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John_Lowe · ‎03-09-2023

I came here looking for a resolution to this as well. Kaltura wants to add My Media to the Global Navigation in their LTI 1.3 configuration, and the global navigation menu is so crowded already -- particularly with seldom used items like History.

John_Lowe · ‎12-14-2022

We are considering standardizing some of the job titles for members of our Learning Systems team. Right now, we have a Project Managers, Application Programmer Analysts, and Academic Consultants. Yet, all three positions are really the systems administrators for the LMS, web conferencing tools, WordPress environments, Qualtrics platform, and many other academic technologies. The current job titles seem to vary based on when each person entered our organization rather than vary in job duties. Academic Consultant seems to be our organizational default for many new positions lately, but that really isn’t accurate for these roles and sounds too much like a Student Services or academic support position title. In your organization, what job titles do you use for the group of folks who provide system administration and user-support/training for your LMS and other academic systems?

John_Lowe · ‎12-08-2022

We are considering standardizing some of the job titles for members of our Learning Systems team. Right now, we have a Project Managers, Application Programmer Analysts, and Academic Consultants. Yet, all three positions are really the systems administrators for the LMS, web conferencing tools, WordPress environments, Qualtrics platform, and many other academic technologies. The current job titles seem to vary based on when each person entered our organization rather than vary in job duties. Academic Consultant seems to be our organizational default for many new positions lately, but that really isn’t accurate for these roles and sounds too much like a Student Services or academic support position title. In your organization, what job titles do you use for the group of folks who provide system administration and user-support/training for your LMS and other academic systems?

John_Lowe · ‎11-17-2022

Not sure how to vote on this, but YES, absolutely YES. The Designers role is to manage content, so why exclude New Quizzes from that content type.

John_Lowe · ‎07-21-2022

This information helps tremendously! We discovered most of this through trial-and-error testing, but this makes it perfectly clear what the default behavior is or should be. One little caveat that we uncovered that relates to the "once a change is made by the sub-account or course" comment is that this applies to the old Feature Option as well. If a course had it enabled as a Feature Option, that checkbox becomes automatically checked in that course regardless of the other account or sub-account level settings. Seeing that randomly checked in some courses during our testing really threw us for a loop until we realized what was happening.

John_Lowe · ‎01-13-2022

What is the best way for a teacher in one course to verify the activities completed in another course? Specifically, all student are required to complete an Academic Integrity Quiz in an Academic Integrity Course. How can a random History professor easily verify whether or not a student has completed that quiz in that other course? I could see this also being a need for courses that have Lab sections taught by a different instructor or GA. How can the main course Teacher verify that the student completed the Lab course assignments without actually having access to the Lab course? Has anyone explored badges or something similar to manage these types of credentials?

John_Lowe · ‎12-14-2021

@nwilson7 Yes, that would be ideal. Unfortunately, that's not been our experience with these MS tools. Also, since they use Inherited Keys, you can't even change the JSON config yourself. Ideally, Microsoft would let us do our own LTI 1.3 configuration so we can edit the JSON as needed rather than forcing us to use inherited keys.

John_Lowe · ‎12-13-2021

@nwilson7 Yes, the Teams Classes and Teams Meetings LTIs install automatically in an active state. Also, they are labeled as "Microsoft Teams classes" with lowercase "c" in classes and "Microsoft Teams meetings" with lowercase "m". For us, those two items are things we change via the API. I'm using the following in Postman to make the default navigation disabled and to fix the name to our liking. You just need to find out your tool_id value and plug it in as appropriate for each tool. {{host}}/api/v1/accounts/:account_id/external_tools/:tool_id?course_navigation[default]=disabled&name=Microsoft Teams Meetings

John_Lowe · ‎10-18-2021

I'm noticing the same issue, but it seems like the #2 scrollbar is somewhat incorrectly sized. In our environment, users must use #3 to scroll down far enough to see the bottom of the #2 scrollbar. Very annoying, and this default behavior hides the last few course nav items. More precisely, the #2 scrollbar is offset by the exact amount of the course content pane header window. Scrolling #3 moves the header up so you can see the full height of the #2 scrollbar.

John_Lowe · ‎08-20-2021

Another reason to quit messing with the inherited keys is that some of us have used the Canvas API to change the course navigation to default off because we don't have access to modify the JSON in inherited keys. Every account and subaccount where Classes and Meetings were previously off are now back on again when the inherited keys were recently changed. So now, every single course shows these navigation items again even though we are trying to keep the clutter out of our course navigation menus. We have roughly 30 LTIs installed, and we keep them all defaulted off for the course navigation placement so faculty can choose to add the tools they want to use to their course navigation menus rather than having their course navigation menus cluttered up with things they may never use. Webex by Cisco is off by default. Zoom is off by default. So we really want to keep Teams Meetings also off by default to give faculty the freedom of choice without forcing non-native tools into their navigation menus.

John_Lowe · ‎08-20-2021

Could I request that Microsoft folks settle on the naming convention for these LTIs and stop changing them in the inherited client IDs? This is really messing with our ability to create screenshots, recordings, or other documentation for our faculty when one day the links in the course navigation says Microsoft Teams and Teams Meeting but the next day say "Microsoft Teams classes" and "Microsoft Teams meetings" -- including the inconsistent letter cases. Whatever they are going to be called, please decide that soon and keep it consistent for us. Also, my personal preference would be the original "Microsoft Teams" for the classes LTI (which simply launches the appropriate team in the Microsoft Teams apps) and "Teams Meetings" for the meetings LTI which are shorter two-word names. At the very least, keep the capitalization consistent. In all our LTIs and native Canvas tools, these are now the only ones I can find that have a lower-case word in the course navigation. Even Instructure's new, very obnoxious, three-line, space-wasting "BigBlueButton (Formerly Conferences)" listing has initial caps. Ideally, could you make it available for us to create our own keys like we'd need to do for the OneDrive LTI rather than forcing us to use the inherited keys for these two LTIs? That way institutions could have a little more control over the JSON for things like default placement and naming.

John_Lowe · ‎08-20-2021

Hi, @EveWhitelaw. In our testing of the Teams Meetings LTI, we saw something somewhat similar. However, everyone in the course roster in Canvas who was also in our Microsoft tenant was automatically added when we used the "Add entire class" link. The only people who were not added were the Canvas people who were not in our Microsoft tenant (as could be expected). After you use that "Add entire class" link, we are still able to manually invite the email addresses of the people outside of our tenant simply by typing their email address in the box like you would do with normal Teams Meetings scheduled through Microsoft Teams directly. This is cumbersome, but it at least is available as a workaround while Microsoft sorts this all out and automatically invites external non-tenant email addresses to the meetings scheduled through this LTI. Basically, as it functions now, the "add entire class" link seems to only invite users from the Microsoft tenant who also match the Canvas roster rather than inviting everyone on the Canvas roster regardless if they are in the Microsoft tenant. This is also evident in those who have different profile photos in Canvas from their Microsoft tenant account.

John_Lowe · ‎08-18-2021

Just for clarification, I know that many requests can send a "per_page" parameter to increase the default number of results returned, but even in the List Terms example above, we have 102 active terms and the max per page is 100. So we are stuck in pagination just to get the last 2 results. So ANY help finding a way to do automatic pagination via Postman for simple queries would be much appreciated.

John_Lowe · ‎08-18-2021

I've seen the posts from several years ago about this topic, but I've yet to actually find an answer yet, so I thought I'd ask here again. Has anyone found a way in Postman to automatically follow Next links in order to get a complete list in one output? For example, using /api/v1/accounts/:account_id/terms, has anyone found a way to grab a complete list of all their terms without sending separate GETs manually to request page 2 or page 3 of results? If so, I'd LOVE to see an example or get a brief walk-through on how you did it. I hate having to write a custom script just to get beyond the API paging limitations or running a bunch of manual updates to copy/pasting output into another application for simple things that apps like Postman could do quickly and easily for us.

John_Lowe · ‎08-16-2021

@saelterman I just came across these two collections, but apparently Postman wants them to be converted to v2 before importing. Do you have updated links by chance that you could share again?

John_Lowe · ‎08-09-2021

Thanks, @erik_gustafson . I wasn't sure that would work with these inherited keys, but we'll give it a shot! Appreciate the tip!!

John_Lowe · ‎08-09-2021

Can the JSON be modified (or another version created) where the course navigation placement is defaulted to disabled? If we could create our own keys rather than using the inherited one, that type of change would be easy enough to accomplish.

John_Lowe · ‎12-11-2019

We had considered that option as well. However, since most likely these spammers have spreadsheets full of stolen credit cards, we are afraid that we'd just be creating a bigger hassle for ourselves with charge-backs, refunds, etc.

John_Lowe · ‎12-11-2019

How is your institution dealing with the problem of spammers finding Canvas Catalog sites, self-registering and then self-enrolling in free open courses for the sole purpose of posting Spam messages. Originally, they were simply creating spam ePortfolios, so we had Instructure disable that functionality entirely. Then they moved on to using anything inside the free courses to post their spam — discussion boards, messages to other students, and even conference descriptions. We’ve had to essentially disable ALL forms of student collaboration or discussion in our Canvas Catalog instance. So far, the official solution from Instructure seems to be to disable self-registration, but does that mean canceling our contracts for Canvas Catalog? The primary business purpose of Canvas Catalog *is* to enable self-registration. It is essentially a pretty, public-facing, front-door to our LMS, and the best solution from Instructure so far has been to close the door. How are other schools handling this situation?

John_Lowe · ‎12-10-2019

In your organization, are your Instructional Designers considered faculty or staff as their primary designation? I know many IDs also teach, so I'm not considering that ancillary function in my question, but rather is the primary job function of an Instructional Designer position considered a staff position or a faculty position.

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