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What are Modules?
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What are Mastery Paths?
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What are What-If Grades?
<p>What-If Grades allow students to calculate their total grade by entering hypothetical grades for assignments. Only students can enter and view What-If scores. Learn how students use What-If Scores. </p> <p><strong>Notes:</strong></p> <ul><li>If Multiple Grading Periods are enabled in your course and users cannot view total grades, or if you have hidden student grade totals in Course Settings, students cannot view their current or total grade in the student Grades page. </li> <li>Currently instructors cannot create hypothetical scores for students like What-If scores. However, you can view current and total scores for students by viewing the Student Interactions Report.</li> </ul>Manual Canvas Basics Guide -
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What are grading schemes?
<p>A grading scheme is a set of criteria that measures varying levels of achievement in a course. Account-level grading schemes are grading schemes that can be defined at the account or sub-account level for the entire institution. On a course level, instructors can apply grading schemes to both students' final grades and individual assignments. Without a grading scheme, scores are not measured against any specific standard. </p> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/73489673" target="_blank">View a video about Grading Schemes</a>.</p> <p><span style="color: rgb(29,29,29)"><strong>Notes</strong></span><span style="color: rgb(29,29,29)">:</span></p> <ul><li>Account-level grading schemes automatically appear within all courses in the account. When an instructor links a grading scheme created at the account level, the grading scheme is linked, not imported, as a new scheme on the course level. Grading schemes imported from the account level can only be modified by users with grading scheme permissions. </li> <li>Grading schemes created at the account level automatically appear on the sub-account level. </li> </ul>Manual Canvas Basics Guide -
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What are External Apps (LTI Tools)?
<p>LTI provides a framework through which an LMS (Canvas) can send some verifiable information about a user to a third party. For LTI to work, the third party needs to provide a consumer key and shared secret that Canvas can use to generate a signature to verify the authenticity of the data sent. By default most user information is anonymized, but this can be changed when the configuration is first set up.</p> <p>External Apps can be configured on the account or course level. </p>Manual Canvas Basics Guide -
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What are Discussions?
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What is the Course Import Tool?
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What are Conferences?
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How do I view Discussions as an observer?
<p>The Discussion Index page allows you to view all the discussions within a course.</p> <p><strong>Note</strong>: Your instructor may choose to hide the Discussions link in Course Navigation. If the Discussions link is not available, you can still access Discussions through other areas of Canvas.</p>Manual Canvas Observer Guide -
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How do I use the Syllabus as an observer?
<p>The Syllabus helps your instructor communicate course expectations and information. The Syllabus is automatically populated by assignments and events in the course. </p> <p>Your instructor has the option to set the Syllabus to be the home page for your course as well.</p>Manual Canvas Observer Guide
