Admin Zone
Tips, tricks, and ideas for Canvas Admins. Teachers and students are welcome here, too!
New LTI Install Process
Attention: Book Publishers, EdTech Software providers, and my fellow Canvas Admins… This video is for you.
Accessing Canvas Courses Without Being Added
I have received a number of requests from my university’s department chairs and staff to have access to teachers’ courses for evaluative or content support reasons. It's lightning-quick for a Canvas Admin like me to add someone to one or many courses (with permission) but sometimes all those current-term courses can fill up one’s Dashboard,
Archiving Courses in Canvas Without Deleting Them
Should there be a mandate to eliminate courses from an institution’s LMS, Canvas Admins have other options available to them outside of hard-deleting a course…and losing all student content within the course. For a few years I have been able to leverage a process that:
Canvas Quizzes - The Final Countdown
A number of my teacher clients tell me they get emails from students claiming various issues with their quiz attempt in their Canvas course. Check out this video to see what students encounter towards the end of a timed quiz, and what they have to click in order to have…issues arise.
Accessing Canvas with Multiple Institutions
Sometimes teachers of Canvas courses will want to add folks from other institutions into their course, sometimes with a guest account.
Canvas Admin Superpowers
Sometimes a student inadvertently uploads a file for a Canvas assignment submission that contains inappropriate, unintended, or private material. Unfortunately, teachers of courses don’t have the capabilities to delete student submissions. However, your friendly neighborhood Canvas Admin has superpowers that can delete student submissions in cases such …
Importing Course Content to Different Sections
A few of my Western Washington University faculty contacted me with concerns about how to find the course…with all their updated content…among a list of identical course sections when “importing course content.”