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I would love to hear the call as well! And I'd love to hear if anyone has suggestions about assigning terms and any other ways to make IC-Clever-Canvas work more smoothly. -Emily ... View more

Perfect, thank you!! -Emily ... View more

Hi Dave! I'm eager to hear a discussion on this as well! I work for a K-12 school district and we have many sub-accounts (and sub-sub-accounts, etc.) set up as well, and largely for reasons that are similar to Leslie's. Initially, we wanted to be able to pull meaningful reports from the account-level, as well as to easily create different roles/permissions for different needs, and to house our SIS generated courses in a different location than our professional development and mandatory staff courses. I've also appreciated having a production container for testing where only my own test courses are involved (we ran into an LTI that wasn't written to perform as usual in test and beta environments, so it was nice to have a small sandbox.) Another reason that we use sub-accounts is for branding. Each of our schools are branded differently, and we also have different branding styles for other accounts for departments, etc. Our teachers also use manually-created Canvas pages as their "homepages" or webpages with contact information, so we have those grouped by school and type in sub-accounts as well. Another nice things is that when running api calls, it's really easy to differentiate between groups of courses because each of the sub-accounts have their own ID, so it's a swift way of changing settings on all PD courses, for example. I'd say the only con for me so far is just the time it takes to organize them, and keep them organized, and right now, re-branding them based on new logos.  -Emily ... View more

Hi Jacob! I'm getting a Jive 404 message when I click on the link to the snippet and I'm having a hard time finding it on GitHub. Do you happen to have a direct link to the script on Canvas' GitHub that you could share? Thanks so much! -Emily ... View more

Hi Adrienne! I work at a K-12 district and we've seen this issue as well. It was intermittent at first but seems to be occuring to submissions from whole classes at this point (but not all classes.) Here's what I've heard from a couple of cases with Canvas Support: Hi Emily! This behavior of the submission not previewing is related to an open engineering ticket. The root cause is currently being investigated by our Engineering team. I have attached this case to the tracker for this behavior so when it has been marked resolved you will be emailed to make you aware. Unfortunately, the only current workaround is to set up the assignment as a File Upload submission type, and not use the Google LTI tool for submissions. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause! Please let us know if you have any questions and have a great day! Canvas Support support@instructure.com Canvas questions? Check out User Guides, Community Forum and Feature Requests at https://community.canvaslms.com And Hey there! This is a follow-up to our call earlier. In talking to my coworker we were able to track down related reports with Google LTI submission issues. I will be sure to attach your case to the tracker so that you will be notified of when it is fixed. The issue itself is how Canvas converts the documents, it turns the doc or docx selected on the cloud assignment into a pdf which is breaking the preview. As a workaround you can download the file from speedgrader change the extension from .pdf to .docx and preview it on your end. If you come across this issue again or have any additional questions, please don't hesitate to give us a call or email us at support@instructure.com . Let me know if you have additional questions, Ryan Nelson L1 Canvas Support ... View more

Hi there! I've been trying to figure out how to make an embedded Google Doc responsive to mobile devices in both the Canvas app and mobile browsers, and I wondered if anyone else shares this experience? I feel like there is probably an obvious answer that I'm missing and wanted to share and explore. (By the way, does anyone know if Design Tools templates are responsive?) I've been testing a lot of ideas but haven't succeeded in achieving what I want just yet. The document I'm using to test is a giant chart (table-based, unfortunately) created as a Google Doc that has a list of PD opportunities in our district. Some of our departments are using it to collaboratively update information re: PD opportunities and they've put a lot of work into it...so I'm trying to find the best way to get this document to render well on mobile devices because we will have a public link to it on our website. The best embedded behavior I've found so far has just been the width="100%" with preview mode and the native Google embed code. On my laptop (Mac 10.11.6, Chrome) the document will resize for smaller windows within Canvas (which is important for viewing on our 11" Chromebook screens.) However, on the mobile devices I'm testing with (iPhone 6s, iOS 9.3.5, Chrome/Safari and ZenPhone, Android 5.0 Chrome/ASUS), the document does not resize when embedded, and the best option I've found is just to have with a link to the doc in preview mode, which works...but adds an extra step for users and designers. This is one of the other things I tried, with various padding percentages, and it may be totally off...I'm not entirely proficient with CSS and HTML. (Open to any suggestions!) I feel like this worked less well than just using width="100%" bc it just made the iFrame responsive and not the Google Doc: <--! <style type="text/css">     body {     margin:0;     padding0;     background:#000;     }     .panorama {     position:relative;     padding-bottom:90%;     height:0;     overflow:hidden;     }     .panorama iframe {     position:absolute;     top:0;     left:0;     width:100%;     height:100%;     } </style> <div class="panorama"> <iframe src=" https://docs.google.com/.../pub?embedded=true&pageview=1 " width="100%" height="1000" frameborder="0" style="border:0"></iframe> </div> --> Has anyone struggled (and maybe achieved victory?) with embedding responsive, mobile-friendly Google Docs in Canvas? -Emily ... View more

That's interesting, Neal! Thank you for the info! -Emily ... View more

 @jacob_standish ​ thanks so much for your information in this session! It got me thinking about other uses and I was wondering if you or anyone else has had experience using this process for cross-listing? I am thinking aloud here but trying to imagine a way to use the cross-listing and de-crosslisting API calls with Google apps scripts to create a form for teachers to use to select courses to cross-list. Would that be a good use case or are there other, better solutions? I've been brainstorming ways to help our teachers with this process and wanted to reach out and see if anyone has some good advice or experience to share? Thanks so much! -Emily ... View more