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dlyons
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There is a lot of traction on this request to Auto Save in Rich Content Editor but an intermediate step between here and there might be a warning when you are leaving a page with any unsaved changes. ...
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Disclaimer: This is really silly and you probably shouldn't do it but it's fun to know what's possible.Did you know you can grade with emoji in Canvas? It's true!  All you have to do is create a gradi...
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What is Icon Maker? Icon Maker will allow Teachers and Designers to create simple and reusable Icons directly inside the Canvas RCE. No LTIs or desktop software required!        Why did we build it? ...
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Getting media (Images, Documents, and Audio/Video) into the Rich Content Editor is pretty easy. Click Upload, drag and drop your file, click Submit, and you're done! Three steps isn't bad. But... ...
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I think this is exactly the time for a little cheer.Positive re-enforcement through this small act of acknowledging an on-time submission will have a positive impact on a learner's desire to submit on...
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Most Recent Posts

@mlabbett there haven't been many recent discussions. This need was settled on with lots of public discussions some months ago, but we had to pivot to address the UX issues above first. The checkpoint...
Sep 12, 2023 10:02:54 AM
@mlabbett that item is on the public roadmap! The term we've been using for it is "checkpoints" so keep your eyes open for that in future release notes and blog posts.
Sep 11, 2023 10:49:33 AM
    We started the conversation on How Many Buttons Is Enough? about the split buttons the Canvas RCE uses. If you didn't read that post, the tl;dr is that split buttons are bad for accessibility, ...
Dec 29, 2022 9:00:00 AM
@BenJam1n, deploys happen over the course of most of a day. But they completed yesterday afternoon as expected so you should be able to drag and drop in production now!
Dec 21, 2022 5:41:35 AM
@jlee16 you may have tested before the bugfix was deployed; when I just tried to drag and drop a video into an instance with Media Uploads disabled it did not work for me. Can you try again and let me...
Dec 9, 2022 4:24:45 PM

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