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MLentini · ‎12-08-2022

Two that I know of: Northwest eLearning Community Was October 10 – 14, 2022 online. Held annually, and this year's recordings are available. https://nwelearn.org/conference Washington State Canvas Conference (WACC) March 30-31, 2023 Hyflex (Face-to-face and online), Renton, WA https://wa-cc.org/

MLentini · ‎12-09-2021

I suspect it would have to have an instructor-controlled toggle, to support instructors who don't do extensions. Either way, some capacity for students to put in some text with details, or better yet, the date they propose completing the assignment, would be helpful.

MLentini · ‎03-08-2021

Adding Immersive Reader throughout Canvas was one of the first requests we got back from faculty when we turned on the Pages-only implementation. It's particularly valuable in assignments, so students can clearly understand what's expected of them.

MLentini · ‎02-23-2021

Regarding the New Quizzes and Peer Review Settings, will the fix update existing settings for quizzes that already display this behavior?

MLentini · ‎02-17-2021

If nothing else, the name/display name should be consistent across all the Canvas subsystems. The fact that it's not is a particular challenge for our international students (who often use a nickname or English name) and an outing risk for our trans students.

MLentini · ‎02-09-2021

This would be tremendously helpful. As David says, even if it's just something faculty can do for their entire course for a student, it would simplify things immensely. I'm sure an institutional role would be harder (and breaking out the relevant permissions, etc), but also would help with compliance and workload.

MLentini · ‎06-18-2020

Hi Scott, Is there a timeline for the shift? We're using many of the guides and videos embedding in a Canvas course for our training. Some are still even on the old-old Community platform. I'd love to consolidate around embedded guides in the new platform, but it might take a while. Thanks, Marc

MLentini · ‎03-24-2020

Hi fellow Canvas-ers, Like many of you, we're quickly trying to spin up remote learning options for our faculty and students, in light of Covid19 and, as of yesterday, a shelter-in-place order in our state. We're particularly concerned about many of our students who have limited tech abilities, so we're compiling student-facing resources in as many languages as possible. Does anyone out there have videos about basic student activities on Canvas, for instance logging in, submitting assignments, viewing feedback, you know the ones, in non-English languages? In particular, we're looking for Arabic or Spanish. We're using the text guides in Spanish, but would love to back those up with videos. Thanks for any help you can provide! Marc

MLentini · ‎06-20-2019

I think the specifics in that thread are a great start to the answer. One take-away is that mobile is hard. I get that, and it raises the larger question around balancing "hard to do" and "worth doing" when building out features in Canvas. Mobile is a Big Deal, so is it worth the effort (which means hours and funds, of course) to be mobile-first with features? I think I'd like to hear more about the philosophy that drives decisions like that.

MLentini · ‎06-17-2019

We know that many of our students, particularly disadvantaged students, are mobile-only or mobile-first, so a tool that doesn't include mobile on equal footing is a non-starter on our campus. Why weren't interactions from mobile included in Analytics 2 when it was first released? And when will they be included? How are decisions about releasing product that's mobile-ready (or not) made?

MLentini · ‎01-11-2019

Hi admins, We’re looking at ways to better integrate ServiceCloud and our in-house ticketing system. We’d like to be able to keep tickets in ServiceCloud (for easier escalation), but have the information also drop in our main system. (We're using SolarWinds, FWIW). I’ve been reviewing the old Ticketing System Choice post, and also the ServiceCloud options post in Community. It seems like some of the email options might do the job, or just a straight-up email/web connector. If you're not handling Canvas tickets using the ServiceCloud (cases.canvaslms.com) system, how are you doing it? Thanks, Marc

MLentini · ‎12-07-2018

Hi Sara, Unfortunately, no. There's not a lot of interest in this from Canvas, and we're still slogging through how to do it at an institutional policy level. We have started to conclude whole quarters, where previously we left course concludes at the discretion of the instructors. Students can still access the materials, but can't participate (e.g. post to discussions). There's a tension we haven't quite resolved... On the one hand, privacy of the students and reducing the records we keep on hand, as well as storage considerations. On the other, so many materials are only available to students via the LMS. As a community college, many of our students don't complete their programs on a tightly scripted schedule (e.g. 2-3 years), so I hesitate to cut off access to their past course materials prematurely. * I still think it's a valid conversation, and saw an Instcon presentation a few years ago about how one college is anonymizing student identities when they do research. That feels like a piece of the puzzle for maintaining the value of the data for supporting learning analytics, but protecting student records. I just haven't put the rest of the pieces together. * Yeah, I'm they guy with a textbook from my Socio-technical Systems course on the shelf behind me... and I still reference it. Marc

MLentini · ‎11-09-2018

Honestly, a button on the user profile page that says "nuke this user's tokens" (or something like that) would at least solve the high-priority problem. And that seems relatively easy to do. The API call would be nice, because then we could just plug the call into our script for disabling accounts. I think there are three different scenarios emerging here: Delete tokens for a single user, or for a batch of users who are leaving the institution. This happens every quarter; it's just a part of our business as academic institutions. Delete everyone's tokens. This has never come up for us. I can see the general security concern for this, though. Disallow mobile access. If I had a vote, or was in charge of the world, I'd probably advocate for them in roughly that order. Marc

MLentini · ‎09-19-2018

This is the first two weeks of every quarter for us. Our SIS (don't ask, it's older than you are) integration is only reliable with transactional data, so every time a student gets dropped and re-added, the instructor loses group enrollments. It would be great to see Canvas retain this information along with all the other student info it retains!

MLentini · ‎06-26-2018

Won't be in Keystone, but can #remotepandas play too?

MLentini · ‎04-19-2018

Pretty nice. Thanks for this. Has anyone come across some kind of guidance (best practices, outright standards, etc.) around creating and using LTIs? It'd be great if there was something to point vendors to that offered suggestions like "don't make stuff automatically visible."

MLentini · ‎02-12-2018

It would be lovely to have an API endpoint for this. We script some of our authentication/de-authentication work, so it would be ideal to automate this for Canvas as well.

MLentini · ‎02-12-2018

We just had this come up. Admins can't delete the tokens while masquerading. There are a couple of kludgy ways to do it (create a second login for that user, etc.), but this could certainly be a lot cleaner.

MLentini · ‎01-26-2018

Hi Robbie, No, this hasn't been resolved. I met with a few folks in the Google/Canvas tent at InstructureCon. We were able to identify the appropriate CSS handlers, and they agreed that this was not particularly awesome. But in terms of a fix, no, it's still like this. Marc

MLentini · ‎12-07-2017

No, I never really heard from anyone, so I think we're going to (eventually, dev resources are pretty strained right now) hack something together.

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Accessibility of built in equation editor? In talking about accessibility and campus, several of our faculty have asked about the equation editor in the RCE. From what I can tell, it encodes using LaTeX, which is (I think?) readable by screen...	11-01-2017	3421	7
One more take on the Canvas Intelligence Exchange I can't add much to the bits already shared about the Canvas Intelligence Exchange, as I was behind the scenes most of the day. I'll share a bit about that in a minute. I'll second (third? fourth?) t...	08-03-2017	714	8
When will the faculty/course analytics show stats from mobile apps? Currently, activity students do on the mobile apps doesn't show in the faculty analytics. We have about 20% of our students using mobiles to access their content, and many of them are among the stude...	07-21-2017	536	6
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Document Retention and Canvas Course Content Our campus has recently started a discussion about document retention policies around email and paper documents. In general, this is something the legal folks are concerned about as a liability issue...	02-03-2017	1983	4
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