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Hi all. I had this same problem and found another workaround that doesn't involve keeping duplicate assignments.  In your course, go to Settings > Import Content > Copy a Canvas course Look up your very same course and "Select specific content" When the select content button appears, there is a "Rubrics" category. Find the rubrics you want,  check the associated boxes, and Import. When the process is done the duplicate rubrics will appear tin the "Rubrics" area of your course with names like "Original Rubric (1)" But importantly, they will behave like rubrics added from the Rubrics section, not like Rubrics created in an assignment.  Delete the original rubrics from the assignments. Rename the duplicate rubrics to remove the (1) Add the rubrics back to the assignments whenever you're ready for students to see them.  ... View more

Thanks for this! I'll see if my account admins will make me a custom class. ... View more

This latest version fixes the problems I was having! If you've tried this before and weren't able to get it to work, I encourage you to try it again! Thanks very much to  @stelpstra ​! ... View more

 @stelpstra ​, this seems like a marvelous, even miraculous solution to my own challenges in tracking student progress. However, I can't seem to get it to work. When I run the macro, it seems to successfully retrieve the course title, Module names, and Module item names... but then I get a endless series of dialog boxes saying, "An error occurred: Unauthorized." and then "Bad request". I have to force-quit Excel entirely to make it stop. Strangely, there is one course for which it works without error - an old personal 'sandbox' course I set up to experiment with. All other courses give the error I described above. My account has domain-name-wide access, and I'm listed as a Designer on the specific course I'm testing. I generated a new token specifically for this task. I'm using Excel 2011 for Mac in El Capitan (OSX 10.11.3) Have you or any other user of this Macro experienced this problem? Any idea what might be causing it? Is there a specific role I need within the course, or are there any settings in the course itself that might be blocking access? ... View more

The original request -- which appears to have been resolved -- was about appearance. Before the fix, a particular answer was shown as being correct when composing a survey. What has not been fixed is the data side of things: When you export survey results, the spreadsheet still indicates which answer was "correct" and how many points a student got for it. This carries over to the survey statistics page, which also show how many students got an answer "correct" when there is no correct answer. This is frustrating for instructors who want to use the quiz/survey function to take a survey of their students in one week, and then share the results with them the following week. They might just be able to take a screenshot of the survey stats for that question, but all the graphs and other text results would be confusing for a student to view ("what do you mean, correct?"). See attached screen shot. In my thinking, the intent of this bug fix request hasn't actually been fulfilled. ... View more

stefaniesanders​, yes, for whatever reason, the Rich Content Editor View doesn't load or apply CSS either, which makes it behave similarly to the mobile app. I do most of my editing either in HTML view, or in an external editor like Dreamweaver, and then paste back into Canvas. Canvas is (fortunately) fairly smart about auto-modifying URLs during rollovers. But I also know a little trick that helps, too. You might notice that many of your individual page URLs look something like this (not a real URL): https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/12345/pages/introduction-to-this-course If you have tried to link to a page like this by copying and pasting the URL, you know that your link will break if you change the name of that page. You might also notice that even if that page is in a module, you might not see the "Next" and "Previous" buttons at the bottom of the page, because you linked directly to the standalone page, not the page as a module item. However, if you're using Modules, you can harvest a link to that page if you (1) go to your Modules page (2) find the page you want to link to, and then (3) left-click on the link to that page and choose "copy link location" or whatever equivalent your browser uses. If you do that, you get something that looks like this: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/12345/modules/items/105458 This is a link to that same page, as it is situated within the module. This also works for quizzes, assignments, etc.... anything that can be an item in a module. This link will not change even if you change the page title or even if you move it around within the module (though it will break if you move the page to a different module). It also helps Canvas convert the page during a rollover. If you paste that link into Canvas HTML viewer, you'll see that after you save the page, Canvas will automatically truncate the link to "/courses/12345/modules/items/105458" ...storing it relative to your Canvas instance's domain. When you copy a course over, Canvas audits and adjusts these URLs for the new course. So when you import this page to a new course, it may be converted to something like "/courses/54321/modules/items/20986​" ... but the page it links to will be the correct page in your new course! Two big caveats to this process: 1) This mass conversion of pages and links only works if you do a single import of everything that cross-links into the new course, all at once. If you import the linking-out page today and the linked-to page tomorrow, that link won't work anymore in the new course. 2) If you use any LTI tools or plugins, they don't necessarily roll over. In fact, I had a problem with one LTI tool linking back to the old course, and I didn't realize it until students tried to follow it and got an error message. Hope this is helpful! ... View more

Sure! In several of my courses, I put a set of navigation buttons at the top of each page to help navigate a module. For a module with many pages, it's a big improvement over just "Next" and "Previous" or going back to the module page each time. In this example, the first button represents the current page. The button is disabled and larger than the others to distinguish it. But the div at the beginning is what works the magic: The "display: none;" style hides the button set by default, but "visible-desktop" and "visible-tablet" override that style and show the button set on larger screens. If you plug this in to a canvas page, you can actuall reduce the width of your browser window by hand, and watch the buttons disappear when the window gets very small. <div class="visible-desktop visible-tablet" style="text-align: center; display: none;"> <a class="btn disabled btn-primary" style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width: 84px; height:36px; text-align: center; line-height: 150%;word-wrap:break-word; white-space:normal;" title="Introductory Video" href="#"><i class="icon-filmstrip"></i> Intro Video</a> <a class="btn btn-small btn-primary" style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width: 84px; height:36px; text-align: center; line-height: 150%;word-wrap:break-word; white-space:normal;" title="Reading List" href="#"><i class="icon-document"></i> Reading List</a> <a class="btn btn-small btn-primary" style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width: 84px; height:36px; text-align: center; line-height: 150%;word-wrap:break-word; white-space:normal;" title="Your First Quiz" href="#"><i class="icon-quiz"></i> Short Quiz </a> <a class="btn btn-small btn-primary" style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width: 84px; height:36px; text-align: center; line-height: 150%;word-wrap:break-word; white-space:normal;" title="Module Checklist" href="#"><i class="icon-check"></i> Checklist</a> </div> ... View more

Incidaentally, I did actually put in a request to have the mobile app at least load the properties of the above-mentioned classes, even if the app still wouldn't load any of the other CSS. My rationale: We should at least have the easy ability to hide elements that we've designed to look pretty on the desktop, but which look ugly and confusing on mobile where the CSS doesn't work. They even put it up for voting from August-October... but it only got three votes. I guess my grassroots organizing skills need more work than my html skills.  😕 ... View more

Theoretically yes, but in actuality, no. The classes hidden-desktop, hidden-tablet, hidden-phone, visible-desktop, visible-tablet, and visible-phone are all defined in the Canvas CSS. Here's a table of what those classes do. Note that the CSS doesn't actually know what kind of device you're really using -- the settings are based on the width in pixels of the browser window you're using. Unfortunately, because the mobile app doesn't load that CSS (or any CSS), you can't just define an element to be "hidden-phone" to hide it on a phone, because (if you're using the app and not a mobile browser), the app won't load that CSS in order to hide the element. Instead, you have to be tricky about it: Hide it by default with "display:none", which is an actual inline style, not an invocation of Canvas CSS... then override that style on your desktop with the "visible-desktop" class, because your desktop browser does load that CSS. ... View more

Caveat: The method I use above does not work on the Canvas Mobile app, because the app does not load CSS. On the app, the hidden text will stay hidden. If you want mobile users to see it, you'll need to create duplicate text that is hidden on the desktop browser, but which loads on mobile. To do this, reproduce the text as you'd like it to display on mobile, and then wrap that text in: <div class="hidden-desktop">[Your content.]</div> ... View more

Nick, I think this html might do what you want. In addition to the toggler class, I add a button class (and take away the toggler triangle icon.) I also added the "aria-expanded="false"" to the toggler which tells the toggler that its default state is closed, and "display:none" to (initially) hide the content. I used this combo for some lengthy exam instructions on a quiz. The exam was 50 questions long, so I did one per page. I wanted the exam instructions to be available on every page, but didn't want students to need to scroll past them every time they clicked to a new page. So I placed them in the closed toggler, like this. <h4><span class="element_toggler btn btn-primary" role="button" aria-controls="instructions"     aria-label="Toggler toggle list visibility" aria-expanded="false"> Click here for additional information.</span></h4>   <ul id="instructions" style="list-style: none; display: none;">     <li>       <h4><strong>Here is The Information You Want</strong></h4>       <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse quis posuere ipsum, eget vehicula neque. Vivamus egestas, odio vitae convallis vulputate, nunc risus condimentum erat, quis tempor nibh felis sit amet ante. Maecenas varius sagittis purus ut tempor. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Pellentesque porttitor nec dui ac vehicula. Praesent tristique tortor in fermentum lacinia. Maecenas sapien lectus, dictum at nulla interdum, ultricies scelerisque dolor. Integer a dui id enim ultricies blandit id eu diam. Curabitur rutrum arcu mauris, viverra efficitur diam sagittis placerat. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.</p>       <p>Morbi augue neque, tempus at porttitor vitae, faucibus non nunc. Maecenas dignissim nec lacus vel dapibus. Donec urna ante, rhoncus sit amet ex id, congue dignissim felis. Suspendisse sit amet hendrerit est, sed ullamcorper orci. Praesent eu risus enim. Nulla facilisi. Sed facilisis odio vitae suscipit efficitur.</p>     </li>   </ul> ... View more

Just want to note that while you can currently edit Rich Text and even formulas in both the question prompts and answers, this particular request is about rich text in the student feedback that the instructor provides when students get correct or incorrect answers. Take a close look at the screen shot at the top of the thread to see what I mean. ... View more