If we're strictly talking about typography, formatting a document, and more specifically a web document, then using all caps is perfectly acceptable for the title of a document or a web page.
The title of a web page should be at the top and stand out and provide meaning. For the Web and HTML, this is usually done once on the page using the H1 Section Heading | MDN, adjusting the weight of the font, adding a background and many other ways to bring it emphasis.
In Canvas that usually looks like this
Research Reasons for Avoiding All Caps
RESEARCH REASONS FOR AVOIDING ALL CAPS
Since Canvas places the title in the page for us, what really becomes important is the format of the entire document (the page currently in view), and all text, images, and elements that are displayed appropriately provide good meaning and importance to the content. Such as appropriate headings based on the hierarchy and relationships of content. Then there is consistency and uniformity.
Consistency
The instructor should make sure that use of all caps for the titles is consistent across their entire course, or at least document types; pages, assignments, modules, discussions, can all be cased differently as long as they are consistent within the group.
Consistency has it's own issues, depending on how the teacher or the school sets up titles throughout Canvas.
All Caps Becomes Much More - Ch1
DIFFICULT - TO DISTINGUISH - M2.1
M1:L1 WHEN | YOU TRY TO SEPARATE MEANING
Uniformity
It may be good practice for the school to set best practices and create a style guide. Whether anyone uses all caps or not then becomes a discussion of readability, accessibility and how students and screen readers might interpret differences in text and HTML. If these things aren't important then...
Uniformity has issues too. :smileycool:
IMHO
How it appears on the page and whether it's readable on all screen sizes, devices, browsers, and the mobile apps is the most important. The standards for typography, formatting documents, and the web's guidelines will outlast the preferences of any one of it's users, so we should probably focus on making our content easy for the student and easily manageable and deployable for ourselves.
more:
All caps | Butterick’s Practical Typography
All caps | Typography for Lawyers
All caps - Wikipedia
http://typographyhandbook.com/ - see Visual Hierarchy and Law of Proximity
Fundamental text and font styling - Learn web development | MDN
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