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mcowen
Mike Cowen
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Mike has 20 years of experience in public education as a Teacher, Professional Development Specialist, Instructional Coach, and Director of Technology. He works closely with universities and k-12 school districts in student-centered change management. Mike has worked hands-on with hundreds of institutions with implementation and adoption strategies ranging from technical SIS integrations to vision and goal planning, professional development plans and course design. He also likes to play around with JavaScript, CSS and the Canvas API.
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For various reasons I decided to write a little CSS & JS to do the following:Load the modules page with all modules collapsed by defaultCreate a button on the modules page to Expand/Collapse all modul<!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- -->...
Templates are Awesome! They help create a solid launching point for creating quality courses.There are a couple of different ways to put a template in a new course shell.Importing a template course f...
To view the log of the latest import, go Admin>SIS Imports or https://_____.instructure.com/accounts/self/sis_importTo view the last 10 imports, add an 's' on the end of the previous URL https://_____...
Least year at InstructureCon16, we had a great Pre-conference session on badging. My notes show me these were the popular ones:CredlyBadgerOpen PassportBadge SafeWith Credly getting the most positive ...
The Provisioning report has a 'status' column in the Enrollments file. The status of 'invited' means that the invitation has been sent, but not yet accepted. You will probably want to get the Enrollm...
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I'm not sure I understand the question.If you mean:Q: How do I insert an SVG image into MSWord?" A: Click Insert > Pictures > Picture from File. (I'm on a Mac, so the exact name of the menu may be dif...
I just found this post while looking for other icon info. The master list of icons is found on the Instructure.design web site. There is a wealth of info there. Is seems to be mostly for developers, ...
For those who may see this thread in the future, all the icons can be found in the Instructure-ui library. Click on any of the icons to get the svg code. SVG code can be placed in a plain text editor ...
This might not be the perfect solution, but it is a launching point that does most of what you mentioned in your post.https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/canvas-developers/blog/2018/11/14/templatin...
There is not a single API endpoint that I know of that allows a user to get a list of all the questions groups. It can be done by linking together multiple APIs1) /api/v1/courses/course_id/quizzes/ wi...
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