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stimme · ‎09-29-2022

@ebealle The instructor guide How do I create a Multiple Answer question in New Quizzes? layouts out the way partial credit is calculated if the option "partial credit with penalty" is selected. (The other choice is all or nothing exact match, which is pretty clear.) The reason "partial credit without penalty" is not an option is that it would let students select all answers and get full credit every time; it would let students game the system. There's a feature idea conversation (Partial Credit for Multiple Answers WITHOUT Penalty)where some commenters are asking for the partial credit without penalty calculation. But the original poster and some commenters are expressing a need for no penalty at the same time as constraining how many possible answers a student may select. That idea could be considered a distinct question type, and one commenter called it "multi select".

stimme · ‎08-29-2022

@kroeninm I have also been trying to get a handle on this, Melanie. I believe that feature flags are not available in production, and specific ETAs have not been announced. The page about feature flags indicates that they're in Beta (which I do see in my institution's beta system: 3 account-level flags) but that they won't come to prod until the RCE integration, which does not have specific ETAs. This is not clearly reflected in the timeline or transparency pages. The timeline goals were set (I believe) last fall, and the dependency on the RCE integration was recognized later. I hope this helps! - Sam

stimme · ‎08-12-2022

It looks to me like there's a boolean quiz_lti key in module items returned by the endpoint to list module items (https://canvas.emory.edu/doc/api/modules.html#method.context_module_items_api.index). It appears to be true for New Quizzes (presumably to help present special options in the triple dot menu for New Quizzes module items). This should help to distinguish between New Quizzes & other assignments.

stimme · ‎07-14-2022

Classic discussions show each user's pronouns in parentheses after their names when pronouns are set. I just set pronouns for myself and noticed that my pronouns do not display in React Discussions. Is there a target date for pronoun display in React Discussions?

stimme · ‎06-29-2022

With Canvas Data, you could create a report for external tool assignments & external tool module links. You can download the files from the Canvas Data Portal link in the account admin tab. The files you need are assignment_dim, course_dim, external_tool_activation_dim, and module_item_dim (account_dim and enrollment_term_dim are often also helpful to aggregate by sub-account or term). Once you get these files and expand them, you could import them as sheets in Excel. For assignment_dim, you can use the values in the external_tool_id column for VLOOKUP on the external_tool_activation_dim table finding in the id column and returning from the name column. For module_item_dim, you can use the same approach by filtering down to the ContextExternalTool type of items and looking up the url values. I hope this makes sense. Your note about coding skills made me think giving SQL queries would be less helpful than recommending Excel techniques. Good luck!

stimme · ‎05-23-2022

New Quizzes does not yet offer the same Student Analysis report that Quizzes had. Right now it's prioritized among features to complete before July 2023. See https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Quizzes-Transition/Transparency-into-Quizzes-Planning/ta-p/502615

stimme · ‎04-13-2022

The 2022-03-30 code deploy added the option to edit times in the Assignment Bulk Editor. It would be helpful (and consistent with design in other areas) for the date picker that opens when a field is selected to include hour, minute, and AM/PM fields. Credit to @chriscas for pointing this out in feature Q&A.

stimme · ‎03-16-2022

Hi @RanjeetSingh , I think the most likely explanation is that the payload for https://jhu.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/1188/content_migrations is a blank array because the course has no content migrations. The URL you mentioned - https://jhu.instructure.com/courses/1188/pages/000-migration-exception-log - is not where Canvas would display content migrations normally. This URL indicates some user created a page in the course showing some migration exception log, most likely copied & pasted. Course 1188's own content migrations would be at https://jhu.instructure.com/courses/1188/content_migrations. I tested the API with a course of my own that did contain content migrations, and I'm getting the same info in the GUI & API. I hope this helps. Sam

stimme · ‎03-07-2022

@jsailor , you said above to rmartini: I'd love to hear your opinion on what you'd expect to see if a filter was applied for two groups who have different assignments made available to them. I thought I would chime in on this. My initial expectation is that the filter conditions for student groups & sections apply to the rows of students and that the other conditions apply to the columns of assignments. If updated conditions for student groups & sections allowing multiple selections would apply to the columns, then I would expect assignments to be included if they were assigned to any selected students (cells representing non-assigned submissions could be grayed out as they are when no filters are applied).

stimme · ‎03-02-2022

I would just like to echo @rmartini 's observation that the tray workflow is adding a lot of clicks. I wish that opening the tray immediately showed all seven filter conditions' menus rather than forcing us into the workflow of naming & saving a reusable filter. I like the added option to saved filters, but I don't think they should be the default. I also wish that the Applied Filters display were not tied to the saved filter names, because it's not informative if you just apply conditions on the fly (says "Unnamed Filter"). The Applied Filters display would be immediately informative if it stated the conditions applied (e.g. "Module: Mod 2"), and this is true whether saved filters exist and are used or not.

stimme · ‎01-28-2022

Hello @AlexSchneider , Canvas Data does not have fields or tables dedicated to blueprints. If you're keen on working with the requests table, you could reconstruct the relationships and activities of blueprint courses by selecting rows where web_application_controller = 'master_courses/master_templates'. But the simplest way to get the relationships at this time is through the Canvas API. Use the Accounts API's List Active Course in Account endpoint with the 'blueprint' parameter set to true. Use the Blueprint Courses API's Get associated course info endpoint with the list of course IDs obtained in step 1. Regards, Sam

stimme · ‎01-21-2022

@martin_kabat Hello. I notice you say, "We allocated two fields that would be helpful user_email and created_by_sis." Does allocating fields mean adding custom fields using the Canvas Users API? (https://canvas.emory.edu/doc/api/users.html#method.custom_data.set_data) If so, you must use the related Canvas Users API to load custom user data, because it is not part of the Canvas Data schema. For email addresses in Canvas Data, you could join the user_dim table and the communication_channel_dim tables on user_dim.id = communication_channel_dim.user_id and select where communication_channel_dim.type = 'email'.

stimme · ‎12-03-2021

Hey Jeff, Sorry if this is old news, but the CD1 submission_comment_dim table does have comment = "This is a media comment." for media comment records. This might be useful for your report in the short term. - Sam

stimme · ‎10-25-2021

There are discussions and blogs in Portuguese. But I do not know what countries the users who post there are from.

stimme · ‎10-25-2021

Hello, @mariobkb1 ! There are Canvas guides in Portuguese at: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Recursos-em-Portugu%C3%AAs-Portuguese/ct-p/portuguese_resources https://pt-br.guides.instructure.com/ I hope this helps!

stimme · ‎09-24-2021

When viewing a thread tray, you can either compose your reply or view existing replies, but you can't see the replies while composing yours. I think it would benefit students replying in the context of a lively thread tray to be able to refer to all the existing replies while composing their own. (The new quotation feature only shows one other reply, not all.)

stimme · ‎07-21-2021

Hello @pdigiacobbe , Another approach to consider is using the Users API to get page views outside the 300 records in the CSV download. The basics of the endpoint are explained at https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/users.html#method.page_views.index It allows you to specify start_time and end_time values. Although it's not explicit, you can also specify up to 100 records per page and page number. With those, your API address would be like: https://[school].instructure.com/api/v1/users/[number]/page_views?per_page=100&start_time=20210101&end_time=20210531&page_number=1 You could increase the page number value until you get all results for that user. If the number of TAs is at all high, you'd probably want to script this process.

stimme · ‎07-09-2021

Daily dumps include one day's requests. That's what you'll get if you're downloading the latest dump or get dumps by ID. If you want to get the complete snapshot (meaning the complete requests log & latest version of other tables) using the Canvas Data API, try the sync endpoint (GET /api/account/(:accountId|self)/file/sync). I should note that I use the CLI, not the API, to get Canvas Data files. But the commands have the same names, so I suspect they work the same way.

stimme · ‎05-19-2021

@ryucali After comparing the records in quiz_dim, quiz_submission_dim, and quiz_submission_fact, I can confirm that the quiz_submission_fact table leaves out the submissions that have no submission_id values, which are the practice_quiz and ungraded survey quizzes. This quirk surprised me, too, when I noticed it. The documentation in Canvas Data Portal doesn't make it clear that there is this inconsistency between the two tables.

stimme · ‎03-30-2021

@peytoncraighill - When you posted RCE Updates - Summer 2020, it was a huge relief because you affirmed what a lot of feature ideas had pointed out as backward steps compared to the old RCE. The improvements in the second half of 2020 were great. Thank you for your excellent work on the New RCE!

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When will React Discussions show pronouns? Classic discussions show each user's pronouns in parentheses after their names when pronouns are set. I just set pronouns for myself and noticed that my pronouns do not display in React Discussions. ...	07-14-2022	264	2
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