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Is there a way to get the list of courses sorted in descending order by course id from canvas? Hi all, I am trying to write a script that lets me associate a blueprint course with all new courses - but only new courses. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to find the courses ... |
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Display user navigation links in student mobile app? Hi all, We have a couple of LTIs that are available from the user navigation (under the user profile) and one that is also available from the global nav on the far left. I understand fr... |
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How to determine whether an unpublished course has been modified? Hi all, I am looking for a query that will allow me to tell how many courses for the upcoming fall term have been modified since these have been created through the SIS Upload process. Does anyone... |
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Support sought for customizing user display fields At Williams College, we are looking for ways to add personal pronouns and class year to the user profile and class roster display in Canvas. To this end, I have created a suggestion in the Ideas... |
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Wrestling with customizing displayed information on the Canvas user profile and class roster? Dear Colleagues, Our IT staff has been tasked with ensuring that a student's preferred name and pronouns are displayed throughout our campus information systems. We would like to extend this informa... |
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We would like the ability to populate a handful of custom fields via the SIS upload process and have these fields be displayed on the user profile and class roster. Specifically, the requests that we... |
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08-28-2020
05:28 AM
I have just discovered that Canvas is not including a pronoun field in the user SIS Upload csv! This is a great step forward! However Canvas is still validating the pronouns against a predefined list. I have made a request here on this thread to have this corrected: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Add-updating-Pronouns-field-to-the-Users-API-and-SIS-Imports-API/idc-p/399091/highlight/true#M34770 Thanks!
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08-28-2020
05:06 AM
Since the SIS Uploads are the single source of information about a student in many institutions, rather than throwing an error for pronouns that are not included on the Canvas 'list', could Canvas add the pronoun to the list automatically? Or better yet, hide the picklist altogether and accept what is sent via SIS Upload without validation against any predefined list? If an institution feels it needs a pre-defined list while others feel this is absolutely the wrong approach then this should be enforced at the SIS level and not within Canvas. The only thing Canvas should be enforcing here is the character length. Beyond that, an SIS-driven system gives institutions the flexibility to treat student and faculty pronouns consistently and in line with our institutional values across all our systems. Thanks in advance for your prompt attention to this important matter!
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09-18-2019
07:36 AM
I would encourage folks that are supportive of this approach to speak with your Canvas Customer Success Manager about your needs. Every voice helps!
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04-16-2019
06:45 AM
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I found it but not anywhere where I expected to find it! On the Android student app I needed to go to the hamburger dropdown menu where I expected to find it, go to the Settings Gear (which I thought would contain settings) and there it was! To quote a colleague: "Wow…that could be in a better place." cgaudreau Thanks for your help!
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04-16-2019
06:05 AM
Thanks! I appreciate the workaround but I can't figure out how to access the help in the navigation! I am not seeing a help icon or menu item on my Canvas Student app on Android. Where would I look?
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04-11-2019
06:20 AM
I am still looking for this ability in our mobile app. Does anyone have a workaround since Canvas put the feature suggestion into Cold Storage?
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12-13-2018
12:57 PM
Thank you! That is exactly what I needed!
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12-13-2018
08:26 AM
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Thanks! I was building a similar php script but I am always appreciative of the support of this community.
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12-13-2018
05:53 AM
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Hi all, I am trying to write a script that lets me associate a blueprint course with all new courses - but only new courses. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to find the courses by creation date or course id to allow me to identify the new ones? Thanks!
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10-10-2018
10:55 AM
I agree. The ability to search across all topics by user is an important part of some faculty workflows. Thanks!
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09-17-2018
06:01 AM
Thanks, Ryan! I have done so. Here is the link: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/12403-provide-user-navigation-menu-on-student-mobile-app I am happy to add you as a co-author if you'd like to refine the idea. Thanks again for your help!
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09-04-2018
07:17 AM
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Hi all, We have a couple of LTIs that are available from the user navigation (under the user profile) and one that is also available from the global nav on the far left. I understand from Canvas that I cannot add global navigation items to the mobile app as I do in the desktop model but I thought perhaps the user navigation LTIs would be displayed somewhere within the student app. Do these LTIs show up anywhere on mobile? Thanks in advance for any information you can provide!
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07-02-2018
05:29 AM
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Thanks so much! It turned out that there were only a handful of courses impacted. We simply wanted to have conversations with those faculty members before making changes that might impact how the courses appeared. Cheryl Handsaker Academic Application Developer / Project Manager Office of Information Technology, Williams College On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 2:29 AM, professorbeyrer@gmail.com <
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06-29-2018
02:31 PM
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Thanks very much for the response! We were trying to figure out which courses had been worked on by faculty so that we could exempt them from the application of our new Blueprint course. We were able to get this through the teachers' activity on the fall courses but couldn't rely only on the creation of content, since the settings pages were also modified in some cases (tracked only as content "home"). Your help is appreciated! Cheryl Handsaker Academic Application Developer / Project Manager Office of Information Technology, Williams College On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:08 AM, kona@richland.edu <instructure@jiveon.com>
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06-21-2018
05:30 AM
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Hi all, I am looking for a query that will allow me to tell how many courses for the upcoming fall term have been modified since these have been created through the SIS Upload process. Does anyone have a suggestion? Alternatively, is there a way to get a list of courses sorted by last activity or last access? This does not appear to be one of the ways to sort courses in the beta release. Thanks for any information you can provide!
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05-01-2018
04:41 AM
Thanks, John, for your thoughts. My idea above is for Canvas to implement this flexibility and manage any code dependencies. Perhaps limiting the size of the text displayed for the labels/ values or trimming them to a particular length will allow for ease of maintenance and visual testing. Best, Cheryl Handsaker Academic Application Developer / Project Manager Office of Information Technology, Williams College On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 5:07 PM, john.r.boekenoogen-1@ou.edu <
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03-14-2018
10:26 AM
At Williams College, we are looking for ways to add personal pronouns and class year to the user profile and class roster display in Canvas. To this end, I have created a suggestion in the Ideas area that would allow for the flexibility to display user information that is relevant to each institution. Perhaps you do not need to display class year at your school but are looking for a way to display the user's color preferences or Myers Briggs Type Indicator? This suggestion would meet your needs! If you agree that this sort of flexibility would be an improvement to the Canvas LMS, please consider: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/10822-display-institutionally-defined-fields-on-the-user-profile-and-class-roster I would be interested in learning about similar requests to add new user fields that may already exist in the Ideas forum that could be addressed if a more flexible approach was adopted by Instructure. Thanks very much for considering this request!
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03-07-2018
08:05 AM
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Dear Colleagues, Our IT staff has been tasked with ensuring that a student's preferred name and pronouns are displayed throughout our campus information systems. We would like to extend this information to the Canvas class roster and user profile as a part of this work. In the Ideas area, we have suggested an approach that provides flexibility around what might be displayed on the user profile and class roster that is tied to the SIS Import process. In this way, Canvas can be tailored to display user information based on what is institutionally relevant, such as pronouns or class year at Williams College and House affiliation at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. If you agree that this idea would be an improvement to the Canvas LMS, we'd appreciate your endorsement! https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/10822-display-institutionally-defined-fields-on-the-user-profile-and-class-roster Thanks very much for considering this request!
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02-09-2018
12:27 PM
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We would like the ability to populate a handful of custom fields via the SIS upload process and have these fields be displayed on the user profile and class roster. Specifically, the requests that we have received are to display class year and personal pronouns for each user. I suggest that institutions have up to five custom fields in the SIS Upload mapping where we could pass arbitrary values and a configuration page in the admin interface of Canvas where we could assign a label for each institutionally defined field or allow for the ability to pass a label/ value pair. These custom fields would be displayed on the user profile and, optionally, the class roster, with the defined label and the value from the feed. The ability to define a label independently from the value would allow each Canvas school to display the fields important to that institution, and with a label that makes sense in the local environment. There is an existing request for pronouns specifically here: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/5500-add-a-field-for-preferred-pronouns-to-the-profile-page and it is on the Instructure radar. This would be a great start! However, a more general implementation would allow institutions to customize labels and display additional custom information, such as the student class year.
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