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sibley · ‎01-21-2019

Hi We built a phyton script to inject and retrieve groups from Canvas. If you send me an email at jim.sibley@ubc.ca I can get you in touch with my help desk administrator that built and uses the script. jim

sibley · ‎11-05-2018

So we should abandon instructors of large courses...and just make tools that work for small courses Perhaps some other company should build an LMS for large course if Instructure isn't interested jim

sibley · ‎11-05-2018

Hi I have some instructors in large courses doing an interesting workaround They make FILES area visible to students and use published/unpublished put folder in student view. Then they have the ability nest folders of content. [caution rant ahead] It has been hard to watch how much my instructors in large courses are suffering with Canvas...the instructors with small single section courses - think it is great - but in the large courses (say a 1000 students) the gradebook, speedgrader, groups, scorm is all done so poorly that they have had to stop doing things that were EASILY possible with Blackboard. And in my limited interaction with Instructure, they seem fairly disinterested in providing tools that work for big courses. For example - The is an unresolved SCORM vulnerability where students can share SCORM object URL's outside Canvas and take each other's tests.... there is lots more....one faculty member even joked maybe it is time to retire. [rant end]

sibley · ‎10-16-2018

Thanks for this.... it really says faculty in large courses should expect to suffer....I just get a little irritated that it is Instructure choice and not the faculty members choice if individual messages are sent faculty should be empowered to make this decision!!

sibley · ‎10-15-2018

When an instructor sends an email to a large class, they get individual emails in sent box. There is a control to not send individual emails, but it is greyed out for big courses. In one of our courses (900 students), every time an email is sent to class instructor get 900 emails in the sent box. Since sent box has no threading or search capabilities, other recently sent emails are buried miles down in sent box. There is no practical way for instructors to revisit a sent email when it is buried so far down. Am I missing something? Have other people figured out a work around? Thanks jim

sibley · ‎10-02-2018

User have agitated for this feature for a long time....I would not hold out much hope as Instructure seems philosophical opposed to idea jim

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