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orwinr · ‎01-01-2020

Hi @sandra_minton , The box with the "i" to the left is just the recent messages for the activity stream. This box show any recent activity in the group, like discussion posts or announcements. So no, this is not where students communicate and/or submit lesson ideas. I think we should back up a bit and have you describe what you want students to do in the group? What assignment should they be working on? Once we know what you are trying to accomplish we can help you decide how best to use the group functionality. Can you provide more details? Best, Randy

orwinr · ‎12-30-2019

Hi @sandra_minton and welcome to the Canvas Community! A group in Canvas is like a mini Canvas course for the students in the group. This is a work space that the students can use to collaborate. To see what a group looks like to students go to the group set and then click on the vertical dot menu at the right side of the group name. Click the menu and then select the "Visit Group Homepage" option. You will see in the group a menu like below: Home Announcements Pages People Discussions Files Conferences Collaborations Students can use the announcements menu to send announcements to everybody in the group. They can see the members in the People page. They can setup their own discussion boards, share files, use the Conferences feature to have live video meetings and use the Collaborations link to share Google and Microsoft docs to the rest of the group. So you can it is a full collaboration space. Now, know that many students will setup their own work groups using Google Drive or other things and figure out how to do things on their own. Please let us know if you have any other questions about groups. Best, Randy

orwinr · ‎12-30-2019

Hi @mdimeo and welcome to the Canvas Community! The student list is always found by clicking on the "People" link in the left navigation bar. If you are a teacher in the course the "People" link will always be listed in the left nav bar. If you are a student and you don't see the "People" link your teacher/instructor has hidden it and you won't be able to see the list at all. I hope this helps. Please let us know if this doesn't answer your question and we will happily provide you with further assistance. Best, Randy

orwinr · ‎12-30-2019

Hi @rao_3 , You should be able to upload the .html file into the files area and then create a link to that file and it should render inside the viewing area of the Canvas interface. If it isn't working, check the link again to make sure it is accurate. You can also go to the files area and click on the html file and it should render in preview mode. If it doesn't render your admin folks may block this from happening. The reality is, it works fine for me so check that the link is correct as a starter. If you still have problems just let us know and we will give you more help. Best, Randy

orwinr · ‎12-30-2019

Hi @sbayer and welcome to the Canvas Community! The easiest way is to just upload a file with the same exact name and Canvas will ask if you want to replace the file. Say yes and the new syllabus will replace the old. The second option is find the old syllabus, click on the vertical dot menu at the end of the file description and delete and then upload the new one. Then, check the links that reference the new file are correct and if not fix them so they are correct. Hope this helps 🙂 Best, Randy

orwinr · ‎12-29-2019

Hi @phalen2315 and welcome to the Canvas Community! I don't know of any way to just convert a page to an assignment but I would suggest you open the page you want to use as an assignment in one browser window and open another window with the create new assignment option. Now you can just copy and past from the page into the assignment description. Set the assignment options and save and you should be good to go. Please let me know if you have any other concerns about this question. Best, Randy

orwinr · ‎12-29-2019

Hi @sammelr and welcome to the Canvas Community! The Canvas Guides are your best friend. The have almost anything you need to know about using Canvas. I took the liberty of searching them for you and this is the process you need to use to copy a quiz from a different course into the current course. Please let me know if you have any other questions about the import process. How do I select specific content as part of a course import? Best, Randy

orwinr · ‎12-29-2019

Hi @gfm10655 and welcome to the Canvas Community! The Canvas guides are always going to be your first choice when learning how to do something in Canvas. In this instance, please find below links to both the student and teacher guides pages on setting up a pic for your profile. How do I add a profile picture in my user account as an instructor? https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10599-4212710334 I hope this helps! Best, Randy

orwinr · ‎12-29-2019

Hi @leslie_irvine , We use VoiceThread here at our institution and you are correct. Once you setup a VT assignment using the LTI tool, it leaves Canvas and everything is accomplished in VT itself. So, in this situation, depending on how you have setup your VT assignment, you can add your rubric criteria to the assignment description or if they are to view and/or participate in a thread, you could add this info to the first slide in the deck. I hope this helps. Best, Randy

orwinr · ‎12-29-2019

Hi @leslie_irvine , and welcome to the Canvas community. Your problem lies in where you add rubrics to an assignment. Rubrics are not added during assignment creation, they are added after you save them. Save the assignment, go back to review it and the add rubric option appears at the bottom of the description. Take a look at the attached image. Hope this helps.

orwinr · ‎11-12-2019

@stiber ‌, I have been asking for search at UW for ages. We finally broke down here at the iSchool and negotiated an agreement with Atomic Jolt and have been using their search tool for a couple of years now. Our users love it and we will continue to purchase it for the foreseeable future. Now, we are a very small school at UW so our costs are not very large.

orwinr · ‎05-15-2019

Hi @rislis , We have been using Atomic Search for almost the last year and really like it. As a company they have been quite responsive to our needs and our faculty and students love being able to search individual courses as well as across all of their enrollments at the same time.

orwinr · ‎04-07-2019

Hi @agrant4 , I have worked with lots of Canvas instructors in using weighted assignment groups. Why not just assign the same number of points to each assignment in the group? You could assign 10, 50 or 100, it doesn't matter as long as each assignment has the same number of points. Just a thought. Another idea, depending on how many assignments you have, is put each assignment in an assignment group. I worked with an instructor that only had 5 assignments in the course and they just put each assignment in its own assignment group, allowing for vastly different point totals per assignment but each assignment equating to the same percentage of the final grade. Just some thoughts.

orwinr · ‎02-04-2019

I spent three weeks in your neck of the woods in November, @Bobby2 ‌, staying with a friend in Hobart who is also heavily involved in the Tasmanian Canvas roll out. You might know her, @janine_bowes ‌. I was impressed with what Janine told us while we were there. We had a lovely time in Tassie, but didn't quite make it to Wineglass Bay. We spent a week on Cradle Mountain at a wildlife tourism conference and nearly a week on the Tasman Peninsula hiking a bunch of the trails. We really liked the hikes to Cape Raoul, Shipstearn Bluff and Tunnel Bay. Beautiful place that we will be returning to for a more serious backpacking trip.

orwinr · ‎11-02-2018

Hi cknoph, We found it to be a bit buggy and it didn't do what we wanted it to do. I can't be more specific than that as I don't remember all the details. Sorry.

orwinr · ‎10-22-2018

I am totally with you, @garrett_william . Search functionality should have been baked in from the beginning. With that said, we felt that it was important enough to pay the extra for it. The concern now is does Instructure add search and in the process hammer an existing partner.

orwinr · ‎10-12-2018

laurakgibbs, we did some user research regarding search finding 91% of faculty and 96% of students wanted site-wide search in Canvas. I also asked faculty if they thought their students would want search, and eerily, 95% of faculty said students would want search. Based on these numbers, we made getting search a priority for the current academic year. We ran some reports at the beginning of the quarter and we will run another report at the end of the quarter to see how much the tool is being used. During the summer quarter, which has very few course, we ended up with about 2000 search requests. If it looks like it isn't being used, we will remind users that is available and if at the end of the year it isn't getting the type of use we anticipated, we will not fund it for another year. It will be interesting to see if the the actual use of the tool supports the survey results we can previously.

orwinr · ‎10-12-2018

Hi @garrett_william , We have been using the LTI from Atomic Jolt for the last few months and find it really solid. At the top of every page in Canvas is a search box that by default searches all course content, except content in discussions. Once your results come back you can filter by type, so pages, pdf files, assignments etc. Once the results come back you also have the option of ticking a box that will then search all courses that you are enrolled in. The tool also only returns results based on the current role that you have in the course. If Instructure decides to build in search across the platform, the Atomic Jolt product would be a good model to follow.

orwinr · ‎08-27-2018

Hi @Bobby2 , Since I learned about transactional distance back in 2009, I consistently use it when designing activities both for courses and for all of the virtual events that we run. It just made so much sense to me 🙂

orwinr · ‎08-27-2018

Hi carroll-ccsd. I am happy to attempt any questions that you may have. Send them my way and I will give it a go.

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