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I would of course would love to see more on the list but I'm pretty happy to see what's made the cut. I'm excited to see some of our top requested items finally get worked into production!

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@KristinL I was recently asked about the sunsetting of Cloud Assignments. I wasn't able to find a more recent update on this...do we know anything more about the parity work? I seem to recall the Collaborations feature was a missing piece in the newer LTI.

audra_agnelly · ‎05-17-2023

We have not enabled submissions redesign specifically because of the organization of the submission options. The second tile is Studio, which we don't use with students and have disabled elsewhere in the UI. We really need our primary submission tool, Google Drive, to be in the forefront rather than under "More". We would turn on the redesign if that update was made.

audra_agnelly · ‎05-16-2023

Problem statement: In both Course Analytics and the new Admin Analytics, average grade data is not based on grading periods. For institutions that use grading periods, the grade data is therefore useless to users. Ex. if an admin uses the admin analytics tool to find student averages that are <60% in March (3rd quarter), the analytics dashboard can't provide accurate information. Further, there may be the false assumption that they are viewing 3rd quarter data rather than an aggregate calculation of all assignment scores since the start of school. Proposed solution: In analytics tools, default to the current grading period or provide a filter to select a grading period. When selected, any grade average data is for the selected grading period. User role(s): admin

audra_agnelly · ‎05-15-2023

If an infographic is embedded on a Canvas page, you would assume the student has viewed the infographic if the page is listed in the analytics. If both the page view and the image view are 2 line items in the analytics, it becomes cluttered. If the infographic is only hyperlinked, it should be counted in analytics since students intentionally open the link, but if images are embedded on the page, only the page view should count or we should at least have a filter to exclude image files from the page view count. Images on pages aren't necessarily decorative. They may be part of the content, but students are still viewing the page with the text and the image as a whole. Counting the image and the page it's on double counts information and does not provide meaningful analytics.

audra_agnelly · ‎04-25-2023

@mhemenway2 this feature is coming this summer. Canvas released it in December but had to turn it off due to a bug in course copying. the most recent update about this feature has been posted here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/The-Product-Blog/Re-enablement-of-the-Rich-Content-Editor-RCE-in-New-Quizzes/ba-p/563434

audra_agnelly · ‎04-25-2023

We don't use Badgr since we are K-12 and it isn't COPPA compliant, but I've found it to be a clunky interface within Canvas when testing in some staff courses. I'd love to see some smoother integration of badges all within Canvas and the ability to use badging with our under 13's.

audra_agnelly · ‎04-14-2023

I was finally able to get into beta and have 2 pieces of feedback on the workflow: I found it to be a bit of a nuisance that the next/previous student buttons will advance to a non-submission (blank screen) where those buttons are not available. I fumbled a second before realizing I needed to click the arrows in the top right of Speedgrader. It's a disjointed workflow to have to switch where you are clicking to advance to the next quiz. If the teacher sorts by submissions you don't run into this, but not everyone is going to have that setting selected. It would be a better flow if the previous/next buttons in the grade by question UI skipped to the next submitted quiz. I am also concerned that teachers are going to grade responses and neglect to click the update button. In the right panel in speedGrader you do not need to select Update when you enter an overall score, it is autosaved when you advance to the next student, so requiring Update in one area and not another is confusing. You do need to Update when you enter a SpeedGrader comment and get a warning message when you don't do that. I think we'll run into far fewer distraught instructors that none of their grades were saved if there is either a similar warning to update or an auto save function when the teacher advances to the next student.

audra_agnelly · ‎04-13-2023

Is something happening with New Quizzes in Beta? I have been trying to test the grade by question feature for the past several days I am experiencing a combination of different issues after I click Build. The past few days the build screen was taking a long time to load and eventually timing out (504 error). Beta can be slow sometimes so I waited to try later in the day/next day and still ran into the issue. This morning I opened an existing quiz and saw that alert message "Sorry, the request was unauthorized." and the page is just stuck on the Build screen with the loading message and progress circle; the questions/editor never loads. I also tried to create a brand new quiz in Beta. After clicking Build I get the "I'm sorry something went wrong. If you are the application owner check the logs." message. Have others been able to get to the New Quizzes build screen in Beta this week?

audra_agnelly · ‎03-30-2023

One question I sometimes get asked by my school admins is how they can monitor teacher activity at their school, primarily around usage of the gradebook. The course screen seems focused on student activity (which can certainly reflect what the teacher is doing), but I'm not seeing that it shows if a teacher has gone into their course on a regular basis to post assignments and grades. This is a question I received recently from one of our principals: "is there a way for Canvas to notify administrators if a teacher does not input grades in their gradebooks let's say every 2 to 3 weeks? We are just curious because it will help us with follow-up with specific teachers instead of us having to go into each teacher's gradebook for every subject." It'd be great if we could get that info from the new analytics tool or one of the admin reports.

audra_agnelly · ‎03-30-2023

Thanks for the update @TamasBalogh. I want to lift up the fact that K12 institutions give high school finals into June. The last RCE release coincided with our January midterm schedule and caused disruptions on those exams, so we want to avoid another repeat of that.

audra_agnelly · ‎03-30-2023

I posted in the deploy notes but no one responded. Average course grade, Courses With Average Scores Below 70, Student Overall Average are pulling an average of all assignments since the start of the year. K12 clients use grading periods and we need average grade data that reflects the current grading period, an all-year average as a data point is not meaningful to my admins. It's also misleading as users won't understand that the averages they are seeing are not the current quarter. I have brought this up in the New Analytics user group as well, the course average there is also a running average since the start of the year rather than the current marking period. A filter to toggle grading periods like you can in the gradebook is needed.

audra_agnelly · ‎03-23-2023

@AkosFarago , just checking: caption edits will autosave whenever the user changes focus to a different element on the page? So, users using Tab or other keyboard shortcuts to navigate don't need to physically "click" somewhere for their edits to save, correct?

audra_agnelly · ‎03-10-2023

I was working with a staff member today who was encountering this issue. We are finding that, as you described, the file ID is updated when the file is replaced. I am seeing that the file IDs dynamically update in links on Canvas pages within the course where the teacher had linked/embedded those files. This does seem to be occurring haphazardly though, she indicated that she discovered the issue because some page links to files were broken after she'd replaced the file with a newer version. Unfortunately, this course is a staff resource set to institutional visibility and direct links to the files in the Canvas course are posted elsewhere (outside of Canvas) for staff to access. Those outside postings do not dynamically update creating a lot of maintenance issues anytime these documents are updated. Did you ever find out more information about this issue? Did you ever open a support ticket?

audra_agnelly · ‎02-22-2023

+1 to all the points @JamesSekcienski laid out. Discussion around an idea really flushes out the use cases around the idea and in the old posts you could see from the volumes of comments how desired a certain feature was by members of the community. Gathering those use cases is an important tool as your product teams evaluate and prioritize tasks. By limiting commentary to when themes are open for discussion, we in the community miss out on opportunities to post comments on ideas when they are at the forefront of our minds. Over the years, I have generally commented on ideas when I have been searching the Community to an answer to a specific question. If commenting is only open during voting there are key points and contributions that won't necessarily be on my mind (and presumably others) during that window. Further, I've seen many posted ideas over the years that stemmed from misunderstandings of what functionality was already available in Canvas. In some cases, as James mentioned, there were workarounds suggested by community members. In other cases the OP just didn't know how to do something in Canvas and community members were able to provide guidance on how to do that. Those comments remained on record and could be read by anyone who has the same question in the future.

audra_agnelly · ‎02-22-2023

Problem statement: When uploading content to Commons, you are required to attach an image to your content. With Unsplash (and prior to that Flickr), it was easy to search for an image and attach it to your resources. Now that Unsplash is unavailable, I need to poke around my computer to locate an appropriate image for the card, something I may or may not have readily available at the time. This disrupts the workflow to the main task at hand: uploading a resource to Commons, and the addition of the image on the Commons card is nice but not really a necessary component. Proposed solution: I suggest that the image field on the Commons card gets changed to an unrequired field. Course card images are not required on Canvas courses, so there's no reason they should be required in Commons. Like a Canvas course, instructors should be able to select a background color in lieu of an image. User role(s): admin,instructor

audra_agnelly · ‎02-22-2023

@AkosFarago Is there a link or an embed code to your video that I can use in my staff update?

audra_agnelly · ‎02-15-2023

Everything about this is so utterly confusing. This Course shows nothing unless you share a bank to a course, but I can't figure out anything you gain by doing so. I have a teacher who has built several hundred item banks in a sandbox (1 bank per question x ~10 questions per quiz x 20+ quizzes). They need to share these quizzes with their collogues and I have no good options for them. If he goes through 100s of banks and shares them to the course, the banks don't copy when we import. If a bank is linked to a course it should remain linked in future copies/imports of the course. Am I missing something here? He can share each item bank with his colleagues, but with 100s of banks, that's an incredible amount of work and ridiculously inefficient. We can put all the quizzes into a module and share to commons. The imported questions are linked to the original item banks but the teachers that import those quizzes can't see the original item banks to review the questions. They can preview as a student but this just pulls the identified number of random questions (usually 1) from the bank. What is the recommended course for teachers to share an entire course's worth of question banks with colleagues? The last post here was in September, are item banks being worked on? I see nothing in the current quarter's roadmap. @MPioRoda ???

audra_agnelly · ‎01-30-2023

The workflow for item banks in new quizzes is not intuitive to me at all. I'm working with an instructor who has created some item banks that they want to share with colleagues. Can anyone explain to me how the item bank workflow functions: There is an Item Bank menu that says "This Course" and "All Courses". If I open a course, select Item Banks and +Item Bank the new bank does not appear under "this Course" it appear under "All courses". Is this the intended behavior? I would expect Item Banks to appear within a course when I create the item bank in a course. How does an instructor get an item bank into the "This Course" level? (A secondary question from my role as an admin, How do you find item banks under "all courses"? As an admin, unless I've tracked the title of a bank I've created, I can't find it amongst the 100s of item banks that show up for me under "all course". Is there any way to search by owner/creator??) A desired behavior would be to share a course with a colleague (through Commons or from a sandbox) and share all the item banks in that course. Is there functionality in place to share all the item banks in a course through a course import or other sharing tool?

audra_agnelly · ‎01-25-2023

@JDPearson was this rolled back? We had some reports of slow load times with the refactored inbox after saturday's release. When I went to investigate yesterday I saw the old inbox interface. I don't see any updates on the release notes.

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[Analytics] Display course average grade data by grading period Problem statement: In both Course Analytics and the new Admin Analytics, average grade data is not based on grading periods. For institutions that use grading periods, the grade data is therefore us...	05-16-2023	81	0
[Commons] Remove card image requirement Problem statement: When uploading content to Commons, you are required to attach an image to your content. With Unsplash (and prior to that Flickr), it was easy to search for an image and attach it ...	02-22-2023	154	0
Item Bank Workflows The workflow for item banks in new quizzes is not intuitive to me at all. I'm working with an instructor who has created some item banks that they want to share with colleagues. Can anyone explain to...	01-30-2023	286	1
Studio: Download Prompt Groundhog day I have a teacher reporting that often see the prompt to Download the Screen Capture Application when they launch the screen recorder in Studio. They have already installed the recorder. I have not be...	12-05-2022	294	0
Compressing Stimulus Images I've run into a few instances where the browser has frozen for students when a New Quiz has a lot of images in the stimulus section or question directions. These quizzes can be slow to load on my PC ...	12-05-2022	316	0
Changes to Search Engine Indexing? Hey Canvas friends! Have there been any changes to the way web crawlers (specifically Google in our case) have access to public Canvas courses? One of my institution's public courses used to come up ...	11-16-2022	1948	0
Canvas Parent App - C4E and other questions Is there support for the C4E Homeroom course for Canvas Parent App users? When logging in, the homeroom is listed as a regular course, and when opening homeroom it takes me to the grades screen and s...	09-20-2022	259	0
Changes to the Canvas Calendar?? I don't see anything in the release notes, but there appears to have been a UI change to the event creation window in the Canvas calendar. Previously you could type start/end times into the event, bu...	09-01-2022	644	4
Institutional Item Banks - Organization We are starting to work with Institutional Item Banks in New Quizzes. Right now, I have one curriculum department as our guinea pigs, and I foresee this space becoming cumbersome for staff to navigat...	07-14-2022	486	3
Exclude Images from "Page view" count In New Analytics, when a page with images is loaded it seems that Canvas counts the load of each image on the page as an individual file view, whereas these are just components of the page, users are...	06-02-2022	1406	22
C4E blurry banners Has anyone come up with best settings/tools for creating C4E banner images to avoid blurryness? I've created a banner in Canva with the recommended 5:1 ratio. Everything looks nice and crisp in Canva...	04-21-2022	1100	0
Adobe Spark/Creative Cloud Express Has anyone encountered issues with the Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark) integration? I had a report from a school this morning for a student who is getting stuck in a login loop wh...	04-06-2022	685	0
New Quizzes Student Log - Leaving quiz page The student log in Classic Quizzes shows when a student changes focus away from the open quiz. The log in New quizzes only shows the timestamps for students responses with no indication that they've ...	03-31-2022	3519	4
Broken link to 3/16 deploy notes The link to the 3/16 deploy notes on the Canvas Releases page here in the community comes up as page not found. @erinhmcmillan (sorry if you weren't the right person to tag)	03-08-2022	484	0
Canvas Community: changes to font in links to guides? Canvas - I'm noticing recently that links to Canvas Guides here in Community posts have a different font than other links do. The new font is hard to read and does not seem to meet accessibility expe...	02-16-2022	548	1
[User Settings] Include Conversations in Course-Level notification preferences On the course-level notifications screen users can completely opt-out of notifications from a particular course or customize individual notification types. I learned today that a user who had opted o...	02-02-2022	490	0
Submission type button layout I'm working with Assignment Enhancements in Beta so I don't know if this is the case in Production, but I notice some wonky things when acting as a student where File Upload is chosen as the assignme...	01-19-2022	700	0
Gradebook screen is blank -- impacting some Chrome users I've had some reports where teachers are not able to see their gradebooks in the Chrome browser. I am not able to replicate the issue, so we believe this is being caused by some setting in their brow...	11-03-2021	5921	6
Groups Tab in C4E Can I get clarification around what the intended behavior is for students and the Groups tab? It came to my attention this week (brought up by a parent as a FERPA issue) that under the groups tabs st...	10-27-2021	360	0
[Student Grades] Canvas for Elementary: Grade Averages and Grading Schemes Are there any plans for additional grade visibility settings in C4E? Our use case may be too specific, but this is our situation: primary grade (K-2) receive I, W, or N on their report card, whic...	10-06-2021	506	0

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