@Renee_Carney ‌ Just saw this — it's how I've been doing it since theming started! ... View more

Coming late to this conversation, but broadly (aggravatedly) in support of anything that makes the rubric management process better, here's the feature request that I just wrote related to this, that got archived because this exists: So, right now, when you go to import a rubric, you get a scrambled list of all the other courses (listed by course code, btw) you've ever taught that have rubrics associated with them: When I raised this issue to support, they said "The find a rubric page within Canvas is not designed with a discernible sorting design. The find a rubric page was designed to grab all rubrics tied to enrollments for a teacher in all of their courses and load them as they are located. This is why you will be seeing the rubrics list of courses in this order." I know that others have faced this problem in the past: Sorting the Find a Rubric dialog‌ And I've written a hack that's running on our Canvas instance: https://github.com/smtech/canvashack-plugin-sort-rubric-import-contexts (it has to do some jQuery gyrations to get itself bound and unbound appropriately). tl;dr: The course list in the "Find a Rubric" dialog should be sorted in some reasonable manner.  I suggest employing a sort similar to that discussed around terms, here: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/1248-more-intuitive-term-sortingpresentation?sr=search&searchId=e00be673-941c-4ee9-8461-de7598b35013&searchIndex=0" style="color: #2989c5; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px 0px 0px 19px;‌ — active first, alphabetically, probably with the active course on top, followed by older courses ordered by term or course date. ... View more

And academic advisors! ... View more

It's worth noting that this is an issue not just for large courses, but also for long courses. For example, I'm at a K-12 school with courses of 16 or fewer students. But those courses run for the whole year and have fairly regular graded assessments. By this point in the year (late April, early May), we also can no longer see the grading history in courses that have simply had too many graded assignments, because — multiplicatively — we have also exceeded a history of 2000 changes. ... View more

Yup. Exactly the same problem. I haven't dug deeply into it, but I'm guessing there's some "Commons ID" or something tagged on to the imported assignment that causes Canvas to keep importing over the first import again and again. ... View more

So nlatimer​, yeah… importing from Commons to create duplicates is not infallible. You won't actually overwrite the original that you published to the Commons, but if you try to import a ​third​ copy into the course, it will just keep overwriting the ​second​ copy (your ​first import). ... View more

Rumor has it that students should be getting a Speed Grader-like view. Totally unclear on the timeline though… It's been "coming soon" for over a year. ... View more

One tool we often use for testing is a couple of "mock" student accounts that have real(ish) profile information, external tool profiles, etc. -- as well as enrollments in other classes. It would be great to have a pool of test users to draw from in this context. ... View more

A very similar feature request is currently active: ​, if people want to include their feedback (and votes) there. ... View more

Welp, the good news is that the bugs in the submissions API are, at least, predictable enough that there is an LTI out there that folks can install to let students browse their submissions. Here 'tis.​ Currently completely undocumented (whee!), but I'm hoping to fix that in the next day or two. If others stumble across this post and want to get it set up for themselves, feel free to drop me a line for assistance. ... View more

 @Renee_Carney ​, what's the latest on this? It's now been six months since the last update and a over a year since this was archived I slapped together a quick LTI last night to try to accomplish this on my own… and ran into some Very Weird Things in the submissions API, with wrong previews being returned for different submission versions (case 01584819, just submitted). So… no news from Canvas and we can't do this ourselves without some bug fixes from Canvas! ... View more

Amen, Charles! While I can certainly see pedagogic benefit to pushing students to, y'know, read the directions and follow them -- and, broadly speaking, I support it wholeheartedly… this particular feature is something that would really be a benefit to just "getting business done" as that important pedagogic philosophy is, shall we say, still being imprinted on learners. ... View more

Huh. I just tried this again on my test instance. I set up an LTI in my root account (I think that's key -- can't be a sub-account, I'm guessing: they probably don't poll every account in which a user is active for global_navigation). This is exactly the XML I posted above (broken link to an icon and all). It seems to work whether or not you give it a key and secret (makes sense, since there's nothing on the tool provider end checking them): And then, bingo bango, it seems to work (well, the icon is, of course, broken): ... View more

jyan​, hmm. I know  @karl ​ notes that they've found it a little… kludgy. I found it pretty straight-forward. I've got some free time tomorrow. I'll see if I can slap together a screencast of exactly what I'm seeing. ... View more

 @karl ​, another layer of conversation that I hope is happening within Canvas is about what is and is not internally an appropriate candidate for the global navigation placement. I've found that adding Commons, beta testing Arc and having our own hacked Resources menu​… creates too much stuff in global navigation, especially on laptop screens. I diverted the Arc global navigation placement to user navigation, where I think it fits more logically (although I think there's an even better option: ​), but it's not clear to me that adding things to global navigation that aren't truly global navigation is a good idea. (SSO sign in does seem global to me, like our resources menu -- and I'll probably pursue my notes above eventually to implement something to keep our javascript menu from "bouncing" in.) ... View more

For those who also stumble upon this, a few additional tidbits that I've gleaned in the last few hours: It looks like global_navigation is a placement only available to LTIs installed in the root account. You can only see global_navigation placements on your live instance. (This makes testing things a little… hair-raising.) global_navigation placements can also be created via the external_tools API (the parameters would be things like global_navigation[text] and global_navigation[url], etc.) The potential properties of global_navigation that I have seen so far are url, visibility, display_type (I've only seen full_width as a parameter), icon_url (to an SVG file), icon_svg_path_64 (if your icon is simple enough to be described with a single path), canvas_icon_class (doesn't seem to do anything), text (the caption on the navigation bar), label (again, seems to have no impact), selection_width, selection_height, enabled Seems like you can get the global_navigation placement with just that option (see below).  @bgibson , The latest beta release notes suggest that in course_navigation, you can now set the target for the launch -- perhaps this will also be coming to global_navigation as well? Here's a minimal configuration XML file that works for me: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <cartridge_basiclti_link xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticc_v1p0" xmlns:blti="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsbasiclti_v1p0" xmlns:lticm="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticm_v1p0" xmlns:lticp="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticp_v1p0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticc_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imslticc_v1p0.xsd     http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsbasiclti_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imsbasiclti_v1p0.xsd     http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticm_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imslticm_v1p0.xsd     http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticp_v1p0 http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/lti/ltiv1p0/imslticp_v1p0.xsd"> <blti:title>Global Nav Test</blti:title>   <blti:description>Testing to see if I can get a global_navigation placement to appear</blti:description>   <blti:launch_url>https://skunkworks.stmarksschool.org</blti:launch_url> <blti:extensions platform="canvas.instructure.com">   <lticm:property name="tool_id">global-nav-test</lticm:property>   <lticm:property name="privacy_level">anonymous</lticm:property>   <lticm:property name="domain">https://skunkworks.stmarksschool.org</lticm:property>   <lticm:options name="global_navigation">   <lticm:property name="visibility">admins</lticm:property>   <lticm:property name="icon_url">https://skunkworks.stmarksschool.org/resources.svg</lticm:property>   </lticm:options> </blti:extensions> <cartridge_bundle identifierref="BLTI001_Bundle"/> <cartridge_icon identifierref="BLTI001_Icon"/> </cartridge_basiclti_link> ... View more

Folks -- What follows is a quick run-down of what I went through in my slideshow this morning. First, the tools we looked at: smtech/canvas-management​ This is my "personalized" administrative dashboard for Canvas. It's where I wrap scripts in enough interface and directions that I can remember what they do and how to use them. smtech/student-feedback-review​ Give students a narrative view of all of their feedback (well, all of the messages about the assignment -- not the CrocoDoc comments) to promote their own metacognition/sense of self-efficacy. smtech/advisor-dashboard​ Advisors can get a sense of how their advisees are doing in their courses, check the Faculty Journal, log in to observe them. smtech/grading-analytics​ Provide some analytics on teachers' use of Canvas (to measure how we're doing on meeting expectations, flag people in need of support -- or doing interesting and exciting things). I've given several presentations on just this tool in the past: InstructureCon 2014: Using the API for Faculty Feedback​ InstructureCon 2015: Feedback for Faculty​ smtech/canvas-ics-sync​ Sync ICS and webcal feeds into Canvas course calendars. This is currently dependent on a fork of phpicalendar​ for parsing, which is no longer in development. I'm actively working on bringing it and (its ICS parser) up to date for the coming school year. smtech/canvashack​ This is a manager for a (small) ecosystem of JavaScript-ish snippets that modify the Canvas UI. CanvasHack use the Theme Editor's global JavaScript to load a customized JavaScript and CSS file per-user, URL, role within Canvas. Currently the "top" plugins that I'm using are: smtech/canvashack-plugin-global-navigation​ — add additional items to the global navigation menu. smtech/canvashack-plugin-templates​ — allow teachers to define per-course templates for assignments (and pages, discussions, etc.) smtech/canvashack-plugin-faculty-journal — tweak the UI so that faculty can browse the Faculty Journal by course (rather than individual). All of the plugins are on Packagist​. Additionally, I had a list of resources at the end: The tools that I've built to facilitate development (in a LAMP environment): smtech/reflexive-canvas-lti​ — the base for building an LTI tool. Just released this morning. Still needs a little documentation, improved examples, etc. I will be converting all the LTIs list above to use it in the coming weeks. smtech/oauth2-canvaslms — a package to easily use OAuth 2.0 for users to interactively authenticate to their Canvas instance to provide an API token for the tool to use. smtech/canvaspest​ — an object-oriented package to interact with the Canvas APIs (never worry about pagination again!) My tools rely on Stephen Vickers' LTI_Tool_Provider package (which should be joining the Composer/Packagist ecosystem in the near future) as he transitions it from LTI 1.0 to LTI 2.0. Tsugi.org​ looks like an interesting PHP framework for LTIs that is aimed at LTI 2.0 right now -- LMS-agnostic. Some useful resources for PHP development in general: PHPtheRightWay.com​ — if you're new (or old and have bad habits like me), this is a great primer on modern PHP development. GetComposer.org​ — Composer is the PHP package dependency manager (all those composer.json files) Packagist.org​ — the central directory of PHP packages (which Composer references) As always, if you use my stuff, please feel free to reach out (SethBattis@stmarksschool.org) with questions/ideas -- and to submit issues when something is broken! ... View more

Well, if your keyword choice was bad, so was mine… I wrote it up because I couldn't find anything else! (Truth in advertising: I can get what I want now… but I want to get it more easily and transparently!) Thanks! ... View more