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soxford · ‎10-19-2022

Content in dark mode is also an issue if the instructor has chosen to remove highlighting by choosing a white background/highlighting instead of no background. The accessibility checker does not identify this as an issue and the teacher creating it cannot visually see that the white highlighting is used instead of no background. Unfortunately, the dark mode does not change the white background/highlighting to black, and then there is white text on a white background. This also occurs with a div and text box background that is white when instructors call out important information on the page. Can the developer team fix this issue so that when there is a white background/highlighting the text stays black or the white background turns black? Instead, this becomes a huge accessibility issue since students are not warned when turning on the dark mode that they may not see all the content in the class.

soxford · ‎01-23-2020

I don't see why student photos were removed from the gradebook. They should be there as a option.

soxford · ‎06-26-2017

Elizabeth, When you share, would you be able to tell me if those images had alt tags? I have been able to get images to come over if they don't have the alt tags. But when they do have the alt tags they won't come over into the quiz.

soxford · ‎05-12-2017

Hi Kelly, Thanks for the feedback. I am now following the site and tagged this idea for Quizzes_New since I did not see it in the list of ideas.

soxford · ‎05-12-2017

I see that this has been a request for Canvas since 2015 it is now two years later. I know a lot of instructors at our institution that would like this feature. Our previous LMS allowed for quizzes to count as extra credit and it is difficult to not have a simple solution.

soxford · ‎05-12-2017

One of our faculty noticed that surveys in Canvas can't be officially anonymous. Students need to know that their feedback is actually anonymous for surveys to work. Right now, an anonymous survey can be made anonymous and then edited after the students have responded to make it no longer anonymous. This allows the teacher to see the student individual responses. A simple solution would be to grey out that button once students have started taking the quiz/survey just like some of the other features in the quiz/survey once the survey has been started. I found a similar request in the archives: Improve Anonymous Submissions - Graded Survey/Quiz

soxford · ‎05-02-2017

Yes, a What if feature for faculty that works similar to what a student sees would be my vote as well. As @James Jones mentions. This is the best way to model for students the what if feature that is available for use.

soxford · ‎04-19-2017

Requiring a certain number of reply's to comments would be quite helpful. I have had many instructors ask about this feature in Canvas ( they had it in their other LMS). Please add. It would be a great addition and make it easier for students to tell if they have met the criteria of posting more than once. With long discussion threads it is hard for them to tell how many times they have posted. A bonus to this feature would be if in speedgrader it also had a summary for the teacher of how many posts/repies the student made.

soxford · ‎04-13-2017

Hi Renee, I am looking for a way to hide the assignment group total but not the Final grade. Is there a way to do this?

soxford · ‎04-13-2017

Is there another idea out there about a timestamp for a student having read the comment or the comment being sent to their email via notifications? I like the timestamp for croc doc and appreciate the implementation. There are many moving from a different LMS that did give a date and time for comments viewed on assignments and discussions. It has been helpful for instructors and they have relied on that knowledge. I would hope that we could use this for Canvas as well.

soxford · ‎04-13-2017

Yes, this will make it much easier to know which student is being graded. With large numbers of students I have had to double check that I am on the right student.

soxford · ‎09-20-2016

Hello I come from a D2L School and we are transitioning to Canvas. One of the instructors that I am working with has a course in Etudes that they would like to transfer over to Canvas. I re-call seeing information about the migration tool, but currently can't find any recent information. Do you have any suggestions on where to look? Thanks.

soxford · ‎06-06-2016

This is a feature that we have used in our LMS for years. As we switch to Canvas, I was surprised to find it not available in Canvas. Is there another place to vote this up or re-open for vote? We have many instructors that have an anonymous question board that is used as a best practice on our campus.

soxford · ‎06-03-2016

Hello Elizabeth, We have figured out one of the issue with the images with D2L and Respondus Quizzes. I wonder if it is the same with yours. When the image has an alt text ( which all should) the image does not transfer over to the quiz. Instead with a D2L quiz, the alt text is the only thing that transfers. If the image does not have an alt text the image transfers into the quiz we then still need to edit the image and add the alt text.

soxford · ‎04-27-2016

Hello Dave, we have not tried that but have had problems with moving quizzes from D2L to Canvas that have randomized questions. We end up having to re-create the quiz with the quiz banks. What issues have you had with quizzes?

soxford · ‎04-19-2016

Great presentation! Helpful to think of questions & ideas for large institutions moving from one LMS to Canvas.

soxford · ‎03-24-2016

Hello Tracie, I don't know if it did it for you, but when I am in the app and the list appears I can click on the link to the other page. I am then re-directed to log in via the web version of Canvas. It would be nice if the app recognized the page without having to be re-directed.

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