Arabic and Spanish video guides?

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 ord...

Integrating ServiceCloud and other ticketing systems

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 inf...

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...

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...

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...

Google LTI Auth Screen and the Big White Space

... not a children's book title.  We’re about to roll out, but I’m troubled by an issue when a new user is first authorizing their connection to Google Drive. I’m seeing a large amount of whi...

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...

OneClass security alert

Hi admins, I'm reviewing the OneClass security alert just posted, and I'm a little stuck on one question. According to the announcement, " If the user clicks this button, OneClass sends messages to ...

Culturally Responsive Canvas Courses

Tap/click map to enlarge Marc Lentini Highline College - HigherEd Students from different cultures and backgrounds experience our colleges, classes, and technologies in many ...

ServiceCloud and Spiceworks - Integration?

Hi fellow admins, We're exploring ticketing systems for our campus IT Service Desk, and with that, how to manage our workflow with ServiceCloud. If you've done some work with the various Ticketing...

Media Comment Tool - What breaks it?

We’re having a slew of issues with the media comment tool, across the full range of browsers and OS. The problems are not consistent, but happen steadily and regularly. We’ve tried the usual response...

Markdown and Canvas

Has anyone explored using Markdown and Canvas (especially the RCE)? I was just working up a bunch of content for a course, and thought I'd try it.  It went surprisingly well, considering the ...

New UI: Transition process and user-selectable feature flag?

I've been thinking about the new interface, and the transition process, and the more I think (bad idea? dunno) the more I find myself hoping that it should be an end user-selectable feature during th...

API endpoint for score on an assignment group?

Hi admins, I'm rummaging around in the API doc, and hoping to find a way to pull a piece of user data from a course. I'm stumped, and hoping the autonomous collective can help. I'd like to be ...