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anthony_sales1 · ‎06-11-2020

Brilliant Tool - will save so much time

anthony_sales1 · ‎02-10-2020

Lol, don’t hold your breath! I have been arguing this for about two years – At first they said it was on purpose for accessibility reasons – that VI users liked the name of the page in the URL! But having worked with VI users for 15 years this is complete nonsense – and none of the other objects in Canvas follow this protocol. I have challenged them to come up with just one scenario in which someone would want internal links to content pages to break when they changed the name tumbleweed. Even if there was some bizarre reason for doing this giving us a choice when changing a name would be nice – e.g. a dialogue box pops up and says would you like to retain internal links to this page? ☺

anthony_sales1 · ‎02-07-2020

Yes this makes adding a series of links on a content to a series of items very slow and time consuming especially if the items are quite a way down the list. Surely the Add list should stay open until we close it by clicking on the cross at the top right.

anthony_sales1 · ‎02-07-2020

Anther very annoying feature of the new RCE is that when you insert a link to something from the right hand pop up list - it disappears once you insert something which means that you have to open the list and navigate all the way back to the same place every time you want to link something. This makes inserting a series of links to a series of items very slow and tedious...

anthony_sales1 · ‎02-07-2020

Hi Stephen, unfortunately not – that option isn’t available under options ☹

anthony_sales1 · ‎02-06-2020

Ok after further testing it seems the issue is - if you select all of the text to replace and you accidentally release the mouse button slightly off the pop up box - the box closes - this is very easy to do and there is only a small space between the edge of the text box and the window itself - releasing the mouse button off the pop up box shouldn't act as though you clicked off the box surely?

anthony_sales1 · ‎02-06-2020

Ok it looks like you cannot edit an existing hyperlink on an image - because it requires you to enter text - but if you remove the hyperlink and start from scratch it works. But you also cannot use ctrl+c to paste into the hyperlink edit box - as soon as you select all the text to overwrite the window closes...

anthony_sales1 · ‎02-06-2020

Just testing out the new content editor - it seems it is no longer possible to use an image as a link??? You are required to enter text before you can save any changes and this simply overwrites the image - please tell me that isn't intentional???

anthony_sales1 · ‎02-05-2020

Lol, yep have tried that several times over the last two years and nothing has ever happened – either not enough votes, or even if it gets enough votes – the development team decide not to do it or make it a priority – have lost faith in that system really…

anthony_sales1 · ‎02-05-2020

To be honest – I liked having the choice of open in the current tab or in a new tab – and I would really like the option of being able to open the link in an iframe in the same tab – e.g. if they clicked on a link in a content page it would open the webpage in the frame that holds the document – not that anything useful like this is likely to ever happen…

anthony_sales1 · ‎02-04-2020

Yep it seems the default is now a new window – which would be my preference tbh , but there may well be situations in which this isn’t the desired outcome and that option seems missing now…

anthony_sales1 · ‎02-04-2020

In the new RCE we no longer have the option of pressing ctrl+k which allowed us to choose between the link opening on the same tab or in a new window/tab - it seems the default is now new window/tab and there is no option to open the external URL in the same tab/window. Will this option be added?

anthony_sales1 · ‎09-18-2019

Yep I am sure there are issues with older browsers, but in the UK official advice is that Edge isn't secure either so we are stuck between a rock and a hard place - there is no indication that Canvas had any security concerns about IE11, it seems some elements were not working as expected and they decided to turn off support rather than fixing these issues. I just wonder how many people around the world are still using IE11? And no other major educational software provider has taken this same step - all the other paid systems we use continue to work perfectly fine in IE11... Seems to me they couldn't be bothered to fix it and used the age/status of IE11 as an excuse...

anthony_sales1 · ‎09-17-2019

Yep I have found them now - I read all of the Canvas update notification summaries and then read the full release notes if there is anything mentioned which might have an impact on our learners. None of the notifications I received mentioned IE11 explicitly or that the list of supported browsers was changing. I would expect a change of this significance to be explicitly flagged in big red letters at the top of an update notification. The fact that it wasn't even mentioned is gobsmacking, but to be honest doesn't really surprise me any more... To just suddenly turn off support for a still widely used browser isn't good customer service - even if it had a few glitches it was still usable. Our college is still using IE11 because in the UK Edge is not yet approved by Cyber Essentials, so we are not allowed to use it. So now it is the start of a new term and our students cannot access Canvas with the colleges default browser...

anthony_sales1 · ‎09-16-2019

Although everything seemed to be working fine on Friday, I have come into work on Monday morning and discovered that IE11 is no longer supported by Canvas! And students and staff are unable to log in because IE11 is still the default browser used by the college. I suspect there are a very large number of users all over the world that are still using IE11, and even though I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few anomalies with the display etc, I don't understand why support has just been turned off without any notice (I have searched all updates notices and cannot find any reference to IE11). Gobsmacked... Could we at least have an explanation as to why this decision was made and whether you actually bothered to consult any customers before pulling the plug... OK I have now found an update from August 31st called Supported Browsers and if you follow the link it lists all the other browsers but IE11 - but it doesn't state anywhere that IE11 will no longer be supported - which should have at least warranted it's own headline - if a popular supported browser is having the plug pulled you don't just slyly remove it from the list of supported browsers and not notify anyone - this is very poor customer service...

anthony_sales1 · ‎06-17-2019

Thanks for the tip about the numbers and testing it with a course copy, but if I can’t copy the course it defeats the object of changing the links – the fact that links break is still a massive bugbear… ☹

anthony_sales1 · ‎05-21-2019

Well their standard defense is that that have to use the page names as URL's for accessibility purposes (they use this excuse often) - which is nonsense for two reasons - firstly none of the other objects in canvas follow this URL naming procedure e.g. quizzes, assignments etc, and secondly even if they insist on using the page name as the URL, there is simply no need for internal links to it to break on a name change - it would be a simple script job... Don't hold your breath they haven't updated the page editor etc for 8-9 years - apparently page content is not a priority, and what they really want to do is sell you another expensive add-on...

anthony_sales1 · ‎03-22-2019

I have to say this is a real bugbear for me - this is a flaw or a bug - not a feature request - it makes absolutely no sense for internal links to internal pages to break when you change the name - given that this does not happen for any other objects in canvas e.g. assignments, quizzes etc - I can think of no scenario in which a user would want links to an internal content page to break when the name is changed. In fact all that is required is a simple script which runs when you change the name of a page - this checks for any internal links to the page and changes the name if found... The fact they are aware of this and have said they have no intention of fixing it anytime soon speaks volumes about their attitude to user needs. In fact I think this issue is such a flaw, unless it is fixed I really won't be able to support a renewal of our contract when it expires... For example - I have just created a new course from our template - updated all of the unit/page names and now there are 511 broken links which I have to go through manually and change...

anthony_sales1 · ‎01-14-2019

I have also tried to make a flexible template for staff but have taken a very different approach - graphical menu system rather than tables with links - but like yours it works on desktops, tablets and phones as well For details follow link below: Creating graphical menus with editable text overlay in the content editor

Post Details	Date Published	Views	Kudos
New RCE Just testing out the new content editor - it seems it is no longer possible to use an image as a link??? You are required to enter text before you can save any changes and this simply overwrites the ...	02-06-2020	785	3
ctrl+k - target of link In the new RCE we no longer have the option of pressing ctrl+k which allowed us to choose between the link opening on the same tab or in a new window/tab - it seems the default is now new window/tab ...	02-04-2020	1900	6
IE11 No Longer Supported! Although everything seemed to be working fine on Friday, I have come into work on Monday morning and discovered that IE11 is no longer supported by Canvas! And students and staff are unable to log in...	09-16-2019	2068	4
Creating graphical menus with editable text overlay in the content editor I thought I would share the following CSS/JS files in case there is anyone else who wants to be able to do this. Here are some screenshots of how it will look: ...	12-14-2018	1938	2

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