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akhuebel · ‎08-12-2022

Thank you! That's better than nothing! I'm really vexed with Instructure about this. At least I'll be able to see if there's a problem, but leaving me with no way to fix something I'm legally required to fix is really unacceptable, especially when they tout the accessibility of Canvas. Anne

akhuebel · ‎08-11-2022

If this question has been answered somewhere, please tell me where! I am accessibility checking content created by others. I am looking at a quiz created in New Quizzes. There is an image embedded in the stimulus content. How do I find out what (if any) alt text is provided for that image? I have tried selecting the image and clicking the upload media button in the toolbar, but that only gives me the option of uploading new media. It does not provide information about the image that is already there. The Canvas instructor's guide only shows how to add alt text when you embed the image, not how to check it or edit it once the image is already embedded. Thank you, Anne

akhuebel · ‎08-11-2022

I'm very glad to hear this, but I would hesitate to call the accessibility checker a "cool" feature. It is an essential feature and should never have been left out to begin with. I'm trying to check accessibility of quizzes made in New Quizzes right now and it is a nightmare.

akhuebel · ‎07-18-2022

I am annoyed by this issue too. I am trying to share a page with linked sub-pages as a resource for a department on campus. Pages with linked sub-pages is by far the best way to create this resource, but I cannot arrange it that way if it cannot be shared on Commons.

akhuebel · ‎03-23-2022

In this case I was not cutting and pasting. I was typing from scratch. It was weird. Yes, removing the relevant bit of HTML was a solution, but it was very time consuming. My IT department found a slightly better work around but no reason it was happening. It was a mystery bug.

akhuebel · ‎01-18-2022

In the original case, I was typing the link text and using the RCE to insert the link. Of course at this point, the RCE has been redesigned so I don't know if the error would occur the same way. My IT person said it looked like the links were being copied, but I showed her that it was happening even when I typed from scratch. We never figured out why.

akhuebel · ‎10-12-2021

Just so everyone knows, if you use the quiz tool, you can set the time limit, but if you are using the file upload question type, you cannot use the SpeedGrader annotation tools to mark up the file like you can if you are using the assignment tool. If you really need to use the annotation tools to grade files the students upload, then quizzes won't work for you. Using quizzes, you would need to download each student's file into a word processing program and use its comments/markup tool, then re-upload the file in the SpeedGrader comments.

akhuebel · ‎10-12-2021

Canvas admins, I would like this question to be opened as a new thread regarding New Quizzes because the same issue is occurring there. I'm disappointed with New Quizzes as it seems to have some of the same problems as Classic Quizzes (like this) and new problems (such as not being able to set a day/time for releasing correct answers) even though the new question types are very useful. Thanks, Anne Huebel

akhuebel · ‎09-30-2021

I never heard any reason why it was happening. Anne

akhuebel · ‎08-27-2021

I just started playing with New Quizzes and am really disappointed that there is not a way to choose dates to release correct answers. Like most of the posters here, I like to give students multiple attempts, so I allow them to see what they did right and wrong, but I hide the correct answers. I always set a date for the correct answers to appear so I don't have to remember to go in and manually change it. With New Quizzes, my workload will be larger because I have to take the trouble to manually allow students to see the correct answers before they study for exams. It's nuts!

akhuebel · ‎08-25-2021

I was just reading about specifications grading today and my first thought was it would be a nightmare in the Canvas gradebook. I can only hope that Canvas can make the gradebook flexible enough to encompass spec grading at some point. As Suzanne said, it's frustrating to find an interesting teaching idea, and one that has been around for half a decade, and then be thwarted by the Canvas gradebook. The only thing I can think of is to have some documents like Robert Talbert (see "Specifications grading: We may have a winner " available so students can keep track of where they are.

akhuebel · ‎08-17-2021

I wholeheartedly agree with this suggestion. It should have been implemented years ago.

akhuebel · ‎08-17-2021

I really dislike the announcement feature that posts the announcements when you hit save. I wish Announcements were like all the other Canvas features and could be saved but unpublished without using the delay date feature. I get caught by this every 6 months or so, including today and now I'm wasting time saying "don't worry about that announcement; I inadvertently posted it by saving." I also agree that control over announcements when copying/importing is very important.

akhuebel · ‎06-24-2021

I was just hearing about something called Intelligent Agents that works with another (possibly more than one?) LMS. It sounds exactly like what we need--the ability to set up reminders and alerts that are tailored to our class needs.

akhuebel · ‎04-18-2021

I have had multiple students do this by "accidentally" posting just a letter or a punctuation mark so they could see others' posts and then plagiarizing their classmates. Needless to say, they fail the discussion. I will be putting strong language against this in the instructions next time since they clearly do not think I'm smart enough to figure out what they're doing (sigh). I have also had more savvy students who must have edited or deleted their original posts instead of leaving the tell-tale sloppy "accidental" posts. I will be setting future discussions so they cannot edit or delete their original post.

akhuebel · ‎03-15-2021

I just ran into a situation where I'd love the ability to add 2 rubrics to an assignment. I have a project update that quite a few students did not do well on and I'd like to have 1 rubric to grade (this is complete, incomplete, missing) and one to provide feedback (if I were grading this, here's where you'd fit right now), with comments for improvement. If I were teaching in person, it would be simple to scrap my idea of grading based on quality and just provide feedback on improvement for the major project, but on Canvas it's not so simple unless I do the feedback rubric in a document and upload one for each student. For a 50-student class, that's a lot of work.

akhuebel · ‎02-24-2021

Interestingly, after having the problem I described above, I tried the manual setting in another course and it worked. I still have no idea what the problem is.

akhuebel · ‎02-22-2021

Both comments and grades have been entered. I'm using a rubric to grade and I have made my choices and saved the rubric. I have entered my comments and submitted.

akhuebel · ‎02-20-2021

I have an assignment (a discussion) set to manual grade posting. It clearly says "manual" at the top. However, now that I've graded some submissions, I can see that there is no eye indicating that grades are hidden. Also, students are seeing comments. Why is the manual posting policy for this assignment not working?

akhuebel · ‎02-17-2021

I would like to be able to post a graded discussion, grade it, and then duplicate the discussion with all the original posts and replies. Ideally, the original posts/replies would not be editable. That would enable the students to add to the conversation and I could easily grade the new posts (there would automatically be a new gradebook entry), but students could not edit old posts. This would make it easier to create ongoing conversations about broad, open-ended questions. Right now there are workarounds, but they are clunky.

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checking alt text for image in New Quizzes If this question has been answered somewhere, please tell me where! I am accessibility checking content created by others. I am looking at a quiz created in New Quizzes. There is an image embe...	08-11-2022	324	0
Duplicate discussion and replies for ongoing, graded conversation I would like to be able to post a graded discussion, grade it, and then duplicate the discussion with all the original posts and replies. Ideally, the original posts/replies would not be editab...	02-17-2021	515	0
Conference breakout rooms statistics It appears that the statistics available for Canvas Conferences do not count interactions (speaking, chat, etc.) in breakout rooms. Is this true? Is there any way to see statistics from b...	02-17-2021	331	0
Deleting a group set: consequences If I have a group set and an assignment or graded discussion was linked to it, students submitted and were graded, and then I delete the group set, what if anything happens to the assignment/discussi...	06-11-2020	748	0
Canvas placing link text within screenreader CSS class I'm updating a very old Canvas course that provides help to faculty with Canvas. When I add links to Canvas guide pages, the Rich Content Editor is creating links with no link text. I'm far fro...	06-13-2019	1297	1

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