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I'm trying to get a sense of the wider Canvas community's approach to student access to a course. When does a student gain access? When do they lose access (if ever)? The LMS provides lots of options around this, and we're looking at our peers to help guide our department's advocacy for future policymaking. I'll start first. This is the status quo for us— I work at a smaller Art and Design College. We provide access to a course the Sunday before the first day of class (or earlier if an instructor chooses.) Students lose the ability to access or interact with a course 3 weeks after the last day of the course. Thanks for anyone willing to share their policy around this!

alexander_mitch · ‎05-12-2023

I'm the LMS Admin at a small college that has a few certificate programs, and we're interested in possibly replacing our current digital credentialing solution with Canvas Badges (or possibly Canvas Credentials). One of the main sticking points is the term 'badge', which seems more appropriate for smaller or less formal credentials, but not really appropriate for a full multi-course certificate. Do any of the Canvas/Badgr credentialing options allow someone to change the term 'badge' to something else as it appears in emails, etc? Right now, the only option I can imagine is including the word Certificate in the title, thus getting the somewhat underwhelming '___ Certificate Badge'. Our current credentialing service allows us to call our credentials 'certificates'. How are other institutions handling this?

alexander_mitch · ‎08-11-2020

Hi Kim, Sometimes the text of an external link will get deleted, but the link itself is still in the HTML View of the page. If you're in the Rich Content Editor and go into the HTML View, you'll see a bit of code that looks like <a class="external" href="https://www.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a> Normally, the linked line of text would be right in front of the </a> tag, but it was deleted, and the link itself wasn't. If you remove that line of code, you should remove the stray external link icon. —Alex

alexander_mitch · ‎08-11-2020

What version of Mac OS are you on? Catalina has additional security permissions that need to be enabled for microphone/video/screen-recording. Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy Make sure that the "Screen Recorder" app has a check next to it in the categories you find it. El Capitan seems to also have some issues, probably just because it's an older version. I hope that's at least a little helpful?

alexander_mitch · ‎05-11-2020

The option to disable the inline preview is really useful for lists of links in a page. There is really no time that I would intentionally use the inline embedded preview, the iframe embed is so much nicer on a page, and if I want to save space, I'd much prefer ordinary linked text.

alexander_mitch · ‎02-06-2020

Hello, Community! I'm an administrator at a small Art & Design school, and we're struggling with figuring out where to cap the personal file storage for users. As you might imagine for a school with our focus, many of our courses involve critique in an open forum. The best way to do that historically for us has been sharing embedded images in a Discussion-style setting where students can comment and reply. Unfortunately, we are quickly discovering that this approach is already taxing the limited file quota established for Users. Furthermore—embedded images at the core of graded assessments in a course are vulnerable to students deleting them at any point in the future (unlike "submitted" files). Until recently, we were self-hosted on Blackboard, and our storage concerns were of an entirely different nature. My questions are: Where (numerically) do you set your User Quota and why? If you have courses that require open critique of images online, how are you handling it? Thanks for your help!

alexander_mitch · ‎11-08-2019

That's fantastic news! —Alex

alexander_mitch · ‎11-08-2019

This tool: Compared to expanding the Ellipses, locating the Apps button, and selecting Studio from a list of all installed apps, this is much more surfaced.

alexander_mitch · ‎11-08-2019

As the "RCE Enhancements" continue along the path of development to release, our institution would voice our concern that the new design seems to totally bury Canvas Studio (a paid Canvas product), while surfacing the default media embed tool. Is there a plan to make this customizable? Is Canvas Studio being phased out? We're going to have a very difficult time getting faculty to the right video tool if this is the only UI configuration.

alexander_mitch · ‎10-10-2019

Something we've noticed as we're looking at the new navigation menu—classes are no longer being used to distinguish hidden navigation menu sections? Having those classes would be useful for anyone doing custom styling.

alexander_mitch · ‎09-12-2019

Hello! I am an admin interested in exploring Mastery Paths. Where do I start? The guides for this have been particularly unhelpful, and the video guide is marked outdated and deprecated. I can see that Mastery Paths is an optional Feature in our account. Once this is turned on globally in an instance, what next steps must I take to see it in action?

alexander_mitch · ‎08-27-2019

Hello, everyone! I'm very interested in specifics about how Studio behaves on Mobile devices, specifically for a student to post their own Studio video to a Discussion. I have read the Guides for both, but I'm still unsure if this task is possible to accomplish via: iOS Mobile Browsers Android Mobile Browsers iOS Canvas Student App Android Canvas Student App (This is by far our most common use case, and I'm not sure what is currently possible given the unsupported or partially supported status of mobile devices in Studio.) Studio and the Canvas Student App are both Canvas products, and it is my hope that there is a timeline for better integration in the future? Likewise, if there is no near-term plan for that, it would be useful to know that as well.

alexander_mitch · ‎06-20-2019

Hello, everyone! Our institution is still new to Canvas, and to capitalize on the lessons we've learned so far, we've created a course with generic items that can be copied into blank course shells to give faculty and staff a strong starting point when developing their courses. My questions for the community are: Do you maintain "template" courses? What format does this take (ordinary course, Blueprint course, or Commons course)? What are some best practices you've formed? For example: We've already learned that it's possible to overwrite content by importing selected items more than once. Thanks for any help!

alexander_mitch · ‎06-06-2019

Thanks for the reply, Brian! It seems like at smaller institutions, exceptional situations tend to be a sizable percentage of all the situations somehow. It may be that we need to reexamine the way we're handling our SSO integration. I'm sure we didn't know it would interact with notification systems this way.

alexander_mitch · ‎06-06-2019

Hello, all. This is a common enough issue that I'm sure others have dealt with. Our enrollments are primarily handled through SIS integration or manual .csv uploads, but from time to time we need to enroll a single instructor in a course. It would be far, far simpler to be able to do this through the UI in such cases—but when I enroll a user this way, there is an automatic notification generated, and the notification information is confusing/incorrect due to the way our SSO is configured (specifically, the username provided in the message is not the username we'd choose to give people.) My questions are: Is there any way to disable this notification? Is there any way to modify this notification? How do you handle this kind of issue at your institution?

alexander_mitch · ‎05-14-2019

Thank you, this is very helpful!

alexander_mitch · ‎05-14-2019

I'm guessing that the rollout of the branding wasn't meant to happen in exactly this way, but I would appreciate more heads-up on this sort of branding change as an administrator. It has already affected our institutional messaging and documentation processes in a big way, and it would be easier to manage with more heads-up. It might be nice to have the announcement/explanation of the change sooner rather than later, in a way that's a bit more searchable than this Q+A post. Thank you for your response here, though, Erin—this is the first information I've found on the Community about this change!

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How Does Your Institution Handle Student Course Access? I'm trying to get a sense of the wider Canvas community's approach to student access to a course. When does a student gain access? When do they lose access (if ever)? The LMS provides lots of options...	a week ago	217	0
Canvas Badges / Credentials — Can the term 'Badges' be renamed? I'm the LMS Admin at a small college that has a few certificate programs, and we're interested in possibly replacing our current digital credentialing solution with Canvas Badges (or possibly Canvas ...	05-12-2023	126	0
User Quota Questions Hello, Community! I'm an administrator at a small Art & Design school, and we're struggling with figuring out where to cap the personal file storage for users. As you might imagine for a sc...	02-06-2020	538	0
How to set up Mastery Paths? Hello! I am an admin interested in exploring Mastery Paths. Where do I start? The guides for this have been particularly unhelpful, and the video guide is marked outdated and deprecated. I c...	09-12-2019	1466	1
Mobile Posting with Studio Hello, everyone! I'm very interested in specifics about how Studio behaves on Mobile devices, specifically for a student to post their own Studio video to a Discussion. I have read the G...	08-27-2019	2908	12
What are best practices for using and maintaining a "template" course? Hello, everyone! Our institution is still new to Canvas, and to capitalize on the lessons we've learned so far, we've created a course with generic items that can be copied into blank course ...	06-20-2019	774	0
Manual Enrollment Without Notifications Hello, all. This is a common enough issue that I'm sure others have dealt with. Our enrollments are primarily handled through SIS integration or manual .csv uploads, but from time to time we need ...	06-06-2019	2690	7

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