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gpillsbury · ‎04-26-2023

It just happened again. The subject line in the email was "DROWNING NOT WAVING", if that gives you a sense of who panicked instructors can get when they're presented with a 'blank' column in their gradebook after changing the existing assignment cohort.

gpillsbury · ‎09-14-2022

I agree with Jeff - definitely create a new discussion activity for each week. Canvas's discussion tool is really designed for managing a single topic, which would be the week's video.

gpillsbury · ‎08-28-2022

You need to tell internet search engines about this policy. The first result of the question I just searched for has apparently been archived, leaving me with no way to access a potentially quick solution. Now, I have to re-ask the question and wait (hopefully) for answers.

gpillsbury · ‎07-21-2022

To be blunt, how is this not already built into the Item Bank concept? If you're going to build a sharing concept into Item Banks (fine, that's a good feature), why is the course *the bank is created in* not automatically one of the places it's shared to? And we have to "discuss" and vote on this as a feature???

gpillsbury · ‎07-05-2022

Keep in mind that embedding an image will count against your personal storage limit in Canvas.

gpillsbury · ‎04-28-2022

It just happened again! Needed a virtual defibrillator to restart the instructor's heart when all the scores came back after resetting the Assign To they'd mistakenly changed.

gpillsbury · ‎04-28-2022

Isn't this feature request met by using the blueprint course functionality? We create a minimal course template with various things checked/unchecked and use that to build shells. Each term we reevaluate anything in the blueprint. Or am I misunderstanding the request?

gpillsbury · ‎12-16-2021

Use the existing group discussion feature for this. Create enough groups so that everyone has their own group by themselves.

gpillsbury · ‎11-26-2021

Currently, students always have access to the “Submission Details” link on an assignment page, even if they don’t have a submission posted. Moreover, this link is visible for non-submitters after the assignment has been locked by the Until feature. The “Submission Details” should be hidden until a student actually makes a submission. Otherwise, students can ‘unofficially’ submit from the Submission Details page by using the “Attach File” feature of the commenting tool there. In this approach, the student is able to circumvent the Until setting, and they may believe they have officially submitted something to the assignment. Unofficial submissions also cause confusion for instructors.

gpillsbury · ‎11-12-2021

The Canvas quiz tool already shows a warning when you open the Settings page or when you edit questions after students have submitted attempts. It's clear that that warning is either not being read in this use case or it is not clear enough to be understood as affecting the display of quiz results when an existing "Assign To" input field is changed. A specific warning needs to be attached to a change in the Assign To input field, especially when the instructor deletes "Everyone" from the field and any student attempts have already been recorded. I think this is by far the most common 'trap': the instructor deletes "Everyone" in order to put a specific student's name in to give them a special extension or availability window. If we could start by catching the deletion of "Everyone", that would be a good first step.

gpillsbury · ‎11-12-2021

@KathyDButler - No, Turnitin is not available in discussions, either using the current tool or in the redesign. As far as I know, it is not being considered for inclusion. The redesign seems to be more about user interface changes than adding major features.

gpillsbury · ‎11-05-2021

No, nothing like that is possible.

gpillsbury · ‎11-05-2021

1) No setting engages with those comments. 2) No setting exists. Perhaps worth a feature request?

gpillsbury · ‎11-05-2021

Have you tried using a different browser to see if the problem is repeatable there?

gpillsbury · ‎11-05-2021

Just create a regular assignment in Canvas and set the Submission Type to "No Submission". After you save and publish, click the "Rubric" button on the Assignment details page. Configure the rubric as desired. Then, to evaluate the students, simply open SpeedGrader. You'll view the rubric and click to assign a score to each component. Then, you have to type in the final score in the Score field and click Save - it doesn't seem to automatically transfer the score generated by the rubric clicks. Then, move to the next student.

gpillsbury · ‎11-05-2021

One way would be to copy the URL of the Chat item that is in the course navigation, and then paste that into the Page the instructor is working on. Right-click on the Chat link and choose "Copy Link Address" (your browser may use different wording). Chat is an "external tool", meaning it's not part of Canvas the way Assignments or Quizzes are. As such, it's technically not a course link and so does not appear in the Insert menu choices. -Glenn

gpillsbury · ‎11-03-2021

I have answered two panicked support questions today alone from instructors who have been allowed to mess up their quizzes by changing the existing Assign To. (Will continue to post here each time an instructor is allowed to fall into this trap...)

gpillsbury · ‎11-02-2021

@chriscas Curious to know what use you have in mind for this feature. A warning is the minimum that’s needed, yes.

gpillsbury · ‎11-01-2021

The ability to use the Import tool to copy a Canvas course into itself should be disabled. There is no reasonable use for such a feature, and when instructors mistakenly choose the existing course as one to import, they are then faced with cleaning up the mess of duplicated items. This also results in unnecessary support calls.

gpillsbury · ‎10-30-2021

If all 110 courses need the same content, set one of them as a Blueprint course. Then, in the courses.csv file you can specify the ID of your blueprint course to be used by the 110 courses. That will copy the activities. However, the due dates of each activity in each course will still need to be checked manually.

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Prevent students from seeing “Submission Details” link without a submission Currently, students always have access to the “Submission Details” link on an assignment page, even if they don’t have a submission posted. Moreover, this link is visible for non-submitters after the...	11-26-2021	346	0
[Course Import/Export] Do not allow importing a course into itself The ability to use the Import tool to copy a Canvas course into itself should be disabled. There is no reasonable use for such a feature, and when instructors mistakenly choose the existing cou...	11-01-2021	473	0
[Assignments] Warn teachers about changing Assign To information after student work has occurred Please add an alert of some sort to warn teachers whenever they try to change an existing Assign To field in an assignment or quiz by removing a student or set of students from the list after student...	10-24-2021	701	0
Feedback on new reply sidebar In the Sept 15 release, a new reply sidebar was added that replaced the unfolding of replies below a topic. Thumbs down from me. The flyout takes you out of the flow of the thread and sud...	09-15-2021	3226	19
[Course Navigation] Make the Visibility icon clickable in Course Navigation items to change state Currently, the Course Navigation menu shows a crossed-out eye Visibility icon for items in the menu that are not visible to students. However, unlike other areas of Canvas (such as Assignments and Mo...	01-29-2021	814	0
Reuse grading scheme in another course? Is it possible to reuse a customized grading scheme in another course? I recently created a modified version of our account grading scheme in one course and hoped to simply select the modified ...	01-18-2021	787	0
Link validator shows blank page Trying to use the link validator on a few courses and all of them simply return a blank page. Most do not show the button "Start Validation". At best, there is a brief flash of "Loading.....	12-02-2020	772	0
Targeting an app page's URL with Javascript I am trying to help our users understand the Redirect Tool by modifying some of the default Canvas content on that tool's installation page. To do so, I am using the Theme Editor to upload a .j...	09-21-2020	978	0

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