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sheads · ‎10-31-2022

I can see how "Try Again" is good language for K-6 users. Maybe it can be wrapped into the "Canvas Elementary Theming" option, and something like "New Attempt" be used for the standard theming? (though this might necessitate a separate set of screen shots for the student "how-to" guides)

sheads · ‎09-26-2022

Problem statement: When using/following directions in the default emails and settings in Catalog, a student who enrolls in a course that has a start date in the future (in the Canvas Course Settings) will eventual arrive at their Catalog Student Dashboard and not be able to "click through" via the "Go To Course" link for the course listing to access the course. Proposed solution: Would be possible to use the "Restrict students from viewing course before term start date" option in addition to the Course Start Date in Canvas to determine whether the "Go To Course" link is available or not for the Course Listing in the Catalog Student Dashboard? We have use cases where we want students to be able to access the course via the Catalog Student Dashboard to view materials before the course starts. We are using the course start date specifically in order to get the date to populate on the Catalog Listings where "Self-Paced" would otherwise appear. User role(s): admin

sheads · ‎08-10-2022

I agree. I have posted a similar idea elsewhere in the Idea forum (link below), specifically for links to public courses that we use in our blueprints/course templates to link to static-but-updatable resources elsewhere in Canvas: Allowlist for Link Validator Tool

sheads · ‎01-25-2022

Can Canvas add an informational or warning pop-up when clicking "Save" for a new announcement in an unpublished course notifying the creator that the announcement cannot be seen until the course is published? I've noticed a few instructors at our institution creating announcements in unpublished courses who seem unaware that their students cannot see and will not receive any notification of the announcement. Something similar to the "View Due Date Warning" that is displayed when not assigning an assignment to everyone in the class, as seen here would probably do the trick!

sheads · ‎06-09-2021

Alternatively, having the link validator tool check for whether the links are in publicly or institutionally visible courses would work, and then not passing errors for links that direct to courses that have a wider level of visibility? Or displaying whitelisted URLs that appear upon scan in an additional area (marked "whitelisted URLs" of the Course Link Validator scan results, that includes the original error/warning message that would have appeared)?

sheads · ‎06-09-2021

We use some publicly or institutionally visible Canvas courses to host content so that it can be easily linked and available in our Syllabi and course resources pages. Unfortunately, links within a course that direct to other Canvas courses (even ones that are institutionally or publicly visible), show up as "Links to other courses in this resource may not be accessible by the students in this course" in the Course Link Validator scan results. Rather than train our faculty to ignore the errors that we expect them to see in every course (6 total because of our use of blueprints), would it be possible to have an allowlist for the Link Validator tool that would prevent an error from appearing for certain specific links in the allowlist?

sheads · ‎01-25-2021

I'd like to agree with the resounding concern elsewhere in these comments about the new "zeroes" gradebook feature and the call for actively notifying instructors within the gradebook page when they have it turned on. Since I heard about the feature coming, I've been fretting with my team about how we're going to manage its use and communicate to faculty about some of the inherent dangers of turning it on if they don't fully understand the consequences.

sheads · ‎02-18-2019

Unfortunately, no - the enrollment state would work for changing the student enrollments back to active so they appear in the gradebook, but we do want the enrollments to conclude at the end of the semester, not be active. I'd just like to be able to change the gradebook setting for the instructor(s) of every course so that the "Show Concluded Enrollments" option is on by default, so instructors don't go to their gradebook and see the gradebook empty of active enrollments until they figure out the "Show Concluded" option in the settings.

sheads · ‎02-08-2019

When I check my Canvas Data Portal request tables, I find a POST call to /api/v1/courses/xxxx/gradebook_settings for any time a user changes a gradebook setting, such as "Show Concluded Enrollments." I'd love to be able to use a script to update all instructors' gradebook settings to show concluded enrollments at the end of semesters (or better yet, if Canvas had an account setting that made it "on" by default, but that's not a discussion for this group). I'm by no means an API expert, but it seems to me that, if I knew the right call to make with the user_id of the instructor(s) and the course_id, I could edit the gradebook_settings via API (and potentially write a script that updates all of the settings around the end of the semester when I get floods of emails about "where did my students go in the gradebook?"). Can anyone offer any insights?

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[Catalog] Student Dashboard - "Go To Course" link greyed out Problem statement: When using/following directions in the default emails and settings in Catalog, a student who enrolls in a course that has a start date in the future (in the Canvas Course Settings...	09-26-2022	245
[Announcements] Creating new announcement in unpublished course? Notify that students can't yet see them! Can Canvas add an informational or warning pop-up when clicking "Save" for a new announcement in an unpublished course notifying the creator that the announcement cannot be seen until the course is p...	01-25-2022	380
[Course Settings] Allowlist for Link Validator Tool We use some publicly or institutionally visible Canvas courses to host content so that it can be easily linked and available in our Syllabi and course resources pages. Unfortunately, links with...	06-09-2021	797
undocumented API for gradebook_settings? When I check my Canvas Data Portal request tables, I find a POST call to /api/v1/courses/xxxx/gradebook_settings for any time a user changes a gradebook setting, such as "Show Concluded Enrollme...	02-08-2019	1083

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