{"id":5117,"date":"2017-10-17T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T15:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisahistoryblog.wordpress.com\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:22:13","slug":"roll-call-in-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/roll-call-in-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll call in Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first week in every online class, I have an introductory discussion forum. I\u2019ve done many things here (asked for students to talk about themselves, respond to a news story, or discuss videos on being a college student) but the point is for me to know they are actively in the class, that I don\u2019t need to drop them as &#8220;no show&#8221;s.<\/p>\n<p>The law says that signing in to an online class is not \u201cattendance\u201d &#8211; they need to do something. So this is what they do.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5119 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/rollcall.png?resize=648%2C419&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"rollcall\" width=\"648\" height=\"419\" border=\"2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/rollcall.png?w=842&amp;ssl=1 842w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/rollcall.png?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/rollcall.png?resize=768%2C497&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since it\u2019s not something I grade, I have had it set up as a forum, and I left unchecked the Graded box. Then this morning, I realized that to contact the students who haven\u2019t posted (it\u2019s due yesterday, the first day of the 8-week term), I\u2019d need to print my roster and mark it manually, or write down the names of the students who hadn\u2019t posted.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I went back in to the forum, checked \u201cGraded\u201d, made it 0 points, had it graded as Complete\/Incomplete, and set the deadline for last night. Then I could go to the dropdown in the Gradebook and message the students who hadn\u2019t done it, all at once.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5125 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/messagestudentswho.png?resize=185%2C227&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"messagestudentswho\" width=\"185\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I also then need to use Speedgrader to mark each one Complete, since Canvas doesn\u2019t really understand what Complete\/Incomplete means, or it would mark it automatically. But still, it\u2019s better than manually tracking students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first week in every online class, I have an introductory discussion forum. I\u2019ve done many things here (asked for students to talk about themselves, respond to a news story, or discuss videos on being a college student) but the point is for me to know they are actively in the class, that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10092,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/10092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}