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jwillin · ‎11-08-2022

Hi Rolf, The Moderation settings in New Quizzes allows you to reopen a student’s most recent quiz attempt. You can adjust timer settings. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-moderate-a-student-s-quiz-attempt-in-New-Quizzes/ta-p/655 John

jwillin · ‎09-21-2022

Hi, I'm not a software developer but it seems like, given that the functionality already exists for pages, that it wouldn't be too hard to add a history function to the Syllabus page🤷🏽‍♂️. I suspect someone earlier in this thread has already suggested this but....., I encourage instructors, particularly those with heavily-styled syllabi to maintain their own syllabus history by copying and pasting their syllabus edits into an unpublished page. Since the page does have the history feature, each time you paste a new version into that page, you get an archive of the previous versions. Thank you, John Willingham

jwillin · ‎03-07-2022

Thank you @KristinL I am revising my response because while the other discussions about expanding the options for downloading comments and rubrics would probably be welcomed by students, our students are requesting something that already exists, it just isn't available to users with the student role. It seems like it would be pretty easy to make that existing 'Download Submission Comments' visible to the student role. John

jwillin · ‎03-04-2022

Hi, I was surprised to not find this among existing Ideas. I found some related items but nothing that addressed this directly. Maybe my search term choices weren't very good, Our students would like to be able to download the instructor comments that are entered in the Speed Grader's sidebar. The instructors have this ability. The students would find this useful as well. The ability to download the annotated document along with the side bar comments in a single document would be a useful option as well. Thank you, John Willingham

jwillin · ‎11-30-2021

Hi, The 'Set Word Limit' option suggests to me that the tool would enforce word limits and not let a student submit a question that contained more or fewer words than required. That does not appear to be what it does though. It just displays the min/max, it doesn't enforce or alert you if your answer is not within the range. Is that the way it's supposed to work? Are there plans for the tool to eventually enforce the limits or pop up an alert if your answer is outside the limits? It seems odd to me that there would be a dedicated setting option for info that could just as easily be included in the question stem. Thank you, John Willingham

jwillin · ‎09-13-2021

Hi, One of our instructors has used timed quizzes for this purpose but the only thing that quizzes offers over assignments is the timer. Every other aspect of the workflow in quizzes is less satisfactory for the instructor. In particular is the added time that it takes to work through the grading of the uploaded files because you have to download them and you also have to put in the question points and then update the quiz score as opposed to just putting in the score as you do in an assignment. Not a huge difference maybe, unless you've got a 120 students, then every click matters. We are working around the issue to some extent by using an essay question instead of a file upload question. We gave the students instructions on how to embed the file in the rich content editor and choose the 'expand preview automatically option' which eliminates the need for the instructor to download and open the file. So that will hopefully help a little bit but a timer on the regular assignments tool would be so much more satisfactory, Thank you, John Willingham Emory University

jwillin · ‎04-26-2021

Thanks, Kalli!

jwillin · ‎04-26-2021

Thank you, @James! I really appreciate it. I’ll give that a try. Very helpful!

jwillin · ‎04-25-2021

@James , Wow, James. As always, this is so helpful and clearly written. Thank you so much. I have a question about result sets that exceed 100 rows. How do I move to page 2 of a result set that exceeds 100 items? Thank you! John Willingham

jwillin · ‎03-18-2021

This would be very helpful. Similarly named items can be hard to pick out when you are scrolling left to right looking for a particular item.

jwillin · ‎12-02-2020

Hi Sarah and Scott, I would love to find the answer to this question as well. Are you aware of any progress on this or have you found another method of viewing the interaction data? Thank you, John Willingham

jwillin · ‎11-09-2020

I will check to see if a feature request exists for this and create one if it doesn't. Thank you, John

jwillin · ‎11-06-2020

In the New Quizzes tool I am not seeing a way to set a Fill-In-the-Blank question to be case-insensitive. I see that as an option if I use the 'Close Enough' option based on the Levenshtein Distance but it does not allow me to set the Levenshtein to zero and that's not what I want. Is case-insensitivity an option? Thank you, John Willingham

jwillin · ‎06-11-2020

We have a course in which it is very important that students not be able to see students in other sections of the course. All students are enrolled with the 'section only' access. As a precaution, I tried to figure out ways that teachers or students could inadvertently reveal themselves to students in other sections. I came up with one scenario in which they could, and wanted to know if anyone is aware of any others? If a teacher posts an announcement that is assigned to all sections and the option to allow students to reply is enabled, and a student replies, then that student's reply is visible to all students regardless of section. This would also apply to discussions. I advised the instructors to be sure that the 'reply' option is not enabled on 'all section' announcements and that they be intentional in their assigning of discussion boards. Are you aware of any other scenarios that could compromise section anonymity? Thank you, John Willingham

jwillin · ‎02-26-2020

There is a lot of content in the community about updates to the new Grade Posting Policy functionality so please forgive me if this has already been discussed. I would expect that it has been but I wasn't able to find the relevant thread. Anyway... The following text that appears when an instructor Hides grades in an assignment that is set to Automatically post is confusing. If you have already run up against this then you know that hiding the grades only hides existing grades. Any grades that are entered subsequently are immediately released to the student and they receive a notification that their submission has been graded. This bit of information needs to be made clear in the text below. Maybe add a line that says, "Hiding grades only hides previously recorded grades. If you wish to hide all grades for this assignment, change the Grade Posting Policy to manual." or something like that. Thank you, John Willingham

jwillin · ‎02-04-2020

Thank you, Jeff!

jwillin · ‎02-04-2020

Our instructors want to have a shared video repository that allows them to get the share link from a video that they did not upload. If there is a way to do this I have not been able to find it. It appears that you can only get the share links from videos that you uploaded or that were specifically shared with you. The need for this arises because we have pages that contain links to over 40 different audio and video files. Using the standard embed takes up too much real estate. Sharing every video with every instructor in the class is too cumbersome. Any suggestions? Thank you, John Willingham

jwillin · ‎11-08-2019

I am testing a group discussion assignment that asks students to post replies that include Studio videos. It appears that the comments feature does not display in any group item even if it is selected when embedding the video content. Do we know if this is on the list of things that Canvas is looking at adding to Studio? Thank you, John Willingham Emory University

jwillin · ‎10-21-2019

We've had requests for this from faculty as well. Thank you, John Willingham

jwillin · ‎05-08-2019

Hi All, It's too bad that the version history doesn't work anymore but I just thought I'd share that you can often find previous versions of the guides by checking The Wayback Machine which is part of the archive.org site. Here is a link to a version of one of the Canvas guides from 2017. How do I create a survey in my course? | Canvas Community The limitation is that the snapshots are kind of random so you might find the specific version you are seeking and you might not. Good Luck! John Willingham

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Let students download assignment grading comments Hi, I was surprised to not find this among existing Ideas. I found some related items but nothing that addressed this directly. Maybe my search term choices weren't very good, Our students would ...	03-04-2022	309	0
Word Count Limits - Minimum and Maximum Hi, The 'Set Word Limit' option suggests to me that the tool would enforce word limits and not let a student submit a question that contained more or fewer words than required. That does not appea...	11-30-2021	858	0
Case sensitivity in Fill-In-the-Blank questions in New Quizzes In the New Quizzes tool I am not seeing a way to set a Fill-In-the-Blank question to be case-insensitive. I see that as an option if I use the 'Close Enough' option based on the Levenshtei...	11-06-2020	1082	0
Ensuring section anonymity We have a course in which it is very important that students not be able to see students in other sections of the course. All students are enrolled with the 'section only' access. As a precaution, I ...	06-11-2020	847	2
"Hide Grades" - Text needs to be clearer There is a lot of content in the community about updates to the new Grade Posting Policy functionality so please forgive me if this has already been discussed. I would expect that it has been but I w...	02-26-2020	374	0
Can I get a link to a video uploaded to a course by another instructor? Our instructors want to have a shared video repository that allows them to get the share link from a video that they did not upload. If there is a way to do this I have not been able to find it.&nbsp...	02-04-2020	713	0
Studio comments feature not available in groups I am testing a group discussion assignment that asks students to post replies that include Studio videos. It appears that the comments feature does not display in any group item even if it is select...	11-08-2019	625	1
Adding DocViewer grading to essay questions in quizzes? I am wondering if there has ever been a feature request to add the DocViewer grading functionality to the grading of essay questions in quizzes? It seems like it would have been suggested before but ...	11-02-2018	1140	1

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