Something has always bothered be about the way canvas handles linked documents... While it might not seem important to someone who uses a computer as the main means to complete their job, I have found that many of our users who simply need to view the document unnecessarily download it. This creates confusion and wasted hard drive space.
I propose that the default action when the title is clicked, should be to open the preview, and that a download button should be placed beside the main link.
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hensonj This would be the ideal action for clicking on a link. I know it took me a while, when I first started using Canvas, to train myself to click on the preview button instead of the link if I only wanted to view the document, and I still see some faculty struggle with this concept.
Keep up the good work everyone. I encourage everyone to tell their colleagues, friends, enemies, lovers, children, pets, crystal balls, window gardens, NSA operatives (simply talk into the ether), or anyone(thing) else that will listen to check out and up vote this idea, because I know, we've already come so far:
Thanks for letting us know about the issue with the voting here in Jive. For those that didn't click through, here is what @scottdennis said on the issue:
This is a the result of a known bug that was introduced with Jive's most recent quarterly update. They have identified a fix and it will be rolled to production with the next quarterly release (makes me grateful for three week release cycles). In the meantime, if you click to vote up and it registers as a down vote, you can just click upvote again to change it to a vote up. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I hate to confess this in public, but . . . when I first started using Canvas I didn't understand the meaning of those teeny icons next to a link and ignored them. Any UI that makes software behavior more overt, especially for us old fogies , is welcome. This suggestion is a helpful and logical default.
We've broken the 100 up vote barrier! Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to vote. Please consider sharing this with colleagues and friends at instcon or your institution.
Again, Id love to hear what criticisms people have, as I truly believe that this makes the ideas stronger and helps us all understand the potential pitfalls that we may not have seen
I respect ones right to down vote, but would appreciate any explanation.
I sincerely believe you did! as mentioned above, there is currently a bug in Jive that sporadically down votes when up vote is clicked. Thanks for your support!