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I would like to see a link on each Canvas page to the module that I have placed it in. Knowing the title of the module that each page is connected to would also be helpful when navigating by pa... |
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Bug Report: Multiple answers questions don't score properly I have made up several exams (quizzes) for my online classes. I tried using the Multiple answer type questions where I was looking for the student to pick two correct answers out of a list of 8... |
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04-27-2021
03:20 PM
It is possible that bread crumbs are not the way to navigate from pages to modules. Bread crumbs are fairly complex data trails which might be hard to program. Also, a page might be associated with more than one module which might create confusion. My suggestion is the one immediately above this comment. Why not add a single navigation button below the page with the module name, or if it would be more simple, simply the word MODULE. Every page is know to be within a module. How else would the previous button, and the next button at the bottom of the page work? There is plenty of room between these two buttons to place a third button and the coder would simply be using the code for the already placed buttons to create a third button located in the middle. I really believe that it would be simpler and simple often moves it up the todo list and gets it done. It sounds like people have been commenting on this for years. Could someone at Canvas check with a coder and see if this is simple or not. It is possible that a coder could have this done in less than an hour although Not being a coder myself, maybe not. An informed decision would be very helpful.
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04-23-2021
02:08 PM
I find that when I am in a module and navigate to one of its pages, it can be time consuming to get back to the module itself. If I have simply looked at the page, I can get quickly back to the module by using the back button on my browser. But if I edited the page, it is not easy to get directly back to the module. I can navigate to other pages in the module by using the "previous" or "next" buttons near the bottom of the page, but to return back to the module, I have to click back into modules and run through my whole list again and perhaps open the module, etc.. Since "previous" and "next" must know what module I am in to be able to direct me to the next item in the module itself, another button could know that as well. How about a third button that would take me immediately back to the module that I am working on and that the page is associated with. It could be near the bottom, between "previous" and "next" and say "Module", or list the name of the module. That button would easily take me back to the module to work on other pages or coordinate my edited page with the other resources in that module. When editing modules, it would save creators much time navigating out and back into modules.
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04-07-2021
03:47 PM
I have over 200 pages in a very complex content intensive course. It is very frustrating scanning through that list alphabetically!
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04-07-2021
03:45 PM
How is it that this comment from 2016, saying that this idea of folders in Pages is in a long term strategy, has not been implemented yet? This seems like it is being ignored, especially since there must be code already written to put files into folders. What not pages?
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03-15-2021
03:33 PM
Thanks for taking the time and effort to deal with my question.
Sorry, I may not have expressed myself clearly. I do know how to insert a link into any page. I really don't want to take the time to insert a link into all 200+ pages in my Canvas course. Those links would not be especially useful to students either.
I have a science class with many pages to edit and update from time to time. I was actually trying to find the "Feature Request" area to make this request. I though that I might get me started in this question area. I would like Canvas to automatically list, at the top of a page, the module name that it is associated with the page. Each page shows the title, Published, Edit, and 3 vertical dots near the top. I was hoping that the associated module name or an abbreviation could be listed on the page as well.
The Canvas software obviously knows this detail or it couldn't arrange the pages into modules. If that knowledge could be expressed at the top of any page, assignment, quiz, or whatever, that would be so very helpful. It also would be very helpful if that module name would be link to the module, so that it would be easy to navigate back to the module from the page.
When I need to update or edit a page, I locate that page through the modules that I have made, not through the "All Pages" area that takes forever to load and scan through the list with so many pages. When I finish updating a page, I want to navigate immediately back to the module, not click, scan, click my way back to the location of the module. Rather than clicking and scanning through all the modules to get back to where I was, wouldn't it be easy to just click a link on the page to return to the module. That name would also enhance the associations of pages and modules during development of the Canvas site, especially when it is complex.
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03-15-2021
12:01 PM
I would like to see a link on each Canvas page to the module that I have placed it in. Knowing the title of the module that each page is connected to would also be helpful when navigating by pages. I have so many pages, that it is very time consuming to search each page on the "All pages" list.
When I am editing my course, I am typically in a module and choose to look at and potentially edit various pages. When I do, and want to return to the module from which I just came. It takes numerous clicks to return, especially if I did edit the page. I can't just click a single link and return. If I didn't edit it is easier, I just use the back button on my browser. But, wouldn't it be very helpful if in the header of a page, the module that it was in was shown? It would help keep everything straight in your mind if you were just looking through pages and it would save quite a bit of time over the long haul if that listing were also a link back to the module. I know that many instructors may not have many pages which navigating can become times consuming.
As I update or edit pages I am often in and out of a module. Updating several pages take a useless amount of time to get back to the module and find it in the list. A simple link on a page for the module that it belongs to would be very helpful and add efficiency.
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01-21-2021
10:56 AM
I understand what you are saying, but there is a lack of logic when applied to online courses. Cross-listing courses makes sense because they are the same course. If the issue is time and place, that you can't merge two classes that meet at separate times and places, then that point becomes mute when two sections meet online (same space) and without a scheduled meeting time (class arranged). There is no time and place involved. Even with time and place involved, students can see and contact one another. There is no unreasonable amount of data shared among students in a class roster. IF this were a FERPA issue then our entire registration process would be in violation. We release information to students registered in the same course. It is minimal, but it is there. Merging courses is not any different than a student registering in any course. They will initially be in a course where they will see students that they didn't expect. The only difference is that there will be more students visible in merged sections. The number is students visible to one another is not the issue. I don't believe that this is a FERPA issue, it is essentially a safety issue. We can't keep students safe from one another if we don't know their issues, but we can help students keep themselves safe by giving clear descriptions of their class circumstances. It must be made clear to students that their section is being merged with other similar sections so that they can make the determinations needed to keep themselves safe.
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01-21-2021
10:26 AM
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I am in agreement with this comment. There is simply little logic behind these interpretations. FERPA does trump convenience, but let's apply FERPA logically. Any student in a course on campus could be identified as being in that course by someone simply seeing them in a classroom. Our student email systems within the whole college allows any student to message any other student. There is nothing isolating about students being in separate courses.
The entire conversation hinges on whether a student might be in danger or find offense in being in a course with another student that would be dangerous to them. When a student enrolls in a course, they don't know who will be in that course when the course finally meets. If they fear associating with another student, then they might look at the course roster after they have registered. The student doesn't have control over the registration process, nor would we alter the entire process for a single student. The essential element is does the student have the ability to know who is in the class and can they freely decide to change their situation if they find a problem. This interpretation is about students having the knowledge and the ability to keep themselves safe.
Just as students won't know who is registered in a course before or after they register, if courses were merged, there is no way that they would know. Just as a student would solve the issue by looking at a roster of their registered class and make a decision for their own safety, they can look at the roster for a merged set of sections and make a decision as to their safety. It is the exact same process. How do we extend danger to merged sections but not use the same logic for a student simply registering for a single course? Something is not logical here. I believe that the only issue for the student would be awareness. If the college or instructor clearly states that several sections will be or are merged and that you could be associating with students in other sections of the same course, you have now given the student the same awareness that they would have had from simply registering for any single section of a course.
Please someone shoot down my logic. Have I missed something? It seems like we are trying to use FERPA to eliminate the fraction of a gram of danger for a student. I am committed to that reduction as well, but it is not possible to do that in the real world. The answer is to give students the knowledge that they need to keep themselves safe. The solution to this issue is to make students aware and if they find an issue to help them resolve that problem by every means possible.
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04-21-2020
08:02 PM
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Thank you both for responding. I obviously misunderstood the way it is graded. I didn't realize that a wrong answer was subtracted. I was trying to get two independent questions operating in one question. When the student has one response correct and one incorrect, I thought that each would earn or not earn a point, not that one answer would penalize the other correct answer. I was assuming that right answers were worth 1 and incorrect answers were worth 0 not -1. I am using the classic quizzing. I guess I wish that I could customize that feature. I could get a lot more questions into a test with less work if I could put two independent questions in one.
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04-21-2020
12:26 PM
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I have made up several exams (quizzes) for my online classes. I tried using the Multiple answer type questions where I was looking for the student to pick two correct answers out of a list of 8. If the student picks only one answer instead of 2 it corrects that response properly. But, if the student picks two answers and one is right and one is wrong, it may report 0 points or it may report 1 point. It is not consistent. It marks the responses properly. I see a green or a red indicator next to the student's responses, but it doesn't score the question correctly. The student may have one green and one red, one choice correct and one choice wrong, but the score is 0 points!! I have to manually go back through all the students and find this question and correct it manually on all of their exams. My hypothesis is that out of the two correct answers that I indicated if the first answer is wrong and the second one is right, then it doesn't score the second correct answer. When it goes to assign points, it doesn't assign any points even if the second answer is correct. Just a guess. The marking choices as right or wrong is fine, but the scoring is messed up.
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04-20-2017
08:13 PM
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This is not an issue that I have followed previously. We are just implementing Canvas at our college as we speak. It seems from all of this conversation that Canvas is working on implementing the ideas, but very few who are contributing are aware of the process. The real issue is that there is a lack of communication and of the actual implementation process. It would be smart for Canvas to describe what happens to all the ideas, the process of how ideas are chosen, and to give some type of time frame for implementing ideas. If contributors of ideas knew what to expect from submitting ideas, they might be more patient. Explaining the process in a blog like this that few will read is not truly effective. There should be explanations and descriptions on the submittal page so that everyone is on board and can be patient. Also, there must be some coders among the educational community that might be amenable to donating some of their services to enrich the entire educational community. Even if they could not complete the entire concept, any pre-coding services should certainly help move things along.
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