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Sharmaine Regisford
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Title:
Sr. Instructional Designer
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418
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Edtech Educator!
Back in 2012 Canvas was my near-perfect LMS and since then more features and utility have been added. I'm an avid Canvas user as both an instructional designer and instructor at a higher ed institution.
Most Liked Posts
Howdy! A friend showed me the details tag the other day and now I cannot stop telling others about it.It's an HTML5 tag so it works in mobile too! See more at The Details disclosure element.Spoile...
I'd like to give a shout-out to @aphelpscoco and 60980756 for helping me to implement a very nifty :smileycool: way to display announcements through a feed widget on the homepage:I followe...
I am also an Instructional Designer who has been using elements from the Style guide to spruce up and organize Canvas pages:ButtonsBordersIcons & colorsTablesEnchanceable content - Tabs, ModalsEle...
Hi Emily,We also like the Front page announcements. Here's one of our front page designs that has a larger lesson navigation area than yours but the idea is the same. Each mini card leads to the s...
Is there a setting or CSS hack to have all replies in a discussion collapsed when a user enters the page so they can focus on the individual top-level threads?I found an old comment in the feature req...
Most Recent Posts
Hi @reenie_arnold
It sounds like your institution's Canvas may have some conflicting CSS/JS or another feature that is turned on (Discussion checkpoints maybe) if you are seeing an edit date ...
Hello @ZainabFatima,
Are you referring to your Canvas Dashboard (Recent Activity view) or the All Courses list? Here are a few user guides, if you are an instructor:
How do I use the Dashboard as ...
Hi @reenie_arnold,
Are you confirming the issue is present by looking at student view? For example, here's my student view for an announcement from last week 🤓:
Student view of announc...
Hi @nogueim , @chriscas , @mzimmerman , @GideonWilliams ( I tagged everyone so you'd be informed for my reply),
I just tested out the Details tag and it is working. You have to be...
Hi @james_peth ,
Yes, I do have admin access to my Canvas subaccount; point your Canvas admins/IT to this thread. And I have made those CSS updates because we tried out Discussions Redesign since ...
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