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tbatiuk · ‎02-27-2020

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tbatiuk · ‎02-27-2020

I believe these are settings in PowerSchool, not Canvas, that is affecting this. So the sys admin for PowerSchool would be the point of contact for this rounding/truncating issue. Regarding how assignments are passed back, the best official Canvas doc to start here that I know of is: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-4133

tbatiuk · ‎02-27-2020

We made the 'View Grades' button more noticeable with a blinking red outline (annoying, but it's the most helpful part of the card layout Dashboard that students tend to miss) and overlaid the course grade marks on the course tiles.

tbatiuk · ‎02-27-2020

If the course enrollments are still active, you can masquerade as the student and select 'View Grades' so access the course grades in one printable screen. It's simplified but may serve your needs. Beyond that, you could select each course from that screen to access the gradebook if you need detailed information, but then you're jumping between courses which sounds like it may be a time sink. Our institution passes grades back with our SIS (PowerSchool), so we simply print from the SIS since it handles concluded enrollments for transferred out students a little more intuitively. Good luck!

tbatiuk · ‎02-27-2020

Hi there, My understanding that Canvas passes back the entire grade (decimals and all), but it is a system-wide PowerTeacher Pro setting (not user setting) to round those values. If assignments are rounding in an unhelpful way, you could touch base with the system administrator for PowerSchool about the current settings.

tbatiuk · ‎11-18-2019

Hi there, PBL-driven public charter school here, hello!

tbatiuk · ‎11-18-2019

Thank you! Keep us posted on your progress!

tbatiuk · ‎10-16-2019

Hi there, As we enter our third year, we are hearing from users with Observer roles that they have an unmanageable number of courses that appear on the dropdown menu used for checking grades. This is the main activity that Observers (mostly parents of K-12 students) log in to their account to do; however, an Observer of three students who have taken 3-6 courses each over two semesters these past three years is given so much information that it's difficult to wade through to the current term (see screenshot). An Observer with three students taking about 5 courses each already has 15+ courses on her Dashboard, but because the Grades page shows concluded courses, also, she then has nearly 50 on that dropdown menu with no filtering available! Is there any advice or workaround to support these parents so that they don't burn out on trying to use the Observer account effectively, especially as students spend more and more years with us in Canvas? Thank you!

tbatiuk · ‎06-29-2019

Hi all, Our institution used Javascript content tabs to add some much-needed functionality to "starter pages" used in all courses (see below). However, in anticipation of global Javascript like this no longer functioning in Canvas, we're looking at other solutions that are accessible, effective use of screen space, and (importantly) editable in the RCE so that teachers can manage their own page content. The move to React for InstUI seems to strike out for the latter use case of being user-friendly for any teacher (as with the old JS content tabs, teachers simply changed text in the RCE and that'd be reflected in formatting). Has anyone discovered any creative ways to display content on a screen like this that meets the basic criteria? Thanks!

tbatiuk · ‎06-27-2019

No luck on my end! I've started a conversation for the custom development team but the feature sounds like a non-starter. My best recourse currently is to work out a custom report to show student participation on a daily basis and have the office staff enter that in PowerSchool's attendance view...not ideal.

tbatiuk · ‎05-16-2019

Hi there, Does anyone know if it is possible to use API or otherwise to make mass changes to existing Calendar events, such as the text inside the event description? I'm having an issue where a LTI (Zoom) creates automated Canvas Calendar events with a URL in the description, but the format of the link needs to be different to direct students to the web client instead of desktop app. The developers have said that they are unable to add that functionality to the LTI itself. Basically, "/j/" within the URL would be changed to "/wc/" and then "/join" would be appended at the end. If anyone is familiar with some way to make mass changes to Calendar events that could achieve a purpose like this, I'd appreciate hearing about it! Thanks much.

tbatiuk · ‎05-10-2019

Ah, Colin, that is a great thought! Thank you for that, I am going to investigate further.

tbatiuk · ‎05-01-2019

Thanks, Robert! I appreciate your reply and I hope folks found it helpful. Since our position 1 authentication method is SAML, unfortunately the page we would need to modify is the SAML authentication page, as the Canvas login page is the position 2 method that I'd like to route parents to if their credentials are not found from the position 1 method. At least that is my understanding, but feel free to correct me if anyone sees this differently!

tbatiuk · ‎04-29-2019

Hi there, We use SAML authentication (Google) for the majority of our users, students on Chromebooks. Because this method is in position 1, when students log in to their device, their Dashboard automatically loads from ...login/saml without additional clicks. This is meaningful especially because we have younger students on devices. Parents use Observer accounts with passwords by logging in to .../login/canvas; however, they run into the problem that their Canvas notifications contain hyperlinks that route them to the SAML authentication, confusing most Observer users. Initially I set up a Discovery URL to address the authentication issue; however, this means that every student logging on to their Chromebook now has to select that they are a student upon logging in. This creates an extra step for students, again thinking of those younger ones. A suggestion was to customize the SAML authentication page with HTML & Javascript to include a button like "If you are a parent..." that directs to their Canvas authentication. Does anyone have experience customizing a SAML page for a purpose like this? That is unfortunately outside of our expertise. Thank you in advance!

tbatiuk · ‎04-23-2019

Hi Joe, Would you be able to provide any resources on how you accomplished this feature through the API? We are relatively new to API calls but this is a much-needed feature we would like to implement. Thank you!

tbatiuk · ‎04-19-2019

Hi all, Does anyone have experience with trying to send attendance data from Canvas (perhaps using the Roll Call tool or some other solution, e.g. using API calls to create a report of submissions) with a Student Information System? I am using PowerSchool, but really if anyone has had experience with custom apps or any other ways to address this with a different SIS, I would still love to hear about the experience. Teachers not being able to enter attendance in the LMS that is captured the same way grades are through grade passback has been a major pain point. Thank you!

tbatiuk · ‎02-10-2019

This single feature would improve SO much in our institution.

tbatiuk · ‎08-03-2018

Beautiful, thank you! I will give this a go. Perhaps where I'm stumbling is relegating this specifically to affecting users with the teacher role, but I'll keep at it.

tbatiuk · ‎08-03-2018

Hi there, I created a custom admin role enabling teachers to view all courses on the account (and no other functionality), but unfortunately this admin role defaults to also giving access to the Canvas Parent Tools LTI that is configured. This is not a permission that can be toggled under roles since it is LTI. I would like teachers to not have easy access to this, so hiding that content seems to be a good option to prevent easy access. I followed the excellent guide at (https://community.canvaslms.com/people/james) but have yet to produce the desired results. Here is what I have written: (function() { if (document.URL.endsWith(‘1?’) && ENV.current_user_roles.indexOf('teacher’) > -1) { $('a[href$="/104"]').remove(); } })(); And below is the code in question taken from that page (https://fca.instructure.com/accounts/1?😞 Would anyone be willing to point me in the right direction of improving this code? I greatly appreciate it. Thank you!

tbatiuk · ‎08-11-2017

Brenda and Linnea, this is so helpful! Thank you for information.

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Streamlining or removing previous courses from the grading menu of Observers Hi there, As we enter our third year, we are hearing from users with Observer roles that they have an unmanageable number of courses that appear on the dropdown menu used for checking grades. This...	10-16-2019	760	0
Formatting like content tabs editable in the RCE for a post-Javascript Canvas? Hi all, Our institution used Javascript content tabs to add some much-needed functionality to "starter pages" used in all courses (see below). However, in anticipation of global Javascript like th...	06-29-2019	752	4
Mass change existing Calendar event content? Hi there, Does anyone know if it is possible to use API or otherwise to make mass changes to existing Calendar events, such as the text inside the event description? I'm having an issue where a...	05-16-2019	534	0
Create custom SAML authorization page with link to login/canvas Hi there, We use SAML authentication (Google) for the majority of our users, students on Chromebooks. Because this method is in position 1, when students log in to their device, their Dashboard au...	04-29-2019	1432	1
Syncing attendance in Canvas with a SIS (e.g. PowerSchool) Hi all, Does anyone have experience with trying to send attendance data from Canvas (perhaps using the Roll Call tool or some other solution, e.g. using API calls to create a report of submissions...	04-19-2019	1979	4
Support completing code to hide a menu option in new Admin role Hi there, I created a custom admin role enabling teachers to view all courses on the account (and no other functionality), but unfortunately this admin role defaults to also giving access to the C...	08-03-2018	1168	3
How do you organize content for a flipped classroom? Our grades 5-9 online school utilizes the flipped classroom model for most courses. That means the week opens with a "starter video" and schedule for the week, so students can prep for their liv...	08-07-2017	1734	4

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