Recent Updates

  • In the Quotas tab, you can set default account quotas for courses, users, and groups. You can also set quotas by Course ID or Group ID.

  • State and Common Core Standards are goals objectives for student assessment in the United States. These standards have been created by the nation's governors and educational leaders to assess specific student learning.

    Canvas will import the following standards for free:

    • All Common Core Standards for Language Arts, Math, and Science (NGSS)
    • All state specific standards for Core 4 subjects (Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies) for states with current Canvas customers

    When State and Common Core Standards are imported into the account level, instructors who are finding standards for their course will view the State and Common Core Standards as part of the Account Standards outcome group.

    If your state does not appear in Outcomes or if your institution does not have access to Common Core or state standards, please contact your Customer Success Manager. Additionally, if you would like to purchase and use non-core standards for subjects such as PE, Health, Art, etc., please contact your Customer Success Manager.

  • All outcomes added at the account or sub-account level will be available to courses within the account. You can find and import Account Standards, which are outcomes that have been created by you or other users with admin permissions for the entire institution. You can also find State and Common Core Standards.

    You can import an individual outcome or import an entire outcome group.

  • You can move outcomes and outcome groups after you have added them to your account or sub-account. You can use the Move Outcome or Move Outcome Group button, or you can manually drag and drop the outcome or outcome group.

    Note: To move an outcome to an outcome group, you will need to create an outcome group.

  • As an admin, you can choose to allow the Student Learning Mastery Gradebook feature option for instructors to enable in their courses, which lets students see Learning Mastery scores on their Grades page. All Outcomes in the course appear in the student view. However, some official outcome names may be difficult for students to understand, so when creating outcomes at the account level, you have the option to create a custom, or more friendly name, to appear for students. This separate name field allows you to keep both the official name of the outcome as well as create a friendlier version that is more helpful for students.

    Note: For instructors, creating a custom name is a course permission. If they have access, instructors can create friendly names for outcomes they create at the course level. However, they cannot create custom names for outcomes created at the account level.

  • If you created an outcome in your account or sub-account that you need to edit or delete, you can do so as long as the outcome has not yet been used to assess a student. Once the outcome has been used for scoring, you cannot modify the outcome.

    You can delete an outcome group as long as it does not contain any outcomes that cannot be modified.

    Notes:

    • You can modify any outcomes or outcome groups where you have permission.
    • Outcomes that cannot be edited but can be deleted are aligned with a question bank but have not yet been used to assess a student.
  • If you have generated an API access token, you can use it to make API calls.

    Canvas tokens align with Canvas permissions. If your Canvas account is deleted or if you are no longer an administrator, your tokens will also be revoked.