Can AI Do That?
Lost Grades
As you valiantly stay afloat in today’s ocean of online blogs and social media posts claiming AI can do everything-including-cook-you-breakfast-in-the-morning in Canvas, I’m wondering if AI would know what to do with a panicked email like this:
If you’re an experienced Canvas Admin like me, you’ve encountered a number of S.O.S. communiques like this. Teachers of Canvas courses, please hear me when I say this:
You are not alone if you find grades have mysteriously disappeared in your gradebook. This happens quite often. You should not be expected to know everything about Canvas. Situations like this happen, and they are fixable.
-Chris Powell, Canvas Insider
An experienced, caring, highly-attractive, witty, and extensively-knowledgeable Canvas Admin would guide Professor Plum to their gradebook to confirm what they are seeing:
The empathetic, patient, entertaining, and vivacious Canvas Admin would then go to the Edit quiz page and notice only one student is assigned the quiz:
Nodding their head, the benevolent, charismatic, and appealingly-charming Canvas Admin would assign “Everyone else” to the quiz and include the previous date/time info to prevent students from taking the quiz in the future:
Hopefully Professor Plum will exhale in relief as all other student grades return to their gradebook for that quiz:
This method works for assignments, discussions, quizzes….all graded curriculum in your course.
It’s obvious that AI agents can be trained on situations like this. But isn’t it nice that you have a wise, approachable, and eye-catchingly delightful Canvas Admin to help resolve these crisis moments?
Thanks for your time,
-Chris
PS and by the way - I don’t use AI to generate my written words. This is my own original blabbering.