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MsTia · ‎12-07-2022

In the desktop browser version, if you have published the quiz (that is, your "Published" button is green with a checkmark), then clicking the quiz from your instructor account should show several "Related Items" options. These options will be at the top right of your screen, or father below, depending on how you sized your screen. "Moderate this Quiz" and "SpeedGrader" should be visible no matter what, but "Quiz Statistics" will ALSO be visible if any students have turned in your quiz. I click "Moderate Quiz" to see at a glance who's begun, who's finished and submitted, and who's not done anything yet. But if I don't even see the Quiz Statistics option, I know my quiz is just waiting for its moment in the sun. If you can't see ANY of those "Related Item" options for a published quiz, your window may be sized narrowly, and you'll see them waaaaaay down below your Preview button. Hope that helps.

MsTia · ‎12-05-2022

Images are missing from uploaded PowerPoints, and I can't detect a pattern. Very frustrating! Sometimes it's an image overlaid atop another within a slide; sometimes it's just a plain old, unlayered image. I'm pretty sure the missing images were originally various formats. I've happily used BBB on Canvas for years without this happening before. Thoughts? What can I try? I may convert to PDF first and then upload as a workaround. If that helps, I'll report back here.

MsTia · ‎05-16-2022

Hooray! Following progress at status.instructure.com helped me keep hope alive and it's WORKING now. Thanks, nwilson7 , for that link.

MsTia · ‎05-16-2022

Some SpeedGrader functions are still not working. I tried multiple browsers and devices and physical locations within DC metro area. Tough for in-class presentations and year-end grading and feedback. I'm in IAD area (and maybe AWS region us-east-1). Error message: "Service is currently unavailable. Try again later."

MsTia · ‎10-06-2021

Another user, here. I offer these Captain Obvious ideas tentatively, because I realize you're very familiar with this stuff. If you click the HTML editor link that looks like </> at the bottom right corner of your RCE box, you might see some unexpected formatting code. I have sometimes inadvertently overridden text colors when I too-magnanimously swept my mouse, not realizing it until later. Typically, when I hit a hard return after copying a URL into an RCE box, that text turns blue and remains so for the published product for my students; but sometimes there's a lag when I have not-excellent WiFi connection on my end and it sorta "doesn't stick." When that happens, waiting a bit or saving and trying later helps. And . . . you've probably tried erasing a chunk of stuff and starting afresh already . . . but that sometimes that works for me when I'm out of other options. Hoping you figure this out & publish your solution if you do.

MsTia · ‎10-06-2021

I'm an instructor. I have several conferences that were most definitely recorded and are most definitely within the two-week period -- yet the links to play the presentations are suddenly unavailable to me and my students. One conference (yesterday) took over six hours to render and appear, though it was only about 50 minutes long; and now its playable link has vanished. I have tested this. Yesterday, I recorded a conference of just under a minute. After quite a long period, it appeared for playback -- hooray! But now, just a day later, it cannot be played because the link for playback is no longer present. Help? Suggestions? I have used BBB Conferences on Canvas for several years. This is a new behavior. I can't submit a help ticket because I'm a free-loading FFT user, unable to chip in for the wonderful advice of those Canvas help desk folks. Grateful for assistance. PS: How I hope this succeeds in posting. On my first go, I received the message "An Unexpected Error has occurred. Your request failed. Please contact your system administrator and provide the date and time you received the error and this Exception ID: 37FF74E2. Click your browser's Back button to continue." I betcha it was because I didn't choose a Label, but who knows? Resubmitting yesterday after fixing a Label got me cyber-thwacked for flooding because I clicked submit before an hour had passed. Crossing my fingers . . . .

MsTia · ‎10-04-2021

I got a "flood" error message when I tried to submit a question earlier. I clicked "Post" right after deleting tags that evidently were not permitted in the Labels field (e.g. "Recording" and "BigBlueButton"). The post had not been submitted on the first round due to the error detection in the Labels field, but I got cyber-whapped anyway. The flooding error message indicates I cannot correct the problem the system pointed out with my post unless I can wait . . . a full hour? Tested and confirmed. Sheesh. Canvas folks, pretty please, could you maybe jiggle that setting to say, a half-minute or so? Or add a case for user error correction? "Correct the highlighted errors and try again. Post flooding detected (community received posts of a unique message more than 1 times within 3600 seconds)." PS: How I'd love to be able to pay Canvas a little something for my little classes. I miss support. I hardly ever contacted them, but those folks were lovely! And right now, I miss being able to quickly post a question in the forum for the hive mind. Ah, well. Guess I'll come back tomorrow. PPS: Don't try to use tags in the Labels field, folks. Just don't.

MsTia · ‎10-04-2021

Thanks for explaining where to best ask for documentation changes, Chofer. Appreciated. I'll get right on that. For anyone finding this thread, I might have mentioned that students can see instructor comments on individual quiz questions simply by opening a submitted quiz (through Quizzes, Gradebook, or a Module if the quiz is located inside one). The comments look like this:

MsTia · ‎09-16-2021

I'm an instructor who would like to point students to a help file that answers: "How do I view instructor comments on individual quiz questions?" Editing this page seems logical to me: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Student-Guide/How-do-I-view-quiz-comments-from-my-instructor/ta-p/471 The blue comment box at the top says: "While grading your quiz, your instructor may leave comments for the whole quiz. You can view these comments on the Grades page and on the Submission Details page." I'm pretty sure the help page addresses only instructor feedback for the WHOLE quiz -- not INDIVIDUAL questions. I've read it several times. (But if I'm missing something . . . can someone point that out? And thanks.) For my formative quizzes: I often preload feedback and related information in the General Answer Comments (grey) field for individual quiz questions I allow students to see correct answers after submitting ("right away") I frequently make personalized comments on individual questions after a student has submitted a quiz. That last bit is where some tweaking to the documentation would really help me. I know you can't make my students actually VIEW all my loving feedback (if only!) but jiggering the help page on this topic would be terrific. PS: Here's an old thread, where this same question was posed, but answer refers only to feedback for the WHOLE quiz: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/How-do-students-view-instructor-comments-on-individual-quiz/m-p/485238#M161054

MsTia · ‎09-16-2021

Alas, the page linked in the answer does not answer the original poster's question -- it was about INDIVIDUAL quiz question comments, not comments for the WHOLE quiz. I know this is an old post, but as it comes up at the top of search results, I thought I'd mention it here. I'll repost the question as new.

MsTia · ‎12-01-2020

Could Canvas integrate open-source Ruffle, or something like it, so my students could run .swf files in a Canvas course from their browsers? Like many instructors, I use excellent, interactive animations that were written in Flash or Adobe Shockwave or Adobe Flash as .swf files. These animations are now doomed by Adobe's ending support and textbook publishers taking down old textbook companion sites. Dozens of worthy biology animations that I've relied upon are now going the way of the dodo. As for running them anyhow, only some of my students are savvy enough to confidently download good ole Flash (even with instructions for doing it safely) and others use OS that just won't make Flash "go" without having to add other software. Too many barriers. Ding dong. Flash is dead. Accepting my fate, I've tried to find worthy substitutions for each animation that will simply run on web browsers via HTML5. That's been a time-sucking task with little result. Therefore, I was thrilled when I found out that archive.org is backing up jillions of .swf files and making them run easily for users via the open-source Ruffles emulator: http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-forever-at-the-internet-archive/ The focus there is games, though. My question: could Canvas make Ruffles available for us? Or another solution? If so, my students could just run the .swf files I'm able to dish up. Without getting too sticky over this . . . THAT WOULD BE PERFECTION. The founder effect dragonflies could soar again! https://ruffle.rs/#what-is-ruffle

MsTia · ‎12-01-2020

Like many instructors, I use excellent, interactive animations that were written in Flash or Adobe Shockwave or Adobe Flash as .swf files. These animations are now doomed by Adobe's ending support and textbook publishers taking down old textbook companion sites. Dozens of worthy biology animations that I've relied upon are now going the way of the dodo. As for running them anyhow, only some of my students are savvy enough to confidently download good ole Flash (even with instructions for doing it safely) and others use OS that just won't make Flash "go" without having to add other software. Too many barriers. Ding dong. Flash is dead. Accepting my fate, I've tried to find worthy substitutions for each animation that will simply run on web browsers via HTML5. That's been a time-sucking task with little result. Therefore, I was thrilled when I found out that archive.org is backing up jillions of .swf files and making them run easily for users via the open-source Ruffles emulator: http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-forever-at-the-internet-archive/ The focus there is games, though. My question: could Canvas make Ruffles available for us? Or another solution? If so, my students could just run the .swf files I'm able to dish up. Without getting too sticky over this . . . THAT WOULD BE PERFECTION. The founder effect dragonflies could soar again! https://ruffle.rs/#what-is-ruffle Meanwhile, if an instructor in a similar situation is reading this, you can test-run a .swf here to see if it will "go" in their emulator: https://ruffle.rs/demo/ That could be a work-around for you, while you figure out other things. I'm fiddling with that approach now.

MsTia · ‎09-25-2020

Jennifer, this may be an imperfect workaround, but if I did not have the power to make sections to differentiate, yet wanted to give just Johnny and Maria a different assignment from the general one, this is what I'd do: Assign "Week 06 Homework" to Everyone (so I don't have to type all those names) Go into that general assignment in Speed Grader or Grades, and EXEMPT with "EX" for just Johnny & Maria (that's pretty quick) Assign "Week 06 Homework Modified" to just Johnny and Maria (again, just a couple of quick clicks) Of course, one downside is that I'd have to tell Johnny & Maria that they have a different version & to please ignore the exempted one. There's no way I know to make this differentiation invisible and seamless without sections, alas. But, happily, even though they can SEE the exempted assignment, they cannot accidentally turn it in. I have in fact done this to differentiate WITHIN a section, when I needed to serve out something a LITTLE different for Johnny and Maria only.

MsTia · ‎09-21-2020

"Only the section(s) specified in the assignment details can view the assignment." That's what it says HERE: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-assign-an-assignment-to-a-course-section/ta-p/914 . . . but it sounds like that's not true for you. This may not answer your question, but here are some thoughts from another instructor who also differentiates with sections. I'm pretty confident students cannot turn in an assignment dedicated to a section they're not in. In five years of using FFT, that's never happened in my courses. (And if it could've, it would've!) I did have a case a few days ago in which an Observer could see an assignment title for a student that was not hers. However, I had NOT restricted her to just her student's section when I issued her course invitation. A few possibilities occurred to me when I read your post. If obvious, forgive me. Students from Section A would be able to see assignments for Section B if the instructor had inadvertently ALSO assigned the item to the general course. That little warning we skip over each time we save an edited version of a quiz or assignment, I guess, could cause a sleepy person to go back and assign the item to everyone. Not saying YOU were sleepy! But I've been. When I've been selecting sections or students for an assignment, my mouse wheel has sometimes gotten over-enthused and chosen "Everyone Else." If only briefly. Again, just a thought. A final idea that may also be obvious, but here goes: my assignment- and quiz-naming convention for differentiated items usually adds an "Honors" or "AP" or "On-Level" at the end of the title, to match the section. Helps ME keep things straight, if nothing else. If students were able to see the titles of assignments assigned to other sections, this would help them, too. Just for fun . . . I am testing to see if students in Section A can see titles of assignments for Section B, and if so, what happens when they click. Will update if relevant.

MsTia · ‎09-21-2020

FFT (Free For Teachers) user, here. Whaddya know, release notes have magic inside! (But you know, busy teaching and not particularly technical. And back in April, immersed in other stuff.) When my computer crashes or my weary hand stupidly closes a window, and -- BOOM ! -- I've lost my draft "Week 07 Read Me First" page that was to be the headliner in my Week 07 Module, it's all I can do to hoist up my Big Girl Pants and not blubber. I won't say I always succeed. But didja know? Didja know? FFT instructors, we can enable a one-hour time machine by going to: Settings > Feature Options tab . . . . . . and then slide the "RCE Auto-Save" from black to GREEN. Poof! Now, the wizards at Canvas might save your lost work and marbles one fine day. Or night. That is, if your work had been inside a Rich Content Editor (RCE) window, like the ones in which you type your quiz and assignment instructions. And that page you saved earlier today, but in which you have been beavering away since, inserting many preciously captured links, images, and text. The RCE windows are those big, fat fields with the nice little toolbar on top that has icons for bold, italic, underline . . . insert URL . . . bullets . . . toggle to HTML . . . yadda, yadda. Old news for the informed, but shiny and new for me, were these FFT release notes on April 8, 2020 by @scottdennis: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Free-For-Teacher-Users/Free-for-Teacher-Gets-An-Update/bc-p/409116#M134 Posting here because it looks really quiet over there at FFT forum. I stole this explanation from University of Delaware, because I don't have access to the "further info" link in Scott's post (Exception ID: 190D0814, for what it's worth): New Rich Content Editor Auto Save A new Auto-Save feature option is available if you are a user of the New Rich Content Editor (RCE). If enabled in a course, when a user enters content into the editor window, the editor automatically saves the content for up to one hour if the user navigates away from the page. If the user returns to the page within the hour, Canvas will notify the user if any saved content is different from the existing content. The user can preview the auto-saved content and select the Yes button to load the auto-saved content or the No button to discard the auto-saved content. Possible magic. If you enable it.

MsTia · ‎09-21-2020

Always appreciate FFT upgrades! Thanks. The Calendar event title wrap is very sweet. But the RCE auto-save???? Omigosh!! If only I had paid attention earlier. This is huge. Kudos, indeed.

MsTia · ‎09-21-2020

Try this? How do I view annotation feedback comments from my instructor directly in my assignment submission? https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Student-Guide/How-do-I-view-annotation-feedback-comments-from-my-instructor/ta-p/523 It's in the Student Guide.

MsTia · ‎09-21-2020

Before somebody smarter answers this, you might look at this conversation. Lots of good details there that may pertain to your situation. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Question-Forum/Move-Zoom-meeting-from-one-course-to-another/td-p/202792 A quick workaround could simply be an Announcement with Zoom invitation details.

MsTia · ‎09-21-2020

Having access to your previous annotations and other feedback depends on whether they use the app or the browser version. catherine_carne rocked my world when she wrote: 07-26-2020 10:01 PM Yes, students can see the prior teacher annotations with the app. Whether they will look or not is a whole different ballgame. And it's true.

MsTia · ‎09-21-2020

UPDATE: Scholastic/NYT Upfront people did the magic verification on their end, about 2 days later, and the links work beautifully now when I add the item to a Module using the External Tool option, which calls up the tool I previously added to basic LTI integration via settings.Students click the link in the Module. They get a new page with a button. They click THAT, and it's off to the races with the online subscription. Yippee! Well, it works for every single student but one . . . still trying to figure that one out.

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