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Add notes in new "pretty" HTML editor? I tried to add notes in the new HTML editor, but it was scrubbed: <!-- This is an html comment --> Will that be possible when the new HTML editor is released next month? If not, please cons... |
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01-26-2021
07:38 AM
I tried to add notes in the new HTML editor, but it was scrubbed:
<!-- This is an html comment -->
Will that be possible when the new HTML editor is released next month? If not, please consider the feature request. HTML notes would be very very very helpful in training instructors to do course builds.
Thanks!
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05-11-2020
01:46 PM
As far as I can tell, it is not possible clear a no-point rubric — though you can change the selections. For the scenario you described, you might consider... Do not release the assessment to that student. Depending on the grade posting policy, you may have to manually post the grades to all of the other students (vs. posting all of the grades automatically or in a batch action). Add a note to the existing rubric to indicate that the selections cannot be cleared and should be disregarded. Please do add a note here if you figure out another workaround!
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03-04-2020
06:26 AM
Did anyone happen to find a solution for this? I have an instructor with the same issue.
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02-27-2020
07:52 AM
All courses at my school are pass/fail, and it's an ongoing conversation with admins and faculty re: the opportunities to use various Canvas tools/features for formative assessments and providing students with corrective and explanatory feedback. Rubrics are great for this, but there are a number of aspects that derail adoption and make using these features unnecessarily complex. More specifically... As noted in this idea and the comments, the alphanumeric sorting for ratings that have common point values (whether 0 or another #) essentially forces the use of point values when creating rubrics (even though they can be removed when adding to an assignment). As a workaround, I generally recommend using lowercase roman numerals (i, ii, iii...) ahead of the ratings titles in order to maintain the proper sequence in the rubric when not using point values. It's natural for someone to infer a rating or grade scale (even with the lowercase roman numerals), even when one isn't intended. However inadvertently, this also has the potential to undermine efforts aimed at getting students to focus on the progression of their learning (instead of the grade, whether letter, point, or percentage). When the tool essentially forces an implied or explicit rating or grade scale , i t's extra difficult to encourage the use of the rubrics tool for instructors who want to provide the rubrics to students in the assignment, and also use the rubrics for providing corrective/explanatory feedback, but are adamant about not assigning grades. The rubrics tool adds great value, but these UI issues consistently create roadblocks to broad adoption and necessitate more direct support from ed techs/ learning designers for the rubric and assignment builds (many instructors get lost in the minutia of the workarounds required to make the tool work for their not-uncommon use case and, to my knowledge, existing support documentation doesn't address these issues). M aking a no-point rubric a true option by allowing points to be turned off when creating the rubric and allowing for the ratings and criteria to be manually sorted seems like a straightforward fix that would be a great step toward accommodating assessments and feedback that don't use grades.
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10-07-2019
08:26 AM
1 Kudo
A few thoughts after pointing an admin to Analytics Beta for a specific project: The Analytics Beta UI is a fairly good interface. It does not, however, lend itself well to tracking completion rates (of modules or other discrete types of activities, assignments) for large groups of students directly within the UI. The .csv export provides a more flexible alternative — but it only includes Canvas IDs and University IDs, and not student names, and so must be combined with other data for some data analysis requirements (increasing the potential for error, etc.). The Analytics Beta UI also requires a certain level of prior knowledge (of the the tool, its integration with CourseWorks, as well as some basics regarding descriptive statistics), which cannot be presumed for the end user. Some examples: The counts only include students who have accepted invitations to the course site, but this isn't necessarily known or assumed by the end user. There is no definition of read receipts, nor any explanation of what is counted as a page view or participation available within the tool. Tooltips are helpful — for users who know they are there, which assumes a certain level of facility with contemporary digital interfaces that, in my experience, doesn't exist for a large number of end users. There is no ability to manually refresh the data, nor any indication of when the data will next be updated; though, at this time, the system does note the most recent refresh (i.e., "As of Oct 6, 3:47 PM EDT"). Views are limited to week by week for some UIs in the tool, which may not be applicable to a given use case.
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10-04-2019
10:43 AM
@jbell0385 Might I suggest (request?) that you place this in the Ideas space so the Canvas LMS Community can vote on it for development? I would be very happy to implement your code, but am currently stretched too think to do that kind of custom dev in a subaccount.
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09-16-2019
12:42 PM
3 Kudos
Thanks erinhallmark Re-posted in Ideas: Consistent & clear indication of tool status/visibility
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09-16-2019
09:22 AM
5 Kudos
erinhallmark — Where is the best place to comment further on the upcoming changes to navigation and visibility settings?
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09-12-2019
07:03 AM
6 Kudos
erinhallmark — Thanks for being responsive to the comments here. Might you be able to share additional info or otherwise connect me to someone who can shed some light on the basis/rationale for these design decisions? While community feedback and UX are indeed important considerations, many in the learning sciences (and other fields!) have been doing some fascinating research that underpins related design principles and other evidence-based constructs. Are the design teams operationalizing evidence-based design principles and research findings from a particular field or guide? operating on heuristics? something else? Any additional information you can provide would be great context, in general, and might also be a meaningful contribution to these discussions — at least insofar as it has the potential to shift the conversation away from preference as a driver (as expressed here, as well as in A/B user testing) toward evidence-based design and development of learning environments. More specifically, I've been tuned in to the discussions about the forthcoming changes to the course navigation. fwiw, I'd like to chime in with some words from Jef Raskin's book The Humane Interface: "Surprisingly, icons violate the principle of visibility. It is their meanings that are not visible. Use icons only in the few situations where research has shown them to be advantageous" (p. 173-174). (You can view part of the section on Icons in Google Books; alas the pages I'm quoting from aren't available there.) As @Linkletter noted in this thread, let's at least be sure that icons are used consistently throughout the LMS (i.e., that it has the same meaning regardless of the tool or page or user or...). All my best, Ofelia
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08-23-2019
10:39 AM
Thanks, erinhallmark. I have reviewed the style guide 2.0. IntUI looks wonderful, and it makes complete sense for Instructure to make that move. However, deprecating the old style guide/code without having something in place that allows an end-user to replicate some of the core functionality while still using HTML (i.e., without the need to fuss with the css or javascript) seems to have caught a lot of people unawares and left scrambling to figure out what to do. I look forward to more updates on the path forward with the new style guide. All best, Ofelia
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08-23-2019
10:21 AM
Page history for the syllabus tool is essential. The beta/test environment updates are infrequent enough that it cannot be relied upon for restoring content, particularly in the days/weeks leading up to the start of a new term. One of the great benefits of Canvas is how well it functions as both a CMS and an LMS. But no page history for what is arguably one of the most important pages in every course site is a problem (i.e., inconsistency between page/tool behaviors, lack of notification/communication that there is no page history for the syllabus tool, etc.). When I used Sakai, I sort of hacked a parallel CMS in Google Drive where instructors could edit/revise content and then move it into the LMS when it was finalized. (Sakai didn't have a draft mode for anything, at least at the time.) I've been using Canvas for a year now, and never felt the need to do the same thing — until now.
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07-23-2019
07:23 AM
One this to look out for with this method is the overlay of certain page elements, including discussion post actions and the chat window (if/when enabled in the course site). I've found a workaround by using a browser extension that takes a screenshot of the entire webpage (vs. PDF export that will break it into pages; hence the repeat and overlay of certain page elements/windows). Some of these browser extensions will also give you different options for export (png, pdf, etc.). I export to PDF and run OCR so the text is accessible.
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05-24-2019
08:02 AM
4 Kudos
Hi erinhallmark, This update (from a year ago) is helpful info. I very much want to use InstUI, but the required resource allocation (namely time) makes it impossible for me to do so. I'm a solo ID managing the school's subaccount of our institution's instance of Canvas. Just keeping up with the maintenance on any changes is prohibitive, given that I'm also wearing a number of other hats related to the school's ed design + tech resources and services. I know I'm not alone in this type of circumstance where we may have the skills to use InstUI (or the stubbornness to figure it out!) but we have to limit what we can maintain and support over the long term. It's something I bump into frequently with Canvas, and is my biggest frustration with the platform (or maybe second to the lack of parity between the browser UI and the apps). I wish Instructure would provide: a detailed explanation of the path forward and the progress made to date that can be understood by an end user that has zero experience with coding (e.g., https://instructure.design/#index); and clear explanations re: the intended audience in context with the resources available (i.e., on the instructure.design page note that end users might consider contacting their LMS admins for support in implementing these features, or note that the intended user for those materials are developers and not teachers or instructional designers) leading up to your solution(s) for fully implementing these affordances in the default Canvas themes (via the RTE or HTML or something functional for the average end user who may not know what to do with HTML much less InstUI). Canvas's current reliance on the community for providing these explanations and support (as wonderful as this community is!) leads to a lot wasted time and effort by those us of who are tasked with supporting use of the platform by faculty/adjuncts/admins who vary considerably when it comes to being able (DIY <> facilitated course builds) and willing (luddite <> techno-utopia) to use the LMS effectively.
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05-14-2019
08:06 AM
Echoing the need for a straightforward export function for discussions.
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03-19-2019
10:26 AM
Calendar sync would be very very very helpful!
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01-11-2019
11:36 AM
The recommendations in this post are helpful as an interim workaround. There are numerous downsides, though — not least of which is the disruption incurred when students have to intermittently leave Canvas to draft content and then copy + paste it back into the RTE. Other considerations: consistency | Some tools have auto-save while others do not and neither is labeled appropriately. accessibility | Copying and then pasting content into the RTE causes all sorts of issues for those who are differently abled and rely upon screen readers (i.e., junk code, structure/formatting, etc.). I've also had faculty ask why we would use Canvas at all if the students have to compose their work elsewhere to ensure they don't lose it. Of course there are other benefits to using the LMS, but they are spot on in noting the lack of a basic feature that people assume is built in to any online RTE.
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01-09-2019
01:00 PM
2 Kudos
YES! Modules are woefully inadequate for tracking progress and signaling/ situational awareness within a course. This tracker plus changing breadcrumbs to follow the module path (vs. the tool) would go a loooooong way toward improving the functionality of modules.
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01-02-2019
01:22 PM
Hello! I'm using tabs to build out some content. Everything is working well except internal links. External links work just fine, but links within Canvas are not working. More specifically... Internal links to course tools (e.g., discussions) and tagged headers (i.e., #header) do not work. Any code that contains an internal link to a course tool cannot be saved (i.e., Canvas's junk response to junk code). Links to internal headers can be saved and clicked, but do not navigate to the target destination. Note: Code in red below was auto-generated by Canvas in RTE using right sidebar link menu (for tools) and RTE link dialog (for tagged headers). I've tried various iterations of the code below: <div class="enhanceable_content tabs"> <ul> <li><a href="#tab-01"><i class="icon-educators"></i> Instructors</a></li> <li><a href="#tab-02"><i class="icon-target"></i> Learning Goals</a></li> <li><a href="#tab-03"><i class="icon-flag"></i> Course Policies</a></li> </ul> [...removed for brevity] <div id="tab-03"> [...] <h3 id="Communication"><i class="icon-flag"> Communication </i></h3> <p>Get into the habit of checking CourseWorks and LionMail daily, since it’s how we’ll keep you up-to-date on any changes in assignments or other developments.</p> <p>ADD COMMUNICATION POLICY HERE</p> <h4 id="AskingQuestions">Asking Questions</h4> <p>Use the General Questions discussion <i class="icon-discussion"> </i> for questions about the course, syllabus, assignments, etc.</p> <p>Use the <a title="Open Discussion" href=" https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/courses/80165/discussion_topics/276872 ">Open Discussion</a> <i class="icon-discussion"> </i> as an unmoderated space for you to connect with your fellow students.</p> <p><a href="#h_258081927151546462297738">Email the instructors</a> <i class="icon-email"> </i> for other communication related to your work or your performance in the course.</p> <p> <a href="#h_258081927151546462297738"> Email the instructors</a> <i class="icon-email"> </i> for other communication related to your work or your performance in the course.</p> Any insights or suggestions for troubleshooting further are much appreciated!
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11-19-2018
10:14 AM
Maybe an optimal configuration in Canvas would look something like: hierarchical page structures (i.e., parent and child pages) which are visible as a page tree or other kind of site map via the pages tool and are reflected in the course site navigation/ breadcrumbs which can also map to folders in the files tool (optional) ___________ Additional explanation, logic: I used Sakai for years and, imho, the grass really is greener in Canvas in many ways. The page structure and navigation/ breadcrumbs is an exception. @develand — Want to clarify between organizing pages in folders (which is what you would do with documents in, say, Google Drive or Dropbox) and site maps (that display different information depending upon the configuration; e.g., index for alphabetical list, site "tree" for hierarchy, etc.). While I can understand the interest in having folders (i.e., to organize the content of/on the pages in a course site), the pages are indeed web pages and a sitemap would, I think, be 1) more appropriate, and 2) be very useful in the course design process as well. In Sakai, auto-creation of folders (in the resources tool) happens conditionally (i.e., when you add certain content to an existing page using certain paths). It's similar to files in Canvas, but different. Regardless, there is still a distinction between the sitemap/page tree and the folders in that the sitemap/page tree organizes the pages and the folders organize the content in/on the pages (and not the pages themselves). I look forward to everyone's thoughts...
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