DanBurgess's Posts
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[New Quizzes] Shuffle Answers to apply to Categorization Question Type

Problem statement: The Categorization question type in New Quizzes does not support the shuffle answers function. The order of the categories and answers is always presented the to the student in th...

02-02-2024

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Missing External Tool Placements

In the classic assignment view, a website URL submission type would display tools that have a Homework Submission placement: Classic Interface   In the enhanced interface for the website UR...

09-14-2022

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[Collaborations] Auto Add New Students to Existing Collaborations

Problem statement: Students who are added to a course site after a Collaborations has been configured need to be manually added by instructor the existing Collaboration. Currently instructors must r...

09-07-2022

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[New Quizzes] Creation/Revision Timestamp for Quizzes

We have many folks who import quizzes via external tools or copy from other sites.  Having a creation/revision timestamp displayed next to the name could help folks identify a quiz after they im...

02-11-2022

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Microsoft Power Apps or other low-code platforms and Canvas

Hi Friends, I have been looking for a low-code platform to use with Canvas, primarily for administrative tasks. Anyone use Microsoft Power Apps and have any insights to share?   If you ...

12-15-2021

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New Quizzes and Speedgrader: Upgrade grade in Speedgrader after updating grade in New Quizzes

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Problem Currently in a New Quiz in Speedgrader, if you update the score of a question(s) and thus update the score of the quiz, the...

02-17-2021

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Act as User (Masquerade) for Sub-Account Admins

We have a need for our sub-account admins to be able to masquerade as users. Our sub-account admins are typically school/college level support staff that cannot be given account-wide access.  Th...

10-07-2020

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New Quizzes: Provide option to sort order of shuffled quiz questions in Speedgrader when grading

When grading quizzes that have used the Shuffle questions function, provide instructors a way to reorder (sort) the questions to a set order when grading. Currently when you use the shuffle q...

07-01-2020

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[SpeedGrader] Grade Posting: Make the eye icon clickable

To reduce the number of clicks to post grades for assignments utilizing a manual posting policy, make the eye icon above the assignment in the gradebook clickable.   This would streamline th...

09-16-2019

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Hosting UDOIT on OpenShift

Hello, We are exploring hosting UDOIT on OpenShift and are interested in discussing with anyone who has done this.

08-02-2018

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Can you help with all those apps?

Almost 300 apps in the EduAppCenter is great; lots of tools to extend the Canvas platform...but golly, that is a lot for us Canvas Admins to manage.  We have to make sure apps we use meet our st...

07-24-2017

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Multiple SIS imports into a single Canvas Instance

We have more than one unit (sub account) on our campus that utilizes a separate SIS system from the other units. Currently we appoint an SIS admin for the unit and allow them to upload the SIS updat...

11-18-2015

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Google Analytics for Course Activity and FERPA

I have a faculty member who would like to use Google Analytics at the course level. As I understand it, Google Analytics can only be turned on at the account or sub-account level using the Global Ja...

10-15-2015

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Nagios Scripts for Monitoring Canvas?

Would anyone have nagios scripts to share that you are using to monitor Canvas? I am looking for scripts that would exercise various parts of Canvas; something more than a "ping" of the Canvas insta...

10-14-2015

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