dspiel's Posts
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New Discussion should show group postings immediately upon entering

Instructors dislike how the group feature works within the new discussions. When they enter there is no immediate means of knowing if there are new messages. Possibly make the dual people icon turn a...

11-16-2023

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Will they please remove pages from the discussions and just allow a long thread

There is no reason for having discussions broken up into pages. Please just make a discussion thread on one page.

10-30-2023

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[Groups] Ability to set a default view for a courses Group page

Problem statement: The course that opens for students when doing a group assignment can be confusing. Just as when a new instructor first sees a new Canvas course with all the links they need to be ...

07-20-2023

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[Accessibility] Rich Content Editor Auto captioning of media recorder within a course

Problem statement: Media recordings within Canvas don't allow for auto-captioning and are difficult to accomplish at best. I understand purchasing Canvas Studio can resolve some of the issues, but t...

09-28-2022

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[Admin Tools] Ability to restore all students after un-concluding a course

Problem statement: Ability to restore all prior students once a course has been un-concluded instead of one by one Proposed solution: Having the ability to restore all students at one time from...

09-01-2022

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[Global Announcements] Duplicate button for Global Announcements

Problem statement: Having a duplicate button/option on Global announcements would help speed up publishing announcements instead of copying and pasting content. Proposed solution: Add a button ...

08-18-2022

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[Syllabus] Dynamically add code to the Syllabus or a Page

All the ability to add code dynamically to the page by using js or some other method. The thought behind this is at the college level there is a huge chunk of information added to a syllabus. ...

06-06-2022

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[New Quizzes] Under Question Banks have the ability to see quizzes linked to it

Similar to Assignments where you can see what modules an assignment might be listed, it would be nice to have the ability when in Quiz Banks to see if it is associated/linked to a particular quiz.

05-15-2022

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[Blueprint Courses] Warning when saving an linked item to a blueprint course

When a course is linked to a Blueprint course and a change is made on an unlocked item have an additional box come up to confirm the save is desired and will disassociate from the Blueprint course an...

09-23-2021

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Activity logs to also show "what-if" changes

It would be helpful when students use the "what-if" to be tagged within the logs so that admins or instructors can have information when students attempt to use that info to claim an instructor has g...

03-11-2021

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[Assignments] Do not drop assignments until after there are more than the rule...

Add to rules on Assignment Categories to not drop assignments until after there are x more than the rule... When setting up rules within assignments to drop x number of assignments there should be ...

02-04-2021

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[Admin Tools] Campus level IEP settings for a student that Admins can set

It would be nice to have at the Admin level that when a student has an IEP for let us say 1.5x or 2x on their exams or assignments that we can go in and put that info in at a student level that autom...

10-27-2020

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Besides locking an item within the Blueprint course, selective release items to certain sections

Within a Blueprint course, you can lock an item from being changed within courses.  A useful feature would also be able to release certain content based on section ID as well as the ability to d...

09-17-2020

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New Quizzes: Add paper to quiz question using web cam

Within quizzes have a question that allows for image upload from the webcam.  It could ask if there is a second sheet of paper and so on and then it would create a PDF that is submitted.  T...

06-09-2020

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