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2018? Ouch.  ... View more

@billingsley_l @MrNCMiller @lbasile @ashley_harvey @Nancy_Webb_CCSF  @hannah_crowder  @cgurysh @zoe_donaldson, @jtwalker, @jbrazil,  Agree with all have previously posted - sorry I can mention only 10 users in a post. Four years have passed from the time the idea was first created.  Instructors need the flexibilities to differentiate due dates in Assignments and Quizzes for a range of reasons: learning accommodations, time zone differences, and now rotation groups due to reduced classroom capacity in the COVID time. These students can't be categorized by Sections in the Student Info. System. The groups need to be formed by the instructor teaching the class.   Please, please, please work on this ASAP. Faculty could use their time on more meaningful interactions with students versus clicking on "add" and "assign to" 20 times for each quiz and homework assignment throughout the semester.  ... View more

From the research point of view, I'd like to see two more features added: - allows instructors to download the "review status" of all the voice and text comments in one assignment, and have that record sorted by student. This record will provide the foundation to compare if audio comments are more likely to be reviewed than text comments, and if the number of review times are correlated with future grades. Ideally, the details of "review status" should include when and how many times the comments were viewed or played. - increase default course space (or decrease the size of audio files) to accommodate audio comments so that the benefits of this feature can be optimized.   ... View more

Just had a Canvas chat about the voice annotation feature. Here are more suggestions: 1. larger icons for the user;  2. allows "annotated recordings" through the submission, vs. being lumped together at the corner of the screen. 3. allows the "title" of each sound clip to be displayed, or by default, numbered, vs. having the same title "This is a media comment". This would be hard for students to tell which ones have been played.  4. allows instructor to see if an audio comment has been played. (such as color change etc.)  **Perhaps for item 3 and 4, just make the play button a checkbox, visible to both prof. and student?** 5. allows the instructor to download all annotated submissions (with either audio or text-only annotations) at once. Professors can use this feature to track the progress of particular students or a whole class after a few assignments. Right now only text-annotated submissions can be downloaded by the instructor but it has to be done student by student.  6. allows the instructor to download all audio comments at once. This would allow researchers to conduct more analysis of effective audio comments using other software.  ... View more

** Oct. 4, 2016 ** To be specific, the one element of this feature idea that was implemented was "question details" are available for Question Banks of up to 50 questions, with the correct answer indicator (1'32", ). In a quiz, question details are still limited to 25 questions. ... View more

This idea really, really needs to be reconsidered. For instructors who are used to viewing all exam question details on paper, this will make them not want to migrate to Canvas. For instructors using question banks from the textbook, the 25 question limit is so easy to surpass. For programs where professors collaborate to build their own question banks, they need a much larger bank to share so that no questions are repeats for students. ... View more

I hope your major project is something like this, or better A table of content-like table that asks me to fill in: 1. the names of all the module in the course (i.e. I can copy and paste all 16 at once); 2. the names of the content pages, with the choice of deciding level of indentations (i.e. I can copy and paste in 8 module summary pages at once); And with a button "create course structure," I have a shell of the course. This would save numerous clicks on each item that needs to be duplicated. ... View more