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Hi All, We've put together a script here at Strath to allow us to send messages to the observers of students from the Canvas Inbox (Conversations) and Marksbook ('Message Students Who...') pages. We're a K-12 institution, so while the ability to send messages to students who have not submitted their assignments is awesome, sometimes we need to let their parents know too! It looks a little something like this: It's pretty simple. The script inserts some buttons on the 'Message Students Who...' and Inbox 'Send Message' buttons for inserting observers and removing students. Once clicked, the script does a few API calls in the background to determine who the observers of the students are and pops them in the recipient list. Our CSM mentioned this might be something that other institutions might be interested in, so I've made the script and some instructions available here: https://github.com/sdjrice/msgobs. If you decide to give it a crack, I'd be interested to hear how it goes! I've tested this with a demo Canvas instance and it's worked ok, but that's the extent of my testing. All the best! --------------- Download v0.07 Here: https://github.com/sdjrice/msgobs --------------- Changelog: Version 0.07 on 17/04/20 Fixed issue where conversations (Inbox) recipients would become invalid after a recipient was removed. Version 0.06 on 11/10/17 Added support for courses with more than one hundred enrolments. Version 0.05 on 07/07/17 Added auto tick "Send an individual message to each recipient" function. This behaviour is active by default, but can be disabled in the msgobs options. Version 0.04 on 06/07/17 Fixed issue where multiple course enrolment lookups were made for the same course in account admin mode. Version 0.03 on 03/07/17 Added support for any kind of group in the recipient list. Version 0.02 on 15/03/17 Fixed issue with unescaped message content. Prevented clicking Remove Students while Include observers function is running. Added dialog to preserve message content if sending fails in Gradebook function. Version 0.01 on 20/09/16 Initial Release ... View more

I see they have updated and have permissions for adding a sub to your canvas course. It does not say anywhere what abilities it gives the sub. This would be nice for when we need to add teachers but they should not be editing content or grading.  ... View more

I would love to hear from you! I would like to get a group collaboration going with the goal of setting up Tina Hargaden's Stepping Stones curriculum structure  in Canvas. It could be as simple as embedding the Padlet into a Module; but since my district is moving to Canvas and the students will be using it in all of their classes, I would like to see how I can leverage the features in Canvas to move smoothly through the Cycles and Phases---- virtually, face-to-face, or hybrid.  If you are in a similar situation, and need or can offer help, please speak up!  I teach high school German, Levels 1-4 in SC (30 years!), but of course all languages/levels are relevant. Any amount of experience with CI, Stepping Stones and Canvas is welcome! A good goal, I think, would be to get a generic (not language-specific) Stepping Stones shell into the Commons. It would be wondrous, of course, if we ultimately had Master Courses for each language in the Commons, loaded with content for each language! (I can dream, can't I?) So if you would like to be involved, please introduce yourself! Let us know the languages, levels, and grades you teach, where and how long. I have some experience with CI and Stepping Stones (a few years of teaching mostly Description and Narration, using the the daily framework and many of the strategies, plus a Summer Institute in June), but much less with  Canvas (a two-day training in June, that's it). How about you? ... View more

Hi everybody, we're a new K-6 online school using Canvas. Handwritten work is important to our curriculum and pedagogy and necessary for our young students who can't type. As such, for assignments, we're having students photograph their work on paper and submit the .JPG's. We're also having students record videos of themselves reciting poetry, answering questions, and doing other things. Unfortunately, this is causing us to quickly approach our storage limits. Parents are uploading multiple 3 MB smartphone photos of worksheets every day, and this is clearly unsustainable.  My question is: how are other elementary schools handling assignment submissions? If you are having students take photos, is there a way to compress or export the images after a week or two? I'm very interested to hear what solutions you've come up with. Thanks.  ... View more