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Hi. This is my response to the Community Participant from Landmark College who contributed this method for obtaining transcripts from the downloaded str files of the CCs generated by Canvas Studio. Thank you for recognizing this need, and for the need for an efficient way to do this. I haven't tried out your method yet, but I hope it will be effective. I also found a 3rd party app, which I also haven't tried, but which is a Chrome add-on and promises to accomplish this same function. And it was suggested to me that if I am recording my own lecture via an audio recording feature on my smartphone, that I would be better off using a speech-to-text app which would bypass the need to generate CCs. I originally had the idea of running an audio recording through Studio, generating CCs, downloading them, then editing that file into a wrapped text for a readable transcript, which is much more efficient timewise to process than an audio lecture. I did initially try to copy paste the srt file into a Word document, then do a global search and replace function for each digit successively (i.e., 0-1-2, etc.). That eliminated all the numerals, but not the symbols or the punctuation that remained as vestiges of the time stamps. I believe there is a way to remove hard breaks in this search and replace function, and I was able to copy and paste the symbols (horizontal lines of some sort) and eliminate those, but I was reluctant to eliminate the punctuation marks, because that would also eliminate them in the CC text, and they are needed there. Anyway, I wonder how TED.com does it, because they seem to generate readable transcripts. I have also had my ESL students copy and paste transcripts of their own words, as represented by the CCs, from their own video or audio recordings, into the website tophonetics.com, where they can obtain a rendering of their text in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), as well as read aloud by an automated native English-speaking voice reader. This is quite empowering and instructive to them, because they have generated their own words from their own thoughts, rather than imitating words produced by others. Once they hear their own words read by a native English speaker, they can adjust their own speech to attain more clarity. Also, I have been looking for a way to produce CCs from a CC generator which does not have a semantic or syntatic processor, which could reproduce more accurately their produced speech on a phonologically processed level alone. This would provide them with visual feedback to help them perceive where their English speech production lacks clarity. I initially thought of this method, and sometimes it does work, but the CC processors now apparently incorporate multiple levels of linguistic processing (i.e., syntactic and semantic) which compensates for lack of clarity at the phonological level. Where could I find CC generators which reproduce the phonological level alone, so that speakers could get visual feedback to help them become more aware of phonological production clarity issues in their own speech? https://subtitletools.com/convert-subtitles-to-plain-text-online ... View more

not a useful answer, not answering the question.  ... View more

Both both zoom and Skype are good video conferencing tools, but I will still vote for Zoom because of its superior audio video quality. Other alternatives which are at par with these software's are R-HUB HD video conferencing., Webex, Gomeetnow, Gotomeeting etc. ... View more

This is an ongoing issue, and has been for years.  When trying to export questions or a question bank, you typically export the course or a quiz - you may also "copy course" if it is your course.  None of these methods export the actual images in any consistent basis.  They export links to the images in the course it came from.  If you look at the html and see the "verifier" in the image source, you know that it is linking to another course.  That works most of the time, as long as the other course exists and you don't change your questions in any way.  Edit them once though, and all those images are gone.  It's a horrible way for canvas to try to save space by including links to images rather than the images themseles.  It reduces sharing question banks to a crap shoot whenever there are images involved. ... View more

  Wow.. many years.. The last time I was there in Long Beach, was the Times the Rapper Snoop Dogg was there with his people the keep the parties going. My Military friends had told me that they were having a weekend party, in  Back yard Barbeque, because Snoop Dogg and his people were coming over.  But my last time I stop going over to the Long Beach area was when the Long Beach Police pulled me over and made me get out of my car, because, they were informed that a white man had beaten up his girlfriend and took her car. So as I was standing outside of my car, on the side of the little bridge, the police officer (Who was shaking in his has) ask me for my California Driver License, I gave him my U.S. Military card at the same time. That's when the Police officer whole attitude change into a person who knows other U. S. Military Police Officers and took me as not a threat, seeing that My Military looks original like his military friends. A since I was not a white man, they plainly see the I was not the person who they were looking for. So, that's when the Long Beach Police officer started talking to me, like an old friend, to the point, we were laying back to the police car, talking, while the cars where driving over the bridge, looking at us talking and looking at them, as they were looking at us, as if, you can read their eyes wondering why this Long Beach Police, is just standing there at on the Long beach police are there looking at there, looking at them.   ... View more

I'm an instructor and my students are getting the same message. I didn't know that there was a "publishing" step involved. How do I do that? ... View more

Dear Canvas, It would be really convenient if we could do this--download a student submission on iOS.  Thanks ... View more

Hi again,  @psingleton1  Two things again.... Your rubric is most likely not set to be used for assignment grading.  Go to the assignment rubric, click the little pencil icon (edit) on right, then click the checkbox to "Use this rubrics for assignment grading". Or, it is a grade posting policy as mentioned in my first posting. Kelley ... View more

 @fairodriguez205 , please refer to the answer in this thread about supported browsers; when a student can access courses through the app but sees a blinking dashboard on the web, it is nearly always due to an out-of-date browser. ... View more

I've been getting that message too all this week (4/12-4/15/20)  but eventually it lets me in, although once it took 8 mins to get into the Zoom session via conferzoom, and another day 5 mins, and my students had trouble too. Conferzoom support said their servers were overloaded. ... View more

Thank You This is just what I needed. ... View more

We (Temple University) allow teachers to add enrollments to courses, although they have to enroll them into non-SIS sections for everybody's sanity.  For courses/sections enrolled via SIS, we developed an LTI that allows instructors to manage the provisioning & enrollment of their  Banner listed courses, so they can decide whether or not to merge sections into a single course or to have all sections provisioned as separate courses. Faculty are required to provision their own courses in this way (unless the department has a coordinator who manages courses for faculty). In addition to SIS created courses, an employee (faculty and staff) can create a few different "ad hoc" shells: Sandbox (for goofing around/experimenting/testing functionality/training. Can not be enrolled via SIS) Administrative (this is the "standard" one - people use it for seminars, "cohort" classes (all students in a year, major, etc) and anything else that is needed that isn't in the SIS Template (for course templates; can not be enrolled via SIS) We also developed a tool for letting instructors search our LDAP directory for invite-less enrollments (the user isn't invited, just enrolled via the API (if the faculty wishes to send an invite, there's a checkbox). ... View more

This is a great question. I too wish the Canvas accessibility checker was more robust. Adding this feature would help us out (here where I am) a bunch! ... View more

Have you looked in the Commons?  While I doubt they have a complete course, there may be elements you could use there. Another possibility would be have the student look at the CVC-OEI. I'm pretty sure I saw a school offering German 3 there at one of the schools. ... View more

Hi  @10928392  Welcome to the Canvas Community. I'm wondering if this is a browser issue. Here are some ideas for you to try: Check your device compatibility:   What are the basic computer specifications for Canvas? Check your browser compatibility:   Which browsers does Canvas support?   Note that Internet Explorer 11 is   not a supported browser . Try a different browser. The latest version of Chrome works great in both Windows and MacOS. If none of these methods solve the problem, contact Canvas Support. General instructions are in   How do I get help with Canvas as a student?, but your school's support setup might vary somewhat, in which case ask your local IT Department for additional troubleshooting assistance. There may be some other reasons that you cannot access your courses in Canvas...some of which are outlined here: Why can't I access my Course as a student?    Sing out if you need a hand.  ... View more

Hi again,  @michael_smiley  ! Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. The are some additional helpful ideas at Online Foreign Language Course Ideas, but it seems like your biggest challenge is translating your in-person pedagogy to the online environment. This is much more challenging than most people understand. Here are some resources you might find helpful,  from both this Community and external sources..... Being There: Basic Strategies for Online Teaching Presence in Canvas LMS* Part I  Teaching Online with Doug, Edward, and Laura 🙂   What Online Teachers Have Learned From Teaching Online  7 Tips on How to Prepare for Teaching Online Peer Advice for Instructors Teaching Online for First Time My biggest tip is to keep it simple! Do not try to get tricky and all complicated until you are much more comfortable with the technology. Then, after becoming comfortable, continue to keep it simple! Believe me when I tell you that your students will not be impressed with your technology skills (unless you are teaching a tech course, and then only for that topic); but rather, will be impressed with your teaching skills, and technology is still just a tool to deliver instruction. Good luck on your grand new adventure! Kelley ... View more

HI  @mscalero ‌ Just a few thoughts- you will probably need to be sure that students have a way to opt out of their picture being automatically uploaded to Canvas or can be taken down. You are getting into FERPA territory.. We bulk upload photos (unless the student cites FERPA and doesn't want it posted - they have to sign a waiver in their admissions packet). We also allow students to upload their own and have not had any issues with anything inappropriate. One thing that we did run into with the ID's is the students get them taken first week of first year. By the time they are seniors they are four years older and that often doesn't really represent who they are anymore. ... View more

Hey so am new to this school and don't really know to much about it but at my old school i'll reply on canvas and i would have a reminder on my phone that i can be useful at times. ... View more