Feb 26, 2025 00:51 AM
Thanks for drawing my attention to this @laura_clark . i just tested it using the Teacher app on iPhone and iPad. I anticipate the Student & Parent apps will have the same behaviour. Rather th...
Jan 10, 2025 19:00 PM
In case you missed what @jclendenning mentioned earlier in this thread, there is a way for teacher/facilitators (sorry students!) to change old course nicknames, it just isn’t ideal. What you need...
Jan 07, 2025 19:39 PM
You could try Survey instead of Discussion.  The issue you will still face is that, in Instructure Canvas, a survey cannot be set to both graded and anonymous at the same time. If you want to encourag...
Dec 04, 2024 14:05 PM
Thanks for sharing you experience @FTSheldon  i recommend for your case that you try adding the ‘Better Canvas’ plugin to Google Chrome. This will give you a switch to enter and exit dark mode (al...
Oct 20, 2024 16:01 PM

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