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Just looking for a heads up on problems with PowerSchool integrations. What were they, how did you solve them?

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My district is a PowerSchool user deciding to make the jump to PowerSchool Assessments.  Will it work at all with Canvas, or will I have to drop Canvas or duplicate all assessments in order to make use of their tests and design tools?

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Is anyone using Kimono with Tyler SIS? If so, how's it working for you?

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We would like to utilize the Attendance in Canvas but it does not correlate with our SIS Jenzabar system.  Does anyone have solutions?  Currently we have faculty still record attendance in Jenzabar to ensure that we get the accurate last date of atte...

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We are currently using the Canvas API but have been asked to move to the PowerSchool SIF agent by Canvas. Has anyone configured this on their PowerSchool Server yet? What are the steps? Is any additional hardware needed?

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Our school needs to use the Jupiter grading system but we are also using Canvas.  In order for the teachers to only have to enter grades in one system I was wondering if there was a way to load grades from Canvas to Jupiter. 

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Is there a way or custom LTI or anything to only have the current grade in Canvas to pass back into Powerschool? We are encountering too many issues with individuals grades pass back especially when grades change in canvas and the change does not hap...

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I am at a small college and we currently require all grades to be recorded in Canvas, however, we are required to input our midterm and final grade into Jenzabar as that connects to all of our in-house, reports, transcripts, tracking forms...yadda ya...

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There are a few already-existing discussions that focus on Rediker...Sync Back & Forth btw Rediker and Canvas‌Course Set-up‌Attendance tool for Rediker‌...but I'd like to expand everyone's contact lists.If you are a Canvas school that uses Redike...

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As a  Canvas admin in a PK-12 district in Texas that uses a SIS called TEAMS, I wanted to create a discussion that could serve to facilitate communication between TEAMS and Canvas users going forward. If you come across this discussion and you are a ...

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Greetings! Our College uses Jenzabar and it doesn't really play nicely with Canvas (or anything else for that matter) and it got me wondering which student information systems DO play nicely with Canvas? Is anyone happy with their integration or thou...

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Do any districts/schools pass ONLY the final grade in a course from Canvas to PowerSchool?  Is there a way to do that?  Thanks!

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I am working with two separate teachers who both have crosslisted courses.  When they click post grades to pass grades to Powerschool from Canvas, everything transfers fine for one course, but only the assignment shell and no grades transfer for the ...

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Hello community,I have a quick scenario. Students are entered into PowerSchool almost instantly as they enroll in my school district. Student email may not be created until a few days later. Does anyone know if this could be the problem in my data pu...

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We use Skyward and I have had great success in posting grades via Canvas.   My question is about due dates...If the due date of an assignment has passed, I am finding that it will not post to Skyward?  What is the "threshold" for dates?  Is it only p...

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Hey Canvas Community,Our school is new to Canvas.  We are using Jenzabar as our SIS.  I was wondering if anyone else is using Jenzabar and could provide any useful information about grade passback from Canvas to Jenzabar.Thanks,John

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This semester I can only push grades to Powerschool if I move assignment into a new assignment group. Why?

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I recently took over  as Canvas Admin. Good news is that more teachers are starting to jump onboard with Canvas. The bad news is that I am getting bombed with a lot of students who are not in Canvas. I thought these were simply transfer students from...

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We use Skyward to build our courses in Canvas. We were having an issue with students that withdraw from a campus coming off the rosters, we just figured out how to make that happen. However, now we are still seeing students on rosters for courses the...

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When posting grades to PowerSchool, is there a way to see a list of the assignments/quizzes, etc. posting?   I only have two assignments enabled to perform the SIS posting, yet Canvas states there are 3 grades posting to my gradebook.   I can't deter...

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I trained teachers this week in PowerTeacher Pro but had to inform the teachers that it doesn't work for Canvas grade pass back. MAJOR BUMMER! They were very disappointed. Is there a way for me to tell Instructure how VITALLY IMPORTANT this feature i...

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We use Banner, and are beginning the setup of the grade pass back. Looking for advice from the trenches, if others are out there!

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I'm a district admin and a large number of our teachers are getting a No Due Date error message when attempting to post grades from Canvas to PowerSchool.  This is suddenly onset (yesterday and today) and the assignments all seem to have dates.  Anyo...

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Is there a way to post just one assignment to PowerSchool?  I've already posted most of the grades, but I just want to go back and post one.  Any help would be appreciated.

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Hello there,I have a question. We are going to migrate from Blackboard to Canvas. However my question is related to peoplesoft.What would be the best way to organize my database from peoplesoft in order to have a better experience with Canvas.For exa...

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In PowerSchool, I can add specific comments to assignments.  However, those comments disappear if I push grades from Canvas to PowerSchool.  I need for comments to either stay in PowerSchool or for Canvas to have the ability to make comments and push...

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After seeing the request for SIS information for colleges and universities in another discussion, I realized it would be good to get the collective wisdom of the Canvas Community for our situation.  Here goes:We currently use Rediker's Administrator'...

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Hello everyone,I work as an systems administrator for a smaller college.  We are currently starting up a review team to look at our Student Information System.I was hoping maybe some of you could answer a few questions.What SIS system are you using n...

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Hello everyone,I work as an systems administrator for a smaller college.  We are currently starting up a review team to look at our Student Information System.I was hoping maybe some of you could answer a few questions.What SIS system are you using n...

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I want to let others know of what I found today with one of our teachers using the Skyward gradebook integration.The teacher tried several times to post grades to Skyward.  Each time she received the Success message in Canvas after posting, but the a...

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