Canvas

Canvas Slam: Tip 2 Undelete

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Bookmark this one…  It may just save your bacon one day. 

If you accidentally delete something in Canvas, you can find and re-add it by adding the word undelete to the end of the course address. The course address is the URL of the home screen.

Example: Here’s mine from Religions and Revolutions with the word “undelete”
https://friendscentral.instructure.com/courses/859/undelete

Doing this brings you to the Restore Deleted Items page, which will include a list of recent restorable items. These will have brief descriptions that include what type they are, the date of their creation, and the last update.
Restore Deleted Items

Canvas Slam Tip 1

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First in a series of quick tips about Canvas.   

Last year, several people asked me about the best way to collect journal posts in Canvas. At the time, I recommended making discussion groups of 1 and having students make multiple submissions through Discussions. This year, I’m doing it differently.

  1. I have created a comments-only rubric and have attached it to an assignment I have labeled “Journal due”
  2.  I move the “Journal due” assignment forward every two weeks.
  3.  In submission attempts, I made it unlimited.

Thus, I can now easily reuse the same assignment, allowing for multiple submissions but in the end only one final grade.

Here’s how to do it.

How to Copy a Canvas Course

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With the second semester upon us, some will want a reminder on how to copy a Canvas course. A video tutorial of the steps listed below is at the bottom.

1) In Course Navigation on left-hand side of the course page, click the Settings link.

Open Settings

2) Then on Right-hand menu click “Copy Course Content”

Copy Course Content

3) Select Migration Content

Select Migration Content

To import all content from the course, select the All Content radio button [1].

If you want to take only some content, click the Select specific content radio button [2].

4) Remember To Turn Off Due Dates

Here is a video showing these steps.