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stevenwilliams · ‎09-03-2020

As outlined in the Canvas Guides (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-remove-an-enrollment-from-a-course/ta-p/742), "If an enrollment is created via SIS, only admins can remove an enrollment from the course." This can create confusion for instructors in courses with both manual and SIS-created enrollments, where instructors have different abilities to manage a student's enrollment based on how it was created. Because Canvas maintains an internal logic of whether an enrollment was created manually or via SIS import, this could also be represented to users in the People tool (using an icon or similar flag), to help instructors understand why particular enrollments can be managed in different ways.

stevenwilliams · ‎05-08-2020

This behavior is also discussed in the comments of another Feature Idea: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/14940-new-quizzes-allow-course-designers-to-edit-quizzes

stevenwilliams · ‎05-08-2020

When a user is added to a Canvas course as a "Designer", they appear in the People section as a "Course Designer". This behavior is unique to the Designer role, and creates confusion when it appears that someone has a custom role in a particular Canvas course, rather than a Canvas-standard role. "Designer" should function like any other role in Canvas, and display the same name in the People section as it does when adding users or managing roles/permissions.

stevenwilliams · ‎10-22-2019

Katrina, thanks for the update and for Instructure's responsiveness to customer concerns about the recent changes to the New Analytics tools. One additional piece of feedback I wanted to provide is regarding your second point, that "When the feature option is enabled, the New Analytics course navigation link will be visible by default. If the feature option is hidden, the navigation link will also be hidden." Our institution would strongly prefer that the course navigation link be hidden by default. This is especially true if enabling the feature option replaces the legacy Course Analytics button with the link to the New Analytics tool -- a nav menu link becomes duplicative, and may not be needed at all.

stevenwilliams · ‎06-03-2019

This is definitely needed functionality for instructors who use extra credit.

stevenwilliams · ‎03-27-2019

@jsavage2 ‌, here's the core of my concern: Instructure is requiring third-party developers to explicitly provide "scope enforcement for newly issued inherited developer keys", "justifications for why those scopes are needed", and "explanations of how developer keys and tokens are securely stored" Unlike institutionally-issued developer keys, which allow Canvas admins to view and modify their scope, institutions currently have no way to view the scope of any Instructure-issued developer key. Deactivated user‌ acknowledges the value of this information by stating that "exposing the scopes for Inherited developer keys to Canvas Account Admins" is somewhere on the roadmap. Instructure explicitly "expects Canvas Account Admins to determine their own vetting policies and apply them when enabling an inherited developer key". If my institution's vetting policies require us to understand and document the scope of new developer keys we enable, and Instructure is already capturing the scope of inherited developer keys that they themselves issue, then why is Instructure not providing any method for institutions to view this information?

stevenwilliams · ‎03-27-2019

Hi Deactivated user‌ -- thanks for this comprehensive post about the history and current state of inherited developer keys in Canvas. You state that "exposing the scopes for Inherited developer keys to Canvas Account Admins" is under consideration. However, without these scopes being exposed to Admins, it's unclear how institutions are expected to "determine their own vetting policies and apply them when enabling an inherited developer key" when there is no transparency or information available around the scope of Instructure-issued inherited developer keys. Exposing the scope around the Instructure-issued inherited developer keys seems like a necessity for institutions to conduct this local review. More generally, I understand that Instructure is a large company, supporting customers around the world with a wide range of regional and institutional requirements around privacy/security, and that individual institutions may reach different conclusions about the same integration. However, the current bar for Instructure issuing an inherited developer key feels far too low. At minimum, my institution would expect Instructure to at least capture information about vendor privacy/security policies and make this available to us. A HECVAT or similar accessibility self-assessment would also be good information to capture from vendors. I can understand Instructure's reluctance to take responsibility for third-party tools. However, the current policies and practices around inherited developer keys shift far too much burden to institutions trying to use these integrations, without providing us with the basic information we need to conduct the local review of these tools that Instructure specifically asks us to complete.

stevenwilliams · ‎03-20-2019

UC Berkeley currently uses the "deleted" enrollment status when students drop a course, as this is the only option that fully revokes access to course materials and removes students from the roster. However, in the fall we learned that when students are re-enrolled in a course where their enrollment is "deleted", not all of their previous course information is restored (particularly group memberships and differentiated assignments assigned to them as individuals). If we were able to use "inactive", we would avoid these particular issues. However, given the size of our university, including "inactive" students in the People roster alongside currently enrolled students would generate far too much clutter and unnecessary information for instructors. We continue to need a way to use the "inactive" status for dropped enrollments without displaying these alongside active students.

stevenwilliams · ‎12-13-2018

Kona, thanks for all your work putting this together! I recently posted a feature idea for a small but significant piece of functionality currently missing from the New Gradebook: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/13104-new-gradebook-numeric-equivalent-should-display-alongside-letter-grades" modifiedtitle="true" title="New Gradebook: Numeric Equivalent Should Display Alongside Letter Grades. Because Canvas treats the numeric scores as the "real" grades, and only includes the numeric equivalents for letter grades in API/CSV exports, it is important to continue representing these to instructors in the Gradebook UI to help them better understand how Canvas calculates overall student grades.

stevenwilliams · ‎09-28-2018

Hi Erin -- thanks for this update. As additional enhancements and features are added to Analytics 2.0, will these also be released to beta first?

stevenwilliams · ‎06-15-2018

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas When a user changes a Page in a Canvas site and the "Notify users that this content has changed" option has been checked, users who are notified receive a notification reading "A page has been updated on the wiki for (course name) that may make your life easier". This notification is misleading to users for a couple reasons: 1. Although the Pages tool is very wiki-like in nature, the tool is not labeled this way within Canvas, and users do not immediately understand the term "wiki" in the context of this notification 2. The "may make your life easier" phrase is frequently not relevant or appropriate for changes to Canvas Pages. An improved notification could read: "A page has been updated in (course name)". Comments from Instructure For more information, please read through the https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-14928 .

stevenwilliams · ‎02-02-2018

Hi Deactivated user‌, thanks for sharing this update and continuing to engage in the discussion here. When Instructure is ready to release these changes, we would request that customers be given longer than the usual two-week cycle between a beta and production release. We have courses which use Javascript for a wide range of purposes, and two weeks might not be enough time for all users to review and update templates and other course elements.

stevenwilliams · ‎01-08-2018

A few times per year, we are contacted by instructors who did the following: Successfully import content from "old" to "new" site Revise content in "new" site Repeat the import content process -- either all content or some content Instructors expect that this will create a duplicate in their new site (seeing their revised content alongside the old imported version), but instead this workflow can result in the revised "new" content being replaced with the "old" content. It looks like this has come up in the Community before (https://community.canvaslms.com/thread/3841 ), with some difficulty reproducing the unexpected behavior -- but an instructor commenting in October 2017 that she lost a bit of work in a new course after setting it up and then importing old content.

stevenwilliams · ‎01-08-2018

When importing content from previous courses, sometimes instructors choose "all content" expecting that this will add their old content to the new site. Instead, it overwrites the existing site's content with the materials from the old site in some circumstances. Importing course content should always be a non-destructive process .

stevenwilliams · ‎12-05-2017

Thanks for these resources, Kelley. However, the existing Canvas features do not fully address the needs of instructors of large courses, who may have hundreds of messages related to any particular class (at my institution, we have classes with up to 1500 students). This is especially true when an instructor recalls the content of a conversation, but not the name of the student who they had the conversation with.

stevenwilliams · ‎12-05-2017

Finding a specific message in the Canvas Inbox is a difficult task due to the lack of a search feature. This is compounded for instructors of large courses, who may have thousands of students over the course of just a single academic year. This is not a new request, but all previous feature requests around this topic have been archived: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/8587 https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/5105 https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/1359 https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/2828 https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/6106 Because this issue has such a disproportionate impact on instructors of large courses -- who have a large number of inbox messages -- there may be some alignment between this ongoing need and the Instructure Priority: Teaching & Learning at Scale initiative.

stevenwilliams · ‎11-30-2017

This is an important feature, and well aligned with the current Canvas Anonymous & Moderated Marking Priority anonymous&moderated‌ #a&mmarking‌

stevenwilliams · ‎10-17-2017

Thanks to the Canvas team for this huge improvement to the Grading History tool! Large courses with multiple graders tend to have the most need for this kind of data, and we're excited to make it available to our instructors.

stevenwilliams · ‎09-08-2017

We have received this request from multiple instructors, and hope to see it included in the big changes coming to the Gradebook in 2018 -- Deactivated user‌, can you or one of your product colleagues update the community on whether this popular request will be included?

stevenwilliams · ‎09-06-2017

The Canvas user experience would be improved by offering more consistency about hiding Inactive enrollments in both Grades and People.

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[People] Differentiate between SIS Import and Manual enrollments in People As outlined in the Canvas Guides (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-remove-an-enrollment-from-a-course/ta-p/742), "If an enrollment is created via SIS, only admins can remo...	09-03-2020	1519	0
"Designer" role should appear with a standard name in People When a user is added to a Canvas course as a "Designer", they appear in the People section as a "Course Designer". This behavior is unique to the Designer role, and creates confusion when it appears ...	05-08-2020	867	2
Remove "wiki" and "may make your life easier" from Page change notification This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas When a user changes a Page in a Canvas site and the "Notify users that this content has changed" option has been checked, users who are ...	06-15-2018	1393	20
Import Course Content should always be non-destructive When importing content from previous courses, sometimes instructors choose "all content" expecting that this will add their old content to the new site. Instead, it overwrites the existing site's con...	01-08-2018	7140	25
[Inbox] Add search feature for Inbox/Conversations Finding a specific message in the Canvas Inbox is a difficult task due to the lack of a search feature. This is compounded for instructors of large courses, who may have thousands of students over th...	12-05-2017	4184	25
Add course-level & account-level permissions for LTI installation This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Idea open for vote Wed. August 3, 2016 - Wed. November 2...	07-22-2016	4706	25
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