What thoughts do we have for such a system being configured to auto assign points but also have an instructor capability to deduct points for off topic content, spelling issues, etc. ... View more

To follow up, images are added to assignments, pages, etc. So if a student views the page they are then viewing the text and visuals. ... View more

@jozsefdavid -  Hello!  The data source is the Canvas Data Requests table which has a user agent field.  The data in that field is then converted into the usage stats using calculated fields. This approach was first introduced by Brenden_goetz in 2016 or thereabouts.   Best, Jeff ... View more

Yesterday I reviewed data from the first two weeks of February to understand our student use profile for devices and browsers. Device usage: 65% of activity is on a PC 20% of activity is on a Mac 7% of activity is on an iPhone 3% of activity is on an Android device 2% of activity is on an iPad And browser usage: 62% of the population are using Chrome 21% of the population are using Safari 5% are using the Canvas app 4% are using Firefox 1% are using Edge What conclusions might be drawn from these stats?  ... View more

Additional issues: Studio - Searching & In Video Quiz Creation  - https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Studio-Discussion/Studio-Searching-In-Video-Quiz-Creation/td-p/224285    A few wish lists are posted here and I am copying them below.  Fulfilled topics are noted by a strikethrough  -- https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/The-Product-Blog/A-quick-glimpse-at-Studio-plans-for-the-next-quarter/ba-p/470713  Topic Summary Our Urgency Status Workaround Quiz copy Currently Studio quizzes do not course copy.  A Studio quiz is a user owned object. Medium Idea posted to the Community  on 8/28/20. Use H5P or a quiz that follows the video in a separate activity. Improved Analytics Improve existing dashboard within the course so that instructors do not need to click each student to view details on viewership.  i.e., an aggregation Medium It is currently challenging to see which students view the content as it is time consuming to click each student name. Instructors simply will not click 15- 35 student names to see if they viewed the media. Add graded quiz during video to promote viewing.  But then we have the above issue. Video titles One cannot see the title of the video after it has been embedded. Low Need the title depicted at the top of the player as an overlay before the title plays – or maybe have the title appear as a mouse over action? Idea posted to Community on 4/26/21.Note: the HTML iframe tag that the RCE creates when embedding the video in the page is lacking the title attribute which violates best practices for accessibility. Instructional Designers are typing the name of the video and duration (h:mm:ss) above the embed. Improved filtering At times filtering by tags does not function. Is there a lag time between when the tag is entered and when a search will list that media with the newly added tag in the results? Low A related idea: Better Sorting/ Filtering for Canvas Studio - Posted on 6/24/20.   List view Currently a gallery view is available. Low Request had been posted to community a year ago.  However, it appears we need to repost as a new idea as they changed community tools and I cannot find the idea.   Permissions An additional layer of permissions.  View, Edit, Own. Edit access can allow users to edit but not delete content. Low     Playlist A media player that shows videos added to a playlist. Low Posted to Community on 4/27/21. Add multiple videos to the page. Replace media file Replacing the media without having to re-embed the title. Low Posted to Community on 5/19/19. None. Studio access via SpeedGrader Enable easier creation of screen recordings for student feedback creation. Low Posted to Community on 5/22/20.   Ability to export list of titles and metadata Desire ability for admins to export a list of titles within a community or for an account.  Include metadata to include: title, duration, description, tags, closed captions created?, # of plays, placements, collection, account owner, date uploaded, etc. Low     Batch process caption requests Via Studio account settings, create a tool that enables identification of uncaptioned titles within an account or Studio collection and configure so that captions are automatically requested. For example, a setting that has all uploaded videos has captions auto generated.  Related to: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Studio-closed-caption-as-default/idi-p/403772 Low If this is not doable via an addition of a new Setting due to potential overhead concerns, is there a means to do this via the API?  Example: Establish a process that pulls the list of titles in a certain collection, apply a filter to identify those without captions, batch request captions for these. GET /api/media_management/caption_files/:id   Allow 1.25x speed for viewing An option to play videos at 1.25x speed would be the perfect middle ground between 1x and 1.5x. Low Posted to Community on 6/25/2020.       Topic Summary Discussion Notes No Transcript support. No easy way to view a transcript of a video. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Enable-closed-captions-transcripts-to-be-avai... Workaround at https://etop.landmark.edu/transcript.html Captioning requires intervention to create Ideally, automatic captioning would occur upon uploading. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Question-Forum/Why-doesn-t-Canvas-Studio-automatically-caption-v... This likely means a very small percentage of our videos will get captioned. Captioning requires intervention to view. No way to show captions by default. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Studio-closed-caption-as-default/idi-p/403772...   No Thumbnails in Canvas It seems only the native media record/upload utility offers a thumbnail of the video on a Canvas page. Canvas also makes thumbnails for YouTube videos. All others use iframe which dedicates the space for the full playback. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Canvas-Studio-Resizing-Embedded-Media/idc-p/4...   No upload “as user” for admin. An instructional designer or admin cannot upload a video on behalf of an instructor (without using “Act As…” which is limited to superadmins). https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Enable-Admin-Upload-for-Canvas-Studio/idi-p/3...   No Editing once uploaded.   https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Studio-video-re-editing-anytime/idi-p/370489 This means even a very slight video edit will require another upload, and every place the media is embedded courses will need to be reworked along with reworking captions. Cannot replace media without changing URL   https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Replace-media-in-Studio/idi-p/350511 This means even a very slight video edit will require another upload, and every place the media is embedded courses will need to be reworked along with reworking captions. Cannot transfer ownership of videos by admin.   https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Enable-Admin-Upload-for-Canvas-Studio/idi-p/35... If an instructor is replaced, all content will need to be downloaded by an admin and the new instructor will need to re-upload all videos and place them inside the course content along with caption files. Cannot make videos downloadable retroactively. If a video is uploaded with the ability for viewers to download it disabled, that switch cannot be changed without re-uploading the video (creating a new URL) https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Allow-download-of-videos-from-Modules-Canvas-...   Suggestion: Allow various sizes when embedding.   https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Canvas-Studio-Resizing-Embedded-Media/idc-p/4... Would avoid need to edit HTML. Suggestion: Allow selecting new thumbnail by scrubbing already uploaded video to desired frame.   https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Studio-Select-new-thumbnail-by-scrubbing-vide... Would avoid having to create and upload thumbnail image locally. Suggestion: Hide toolbar unless mouse is over embedded video. Toolbar/Control Strip obscures video content. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Can-we-move-the-control-strip-in-Studio-vid... Alternative solution would be to move control strip outside of the active video area or make it transparent. Suggestion: Put captions at bottom of frame.   https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Captioning-in-Arc-at-the-Bottom-of-the-Video/... Bottom is more commonly accepted location. Potential for collision with comments. Suggestion: Open-ended Questions for Video Quizzes   https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Canvas-Studio-Open-ended-Questions-for-video-q...     ... View more

How many votes does each person have to cast? Just one, a set (e.g., 5), or as many as we wish?   ... View more

@IrmaCris  - one possible approach is to set a due date for the discussion and then after you reach a point where you no longer accept new posts, go to the discussion page and move the forum to 'Closed for Comments'. Students can still read the posts but cannot add new comments. ... View more

@ToshiroPolak - we have three campuses using the same Canvas instance. Is it possible to contract and deploy Impact to a single campus? For example, deploy to a single subaccount 1 (and all the subaccounts under that)? -------------- 3/14 update: from our excellent CSM: Hey Jeff,  It can. We can configure to a sub account without the root account. Please let me know if there are additional questions.  Kind Regards,  ... View more

@Edina_Tipter   Re: Those customers who have purchased the Hosted Data Services will have their data warehouse transitioned automatically.   Hello - we are a hosted customer and I am being asked for additional details on the timing aspect of this transition. In the FAQ there is a response to a similar question that says 3 months of overlap. When does that start (and end)? https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Data-Access-Platform-Canvas-Data/Canvas-Data-2-Frequently-Asked-Questions/ta-p/541928  Also, details on which system is to be used is needed. For example, will this remain on AWS RedShift?  ... View more

Perhaps this can be set up to be configured by the account or subaccount? We see 95% of our courses running with a Monday to Sunday week. ... View more

@jwadec  -  Very helpful. So far I've recreated a few of our macros using the basic RPA features within Power Automate (see below). For example, this here uses a csv input of assignment urls where we want to search for a string of text (Employment Trends) within the description html and replace it with new text (for fun... 'Bee bop buh bee bop'). This can be used for broken links, video embeds, other strings of text, titles, headings, the entire page of HTML, etc. I've highlighted the two items I had questions for: looping and a find/ replace capability. These are both working without flaw. The one challenge I've observed is that it is sometimes difficult to select the correct object in the user interface. This is partly due to the button id's having variable alphanumerical id's. But I am finding that with persistence I can find the right combination of UI elements to select.  I will be planning next steps and that will include exploration of the provided connector, api, and creation of a flow request via form input. Again, many thanks for sharing! This is next level stuff. -------- Power Automate - find and replace ... View more

@floriana   We enabled the TII Draft Coach tool within our university Office 365 account which enables student access. Should that not be an option, an alternative approach for any instructor is to create a zero point assignment configured for TII which permits multiple submissions and does not add the content to the database. That way students can post their masterpieces and receive the similarity report as feedback ahead of posting the file to an assignment or text to a discussion. Happy New Year ~! ... View more

@DanBurgess @jwadec @matthew_buckett @chadscott  For several years we've been using Canvas Data to search for strings of text and then create a list of course urls that need an action (i.e., fix a broken link on a list of pages, add a page, edit page content, etc.) and then use that list as a csv input file along with an RPA (robot process automation) tool called iMacro. This has worked out tremendously for us as our support team has access to edit course content but does not have access to the Canvas API. However a few weeks ago the company that now owns iMacro (Progress) informed its user community that the tool is at end of life near the end of 2023. And so I am looking for a new solution for the RPA aspect and the Power Automate / Canvas API connector seems like a contender. A few questions: Does Power Automate have the capability to loop through a list of urls? i.e. using a csv list as an input file? We have 2k course templates and often find the need to update hundreds of pages, etc. at a time. Has anyone integrated JavaScript into a flow? For example, to edit a string of text on a page/ assignment/ etc. via replace? For example: https://www.enjoysharepoint.com/power-automate-replace/  How well does this work for you?   Thanks to all, ~ Jeff   ... View more

@dkpst5  -  be sure to note that within the New Analytics tool there is a Reports tab. Within is a course Activity Report that lists the number of times an item is viewed and the number of participations. When exported to csv the file can then be saved to Excel format and filtered, sorted, and aggregated. For example, a pivot table can be created to create a summary report that shows a count of discussion participations for each student.     ... View more

Thank you, @jon_mason for documenting the issue and presenting a solution. ... View more

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Yes, everyone doesn't set up their course ahead of term start. A work around is to create a course copy of the elements into a temporary sandbox course, unpublish the assignments (and perhaps also change the date), and then copy those into the new live course. That is a hop, skip and jump. ;o) ... View more