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RobDitto
Rob Ditto
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Rob Ditto is a Technical Director for instructional technology and content at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. After nine years managing content delivery technology for several interactive media firms, Rob went "back to school" in 1997, helping Wharton launch its award-winning WebCafe service supporting faculty teaching and student collaboration in the School's group-learning-oriented curriculum. Beginning in 2011, Rob helped bring the Canvas LMS to Penn. Rob holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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The awesome Files feature would be even better if it could indicate that a file is linked elsewhere within your course -- on a Page, from other rich content, or as a Module item -- in an unobtrusive w...
The wonderful New Course Search in Canvas Production Release 2018-03-10 unfortunately removes the option to sort listings of courses based on course creation date. Admins regularly need to work with ...
Our standing faculty have requested that the Switch to Old Files Page button should remain available through May 2026. I realize this is unlikely to happen, though we'll be advising the CSM worki...
This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Idea open for vote Wed. June 1, 2016 - Wed. September 7, 2016 Learn more about voting...This idea is a companion to Prof. Clint Tut...
Provided courses aren't already working with this tool, here's a manual version of @James ' approach which you could try:Customizing the tool's XML configurationDeleting the app f...
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Our standing faculty have requested that the Switch to Old Files Page button should remain available through May 2026. I realize this is unlikely to happen, though we'll be advising the CSM worki...
Just to close the loop on the incident from July 9, 2025: according to Canvas Support, it was due to a bug in the deploy that morning which was considered patched approximately 12 hours later. Sooner...
@NoahBoswell can you share where the New Quizzes slow load times issue was reported? I've been looking in the usual places (status page, Known Issues) and don't see anything.
To all: Our ...
For what it's worth: we're an institutional customer of Honorlock and have known it to support New Quizzes for several years, with improvements to that support delivered in 2024.
Not meaning t...
Building on @EmilyCottrell's questions above, I want to ask a clarifying question:
How long should we expect Switch to Old Files Page to remain available to end-users?
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