u/littleirishpixie

I get a lot of dual enrollment students in my summer course so I am often the one who gets to introduce them to college. The first person to hold them to deadlines and take an actual late penalty. The first person who doesn't accept "I was confused" as a reason why a student thinks they should be permitted a re-do on an assignment they half-completed after not asking a single clarifying question about it. Etc. But the ones that make me chuckle the most are the moments where I get to be the first person to break it to students that we can see what they access in the course on our end.

So, no, dear student who has accessed the course 9 times since last Friday: you don't get an extension on last night's assignment since you "just opened the course for the first time today." Aside from the fact that - even if that were true - you signed up for the course and that's on you to log in for the first time prior to 5 days into the course. But more importantly, here is a screen shot of your user history that shows that you opened that exact assignment 4 different times over the last week. Welcome to college.

My department started pre-populating common content for gen ed courses primarily for the sake adjuncts but also some assignments are now auto-linked for assessment data collection. We can't override and import our own assignments if they are linked but we are welcome to change the wording on the prompts. However, for one of the pre-populated assignments, I prefer use a survey format using the quizzes tool rather than having students submit an attached document because I use the data from it later in the course. It saves me a lot of time (most of our faculty enter their info into a table for this assignment and it's a huge waste of time). As far as I can tell, there is no way to convert their pre-existing assignment to a quiz after it already exists so I would like to import my previously used one but want to confirm it's not one set for assessment first. I have been combing through Canvas trying to see if there's a way to tell and I really can't see anything different even for the ones that I know for sure are used for assessment. Wondering if there's somewhere in the course where it's visible?

I emailed IT since they do the prepoluation and also my Chair but it's finals week so things are crazy right now and I'm not expecting a response any time soon. Figured I would ask here just to see if someone happens to know off the top of their head.