Today, I received two different Canvas questions and thought all may wish to know the answers.
A colleague asked how to sort annotations and comments in speedgrader. He noted that the comments he was making were appearing out of order. Here’s what was happening. When a teacher writes multiple in text comments in the margin of a student paper in speed-grader, the most recent comment bubble floats upwards. As a consequence, comments go out of order. Bummer. Right? Don’t worry about it! Just click “Submit”. Canvas will automatically arrange comments into the correct order.
Another colleague asked if it was possible to reuse quizzes made last year in Google Classroom and pull them into Canvas. The answer is a partial yes. You’ll note that when you make a Canvas quiz, there are two parts. There is the quiz info. page and then there is a separate tab within Canvas in which to make the questions. Pulling in the Google Classroom quiz, you’ll use the former but not the latter part of the Canvas Quizzes feature.
Here’s how. (I made this using IORAD chrome extension, an easy to use step by step tutorial tool that teachers may find useful). Click on the screen to take the tutorial. It’s interactive.