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Why does not the new gradebook sync not transfer the late and missing flags from Canvas to PowerSchool like the older version did? Anyway to fix this? https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/PowerSchool-and-Canvas/How-do-I-sync-grades-from-Canvas-to-the-P...

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We are passing Canvas grades to ProgressBook gradebook.  Do letter grades pass to ProgressBook? What about Canvas grading terms such as "late", "missing", and "excused"?

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Only a few of my grades are syncing to Synergy is it because some of the grades are hidden? Is there a way to hide grades from student view and still be able to sync to Synergy? I hide the grades of assignment that I went back in and changed grades t...

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Hello! I did not find this anywhere online, so I want to put it here for anyone else dealing with the issue. Many of our teachers had left their assignments in the "Imported Assignments" category. If you are syncing your Canvas grade book with PowerS...

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We are a small College that uses Jenzabar EX for our SIS. We have just implemented Canvas LMS and are experiencing problems with enrollments, dropping students etc. Jenzabar has recommended we purchase their Unity platform so we can use Canvas' API. ...

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Exemptions in Canvas are not only displaying in PowerSchool as a Zero, but also with an F. Yes, this is not calculated in the final grade and is truly exempt, but students and parents are freaking out over it. PowerSchool claims it is Canvas that has...

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In Focus SIS we are able to mark an assignment as "Completion Only" and it doesn't count, but it will show parents what non-graded work students are doing. Does Canvas transfer grades like this?

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We have some assignments that are not part of grade calculation but were enabled for the SIS sync.  The grades have been synced and then disabled in Canvas, but the grade is still in our SIS.  This is causing the calculated course grades in the SIS t...

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Can anyone help with error code definitions specifically for Blackbaud SIS??? The "dictionary" that I keep finding has every other SIS out there BUT Blackbaud and the "definitions" don't fit our instance.

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When doing a grade sync from Canvas to Powerschool, if a student is excused from an assignment in Canvas, it is showing as a 0 in the Powerschool Gradebook. Is there a way for it to just show Excused without showing the 0? It does not calculate in th...

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There are some specific informations that I need to set manually and, previously, we used the Import with .csv files. How can Canvas Admins import courses or users to the LMS, now that the "Import SIS" isn't available anymore, due to the Canvas Data ...

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Hey all, I did an sis import in our test environment where I did a report for enrollments for last year, yearlong sections. After changing "active" to "deleted" I imported the file. I used the user_id, role, role_id, section_id, status fields. The im...

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Hello,We are noticing what we believe to be changes to the syncing (passback) with PowerSchool that I would love to have some confirmation on and, perhaps, ways to work around them.It seems as though assignments will not passback to PS until the due ...

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When grading an assignment for completion, the teacher uses the "Set All Grades" feature in the grade book to give full credit to all students (10 points). The teacher then goes back and removes the score from any student absent so no score is shown ...

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Hi all!  I need to learn how to clear integration data for a single assignment using an API call.  Can someone point me to a step-by-step resource on how to do this?  I don't have a background in computer science, but I learn quickly and can usually ...

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Over the summer, our district switched to OneRoster 1.2.  After this switch, assignment comments are now syncing from Canvas to Infinite Campus. While this is a nice new feature, some teachers do not want their detailed feedback comments to appear in...

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How do I set up my grade book in Skyward? I have it done in Canvas. I can see numerous help articles about how to sync Canvas and Skyward grade books, but I can't do that until I figure out how to set up the Skyward grade book in the first place.

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Comments that I added to a Canvas assignment were transferred to an earlier version of Skyward when I  synched the systems. Will this become possible with the new Q version of Skyward? I am not getting it to work this year.

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I sync my grades from Canvas to Skyward. When I excuse a student in canvas the no count icon appears in skyward. This is great. But when I mark something as missing in Canvas, why doesn't the missing icon transfer over to skyward?

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There is this odd behavior that if you sync grades for an assignment for one section, then it won't let you sync the grades for that assignment for any of the other sections afterwards.  My school's tech team says that Canvas doesn't consider this a ...

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As recently as last year, it was possible to set Canvas to push grades to powerschool automatically every night.  Has this functionality been removed or has the way it is done been changed? This was a very convenient functionality that a lot of peopl...

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I noticed recently that some of my assignments/grades aren't syncing to my school's SIS. On the assignments, I have the box that is checked that says, "Include this assignment's grades when syncing to your school's Student Information System." I have...

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I don't see where I can import the different assignment categories into Canvas from Powerschool.  Last year, I was able to import the groups (classwork, homework, quiz, test, etc.) from my Powerschool so that when I give the students an assignment, I...

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For the past five days I have not been able to get a roster sync with Infinite Campus OneRoster 1.2. I’ve tried to determine if this is related to Infinite Campus’ outage, but have not heard either way. Other Vendors have been able to sync with our I...

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Canvas to Aeries grade push issues.What's done: - cache cleaned. - category names match - assignment length is checked.Some assignments load, but not all.

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So Canvas and PowerSchool have apparently been having relationship troubles again. Our school has been working on this for 2 weeks now and it seems there is no solution as of yet. It says the SSIDs can not be found. Mine worked flawlessly for 3 weeks...

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Using PowerSchool (PS) and Canvas.   Classes in PS can be set up for semester and yearlong.   Some students that only need a semester of a class (semester level) are put in a yearlong class. When this one class in PS is ported over to  Canvas, 2 clas...

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I'm having trouble getting Canvas to sync grades to Aspen. When I try to do so, it fails around step 3 and it's giving me the following error:  Http get on https://ma-mpsd.myfollett.com/ims/oneroster/v1p1/classes/MST000000QtIn5/lineItems has failed -...

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I had a mistake in my categories on Skyward that was causing syncing issues. I have those categories fixed, but when I click the sync button on Canvas now, it doesn't sync those assignments that were missed because of the category issues.  Is there s...

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Over the summer, we were switched to OneRoster 1.2 for rostering from our SIS After this update, we have a strange new issue that is affecting student enrollments in a specific situation. Our issue occurs when a student:1) Is enrolled in a specific s...

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