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My roster sync from PowerSchool to Canvas has successfully synced all existing users, teachers and students, from the last school year. However, no new students and no new teachers will sync. I've never had this happen before, it's always just automa...

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A new teacher is not appearing in Canvas. She is in our SIS (PowerSchool) and her classes appear in Canvas but she does not have an account and does not appear in the "People" list as the teacher for her courses (no teacher is listed).  Any thoughts ...

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We normally have one course and may have up to four sections in that course.  We just added infinite campus as our sis.  We are able to sync only if we have a separate course for each section.  That means four canvas pages to keep up to date- a lot o...

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I'm contracting with a charter school and helping them through their SIS integration to Aspire. I know our CS person is trying, but the responses have been very slow and the director needs to plan PD, and to do that we need to know if they sync will ...

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We're facing significant challenges with the Powerschool Canvas sync, specifically regarding course naming conventions and observer account syncing. Is there a way to concatenate section numbers from PowerSchool with course names during the sync proc...

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I am a new admin and trying to troubleshoot an issue. We are a PowerCampus institution. I am getting an import error for several courses for a new program that says: "No short name given".  I looked at Courses.csv and I see that they are missing. I w...

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We use Sapphire for our SIS. This year we developed a Course Template and have it linked through the Admin account to populate for all new courses created. I would like to have the SIS Categories already synced in the template course when the new cou...

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I am creating a new Canvas course for the new school year.  In the past I have imported my students from Skyward but I cannot remember how I did it. I have searched the guides but cannot find a way to bulk import my class.  Thanks for your help. 

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We are moving from Moodle to Canvas.We are a Ellucian Colleague school and we are using ILP5 to handle the course bulk push.what we need to know isCan I use ILP5 for Colleague to push courses into Canvas and pickup Blueprints for the correct courses?...

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We're setting up a new integration from our SIS (Skyward Qmlativ) to Canvas but we're only going to use Canvas in 2 of our schools. How do we limit the data sent from Q to Canvas to only include 2 schools? Canvas said we should be able to do it on th...

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ILP overwrites the display name in Canvas. I see an option under the app settings to "provision preferred name." However, when setting the preferred name in Colleague it does not appear to be passing back to Canvas but rather still overwriting with l...

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I have a teacher that has used nightly sync all year long with success. Recently, she had her students take a Canvas quiz and has been since graded. Her nightly sync brought over the assignment, but the grades for the quiz will not pull over into Pow...

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I am having trouble when running a sync from Canvas to Skyward. I keep getting this error message: "Assignment "Finished Backyard " (358884.9971332) in section "MATH 6-05" (284090.0.05A) is marked as deleted. The teacher may restore this assignment i...

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Hi I am trying to upload my final grades to my schools website but I am getting an error and it telling me that I am Missing Grade Schema -- Please Create Grade Schema  in WebCampus.  I have searched everywhere on here to see how I can do this and I ...

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When importing the list of courses for a new term, I noticed that old announcements will also be imported. Is there a way to import courses without their announcements? Or do I have to copy each individual course to the new term? Thank you!

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Does Canvas have an SFTP site?We are trying to integrate a new SIS and I have not gotten any response from Canvas to meet with our IT department to provide 1/4 of the way to integration. 

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Will be introducing Anthology to our Canvas classes and our IT department would like to work with Canvas to get this accomplished. 

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We are a Veracross and Canvas school. Does anyone have a nightly sync for courses working and willing to walk me through the setup?

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I am having trouble with grade sync when I try to sync anything turned in late. It does not update in Aspen. I do not want to take off any points, I just need it to update the grade in Aspen. If the assignment is turned in late and I try to grade syn...

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The Sync to SIS list needs options to sort, filter. We haven't identified any options. Search would be good too.

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Is it possible to create one course in Canvas (to make it easier for younger students to navigate), but to then sync grades from that one Canvas course into more than one course on Infinite Campus? For example, to have one assignment group be "math" ...

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  All of my previous classes used a Total Points Category, with no issue.  I took on 4 Credit Recovery classes this term, for which I need to use and I set up Unit Test and Exam categories...and then aligned them to those Credit Recovery Courses....

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Hello, I am trying to grasp what certain custom fields / "lti variable substitutions" mean that come through the LTI 1.3 id_token.Since I currently am just working off of test users that are not rostered/enrolled through a SIS/IMS flow, they are all ...

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Hi, i manage a canvas instance, i try to publish all courses in my canvas via csv, changing the status to "active" But nothing happen. course_idshort_namelong_namestatus20241U03-44-CA10N1-CA3104CA10N1CA10N1-CASIUSTICA DE NIC´S Y NIIF´Sactive Any idea...

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My Canvas grade totals and Infinite Campus grade totals do not match.

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I am wondering if anyone has created steps or documentation that will allow our SIS (Synergy) to automatically create and associate observer accounts I am looking for more information on getting parents involved and thought it there observer accounts...

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Hi, We are currently setting up our Canvas Instance and wanted to know if anyone has achieved the ability to take attendance in Canvas and pass it to Banner. If so please provide how? Also, are you using the same API for grade passback? We are settin...

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All students were kicked out of Course. I have an admin role and our institution has Canvas integrated with our SIS system. In our system students appear enrolled and they used to have access to the course on Canvas until it disappeared because they ...

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When I sync from Canvas to Synergy, everything looks fine and there are no errors. It says completed. However, my Synergy grades do not update. The assignment titles and columns are there in Synergy but there are no points given, even though they are...

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Question from one of our teachers. Our Canvas syncs to Infinite Campus: "I assign work in Canvas, and make sure the "sync to" box is checked. The due date comes, and I haven't had a chance to grade them yet. But, I can't get the assignment to sync in...

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