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Hi Chris, you are very thorough as always! Somehow View History is not available to me, perhaps my browser security is blocking it. Using the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine I saw that sorting by likes was in the documentation on Jan 1 2023, and by end of February it was gone. The feature could have been removed before the documentation was changed, sometime it takes a while esp. if it was not an intended change. Checking Nov and Dec updates, nothing particularly affects discussions. There is a change in feedback placement in Grades, and liking might be considered feedback, but that's a stretch. I hope the documentation team gets back to you to with information about this mystery.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎05-15-2023

I just spoke with Canvas Support about a similar situation with audio files, and they say this compressed download problem has been fixed, probably within the last 24 hours. It is only fixed for newly uploaded files, after fix was deployed. Just checked with a file uploaded yesterday and it downloaded at full size. Hope that will be true for all media files.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎05-06-2023

Hi @CynthiaEdwards1 , it may be because you have different settings for the two shows, and you have maximize rather than ensure fit for scaling; you want ensure fit to reduce size of large fonts to fit the slide. I think the setting will apply to all slides in the presentation. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-the-page-layout-49030c0f-9cd9-4f92-a894-605bc0671d10 and https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-the-size-of-your-slides-040a811c-be43-40b9-8d04-0de5ed79987e

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎05-04-2023

More filters, great idea @KweliSnowden ! In Refine Filters, I would like to see a filter for course status to show open courses only, based on start and end dates (section, course or term whichever is in control). Currently you can see deleted, published status and concluded with or without activity. If a course hasn't started yet, or is finished, then statistics about activity are not meaningful, . Some reports work best on prior semesters where all courses are concluded. Definitely I am enjoying playing with these reports! There's a lot of data to mine here.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎04-29-2023

Thanks @DavidSchlater for starting this discussion. We were trying to figure out if assignment participation numbers included graded discussions, so I picked one class to study.. The Interactions by Category report said there were 94 discussion participations, but in the class I found 104 posts (in 3 graded discussions), all made before March 20 so should all be included in the report. Only one of the posts was from the teacher, so that means 103 student posts. Not sure why only 94 shows up in Admin Analytics. There were 1716 assignment participations, that will be harder to determine accuracy, it might include resubmissions for example and not sure if it includes graded discussions. I plan to download the gradebook and do some counting. Maybe somebody at Instructure knows if Assignment participations include Discussions, @carlycurran? Is that information somewhere in the documentation? Thank you!

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎04-29-2023

That's a good question, @carlycurran. I can't say, it might have more weight coming from the teacher, but other early warning systems are used by specific people, like advisors, program managers or instructors.. This is a little more awkward because only Canvas Admins have access to these analytics and would be the ones to trigger notifications. If this could become a feature, there would need to be some discussion about it.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎04-23-2023

If two people worked on it at the same time you would see some anomalies in the logs, and an admin could see the 2 IP addresses in use during the quiz. If you were suspicious you could ask your admin to check. Note that a student could give their login information and have someone else take the entire quiz, so I don't think this resume function is more of a chance to cheat. It really helps students who have an issue with their computer.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎04-22-2023

Hi Betty, welcome to Canvas! I imagine if you are a student that you should log into your school's Canvas account rather than this global Canvas community to make your orientation post. Your school's Canvas will have .instructure.com in the website URL, and will show the class you are taking if it's started. This Canvas community is a great resource with Canvas student guides and this forum where Canvas users help each other with questions.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎04-22-2023

Hi @AlexiUM, students can leave and then later resume a quiz as long as the time limit allows. How do I resume a quiz that I already started taki... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎04-19-2023

Hi @DavidSchlater , I see what you mean, in Refine filters even if you define Course or Student with Activity Criteria as 0 page views etc, it doesn't show feature data for courses with 0 activity. Feature Use in Courses with Activity will not show features in courses with no activity. I'm not sure if this is a bug or should be a feature request. We'd like to have this work too because all of our courses are supposed to have a syllabus even if students don't use the course - some are mistakenly left unpublished and we'd like to find those.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎04-14-2023

In the Course Status Report and other places, it appears Course dates are used, which doesn't indicate when a course is open at our school. Could course "start at" and "conclude at" dates use section dates if they are not blank, and only use course or term dates if there are no section dates? Or give us a choice. I like that the course status report indicates cross-listings, and seeing the access controlling section dates would be important to us and others that use section dates for short courses.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎04-14-2023

Love this idea. Notification if grades are below average, or who have a certain number of missed assignments. As long as we can filter out courses that don't have assignments; we have face to face courses with Canvas shells with only supplemental material.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎04-12-2023

Hi @cheryl_zachry, we are not experiencing this error in course level New Analytics. You might want to call or chat with Canvas support.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎04-11-2023

Hi, Love the new Admin Analytics! Thank you! In the Course Status Report and other places, it appears Course dates are used. Should I create an Idea to have the course "start at" and "conclude at" dates use section dates if they are not blank, and only use course or term dates if there are no section dates? Maybe I am wrong, if so I'd appreciate knowing where the dates come from. We have a problem with courses that haven't yet opened looking like they are. I like that the course status report indicates cross-listings, and having section dates would be very helpful to us.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎03-25-2023

If you export the entire course, it includes the question banks. One can import the IMSCC package with Select Specific Content chosen, then choose to import only question banks. But, you may not wish to include the entire course just to share the question banks, so it's not ideal. FYI Question Banks are in the non_cc_assessments folder of the exported course file, each one containing objectbank. I am only including this information because it took me a while to figure it out. There's not a lot of information about QTI and Canvas IMSCC formats out there and someone might work out a way to include only the questions banks in an edited file; noting the images are in a different folder and that would have to be included too. Right now you can't export new quizzes at all. It's on the Product Roadmap for July 2023 but doesn't mention item banks, just quizzes. I hope the Instructure engineers are working on exporting both or either, and choosing all or some. Thank you Instructure for listening!

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎03-20-2023

Hi @AkosFarago , now that Screencast-O-Matic is re-branded as ScreenPal, and ScreenPal says we'll need to download it to get future updates, how do we do that? What exactly do we uninstall to get the most current version? I too ran the downloader when choosing to do a screen recording in Studio, but my Screen Recorder Laucher is still v.2.9.3vo and dated 8/2022. Does that automatically use the right Screencast o'Matic or ScreenPal version? Thanks for your help. We'll want to do this on school computers, those managed by our ITS, as well.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎03-15-2023

Hi @caleb_koerperic , At our school we use the course end date in Settings for the last day of class, but our sections have an end date 2 weeks later to allow for grading, and for students to see their grades. We check the option that students can only participate during the section dates. That way courses don't conclude until the section ends. Maybe other schools do it differently, but being able to edit after the last day of class seems to be imperative for most of us. I don't know if you have editing rights on section dates, but maybe the Canvas admin can consider this setup.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎03-08-2023

Hi @ircroft , the documentation you linked to is about Announcements rather than discussions. Other teachers are remembering that sort by likes was available in discussions, but it doesn't appear to be there any longer. The documentation about liking in discussions doesn't show the choice for sorting by likes. How do I allow students to like replies in a discussion - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎12-21-2022

Good news! I was notified early this morning that a fix has been deployed. So, teachers and students should now be able to reply to inbox messages up until the section end date. Nice present for the holidays! Thank you, Instructure support and engineers.

Nancy_Webb_CCSF · ‎12-19-2022

FYI I heard from support that this issue has been given to an engineer but there is no time frame for resolution. Perhaps as semester ends, there will be more complaints.

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Admin Analytics should use Section dates In the Course Status Report and other places, it appears Course dates are used, which doesn't indicate when a course is open at our school. Could course "start at" and "conclude at" dates use se...	04-14-2023	229	5
Inbox won't allow reply through Section end date Although students and teachers can write a new Conversation message between the course end date and the section end date, they cannot reply to a message. I believe this problem started when thi...	11-08-2022	1062	4
[New Analytics] New quiz participation should show in user Page Views We use student reports to check for participation, important for our accounting of student work at the beginning and throughout the semester. Participation and not just viewing is required...	06-15-2022	392	0
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[New Quizzes] New quiz participation should show in Access Reports, Pages and New Analytics We use student reports to check for participation, important for our accounting of student work at the beginning and throughout the semester. Participation and not just viewing is required...	06-14-2022	474	0
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