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But, does the final grade only take into account it being 100% not 125%? I thought it did, but it's been a while since I tested a grade book item or category with more than the total possible points.  ... View more

For accessibility and usability, you should avoid using titles. The Paciello Group gives a good explanation why in HTML5 Accessibility Chops: title attribute use and abuse. For definitions, I would recommend using links to another document  so that they are accessible to all. You could have a glossary document with anchors for each word.  Also, without the link, most users won't see the title. Very few move their mouse everywhere to see if there's a hidden link, much less a title lurking there. ... View more

I believe that has come from copying--possibly from Word, maybe simple from another webpage (even Canvas). Whenever you see such messy code with spans, it's almost always Word. ... View more

Cliff, I completely agree with you! I have only found one use case, across dozens of courses: putting the rubric on a draft assignment. Since that's the odd one out (and in all the Canvas courses I've worked on, I've seen this done once, and it could easily be accomplished by having the assignment worth 0 points, too), I agree that this checkbox should by default be on, or change the checkbox to "don't use this for grading"! AnnMarie ... View more

It's not working because your page URL doesn't end in .html. That is, to use an anchor, it has to look like https://college.instructure.com/courses/15123/pages/textbooks.html#books  AnnMarie ... View more

Have them post it in a discussion forum. ... View more

Nope, screen readers do not indicate emphasis of any kind, such as italics or bold (or underline, which should never be used except in links anyway). It doesn't matter if they are in CSS or HTML. It's simply not mentioned. (Which I think is a good thing. Imagine having to hear a sentence read with "bold" "unbold" read around certain words. It would throw me off the content.) ... View more

 @ryanp3 , I might be able to work with you. I can't figure out how to send a private message, so if you'd like to contact me, my email is annmariej at gmail. I've worked with Canvas for about 3 years and have been an ID for over 15. ... View more

Funds to go to 1-2 conferences (say, InstructureCon plus something like Madison WI's distance ed conference or Sloan-C's Orlando one [has a new name I forget what it is argh). Cost-wise, look up what they cost last year, add in current flight/drive/hotel cost. (Would they be willing to fund some faculty to attend, too? If so, ask for that!) Technology budget: to get a new gadget each year. Back when I was at a campus, we would get things like iPods, smart pens, drawing tablets, etc. when they first came out and then we figured them out [or gave to a hand picked faculty to do so] and introduced them to the campus. Money for a day long or half day showcase for campus (mainly for providing lunch, along with anything else the campus requires departments to pay for such as IT services, room reservations, or printing flyers). Student assistant. At my first campus, people liked giving funding for hiring students, especially if it was for work study (since that cost a lot less). ... View more

Thank you for this reminder! Is there an easy way to "view all pages and unpublish all of them"? I know I can see them on .../pages, but not everything immediately shows and there's no "publish/unpublish all." Thanks! ... View more

One other reason to code courses is for the registrar's office: they need to assign classrooms and times. A course that never meets F2F doesn't need a classroom. One that meets every other Wed can share the same classroom as a class that meets the opposite Weds. One university I worked at has strict definitions for classroom, hybrid (or maybe blended; it's been too long!) was 25-75% time replaced with online, online 0-25% of time meets face to face. (I disagreed with the latter, but we used it so that a course could have an orientation in person and still be called online.) Whether this is still useful for students, I don't know..... ... View more

I see it, too. I thought it was our custom CSS doing it! ... View more

I just reread your post and I think the difference in our views is: I don't think of category grades as "an average of the items in the category" but you do--hence your reference to computing averages. Rather, I think if it as a group of items that could total X points assignments. Each students gets some number of points on each assignment, total those points, and you get their points for the category. Other LMSes (I just saw one the other day) allow you to select how you want a category to work. Perhaps a feature request for you to write up? (P.S. I am also a faculty member and have a degree in math. I have seen faculty want it your way and those it want it the way Canvas does it. I work with whatever the LMS allows.) ... View more

All of these are images w/o links to the resource. Can you provide links, too? ... View more

Thank you! Glad to know it about title. However, for captions, Canvas still strips out align = "bottom" which is what we want to do on a specific table type (putting the caption below the table instead of at the top, which is the default). But not on all tables, so putting it in the CSS isn't a viable option. It also doesn't work as a style tag. Any other possibilities? AnnMarie ... View more

Anyone know how to request things be added to the whitelist? For instance, table caption alignment and title on iframes would be nice (the latter is required by our departments accessibility guidelines) ... View more

Both of these mathematical computations could be "correct" and both could be "incorrect." It's two different ways of computing a grade. And, like most things, we have to use it the way it is programmed. In addition, the existing way is the simplest way--assuming that the points are what you really want to score the students on. Assuming that you want everything in a group to be equally weighted is more complex (because you have to adjust it based on how many assignments there are in the group, rather than just adding everything up). I work with faculty who for the most part do not want everything in a group to be equally weighted and put the points in based on how much relative worth each item is (say, the project is 100 points, and the drafts are 10 points each and selecting a topic is 1 point). So to me, the current way is "correct"! ... View more

Nope, didn't work for me either. I also tried it as a link. There is didn't display either, possibly because it's http rather than https. However, it did work as a URL if opened in a new tab. ... View more