Allow Users to switch back to old Rich Content Editor and old Media Player

[walter_halil]

In the new RCE embedded media icons are much larger and take up a huge amount of space compared to the old RCE thereby making the assignments bulky looking and less accessible to elementary age students. The older method of select text and emebed gave a more streamlined look and was much easier to use.

The new RCE media player is too limited with regards to playback speed. The previous media player allowed a user to slow down the media to .75 speed which is necessary for students to learn new content. .5 speed is too slow and the recordings are garbled when they play back making it unusable. The same goes for speeding things up: 1.25 speed is a nice challenge for the students and the media is intelligible. 1.5 speed is too fast and the sound quality is no longer musical.

The new media player is also too small in size and lacks CC capability. We have hearing impaired and LEP learners in our school who need the CC functionality!

Having to search menus for everything takes more steps which slows down the process and requires the user to have to remember more procedures. This takes more work on our part to create content.

The new RCE requires many additional steps and is in many ways counterintuitive making our jobs as educators even more difficult than they already are.

Canvas needs to allow teachers the choice of which RCE to use or, at the very least, which media player to use.

Here are the links to the new and old RCE assignments so you can see how clunky content created with the new RCE looks:

Old RCE assignment: https://browardschools.instructure.com/courses/1129828/assignments/19988641

New RCE assignment: https://browardschools.instructure.com/courses/1129828/assignments/21863522

[Stef_retired]

@walter_halil The Old RCE reached its official end of life on January 16, 2021 and will no longer be supported. Please contact the local Canvas admin for your school to see if switching back to the Old RCE is an option they will make available for their users.

If you'd like to suggest enhancements to the new RCE, please search for existing ideas to support that align with what you're hoping to see. The product manager's blog post New RCE - Launch Update! - Canvas Community is a good place to post general feedback.

Thanks.