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lmoline · ‎02-13-2022

I have a group of assignments that are not graded. The individual assignments don't show up in the gradebook, but the assignment group does. There will NEVER be a grade for anything in this group, because none of the assignments is graded. I would like to remove this assignment group from the gradebook, but it appears that this is not possible. It would be nice to have the ability to remove an assignment group total (not the assignments themselves) from the gradebook, particularly if it isn't a weighted group. I personally do not need to have the total of the grouped assignments visible to me. I only look at the absolute total of all the assignments, irrespective of group. This would be a great option. I find the lack of flexibility in the gradebook display frustrating. I'd love a different, easier environment to re-arrange items in the gradebook, too. the horizontal drag across the screen is very difficult from a usability perspective. 🔎 This idea has been archived. While this idea isn't open for comments, it is an important part of Instructure’s idea conversations and development process . Contributions like this are valuable as Instructure prioritizes work on new or existing features.

lmoline · ‎03-09-2021

Thanks! Works a treat!

lmoline · ‎03-09-2021

The new release on Canvas has a new background color palette. I would like to add custom colors to this palette; I do not like the new choices; they are too dark. Is it possible to do this? Image below is the current palette. Otherwise I have to edit the HTML for the color I want in an inline style and that gets old.

lmoline · ‎02-26-2020

I ended up using the pre-flight mailer suggestion above, and it worked well for this situation. However, I would still like to be able to format things more efficiently with external or embedded styles, which it seems Canvas just isn't interested in making available. My experience with Canvas as both I and students make the transition from another platform is that we struggle with the UNIFORMITY of everything. I go out of my way to format things so that there is stronger visual hierarchy and contrast. It is just a lot of work.

lmoline · ‎01-23-2020

I have asked my institution's Canvas team this question, and their answer contradicts what I have found for myself on this Canvas Community site, so I'll go ahead and outline what I would like to do, and see if y'all can answer me. I need a Canvas role for someone who is NOT the instructor to have access to course content (like a student would), but also have access to the roll call attendance tool. This person MAY NOT EVER see grades. Is there a Canvas role that would allow the person access to attendance but NOT to the grade book? My institution told me the Teaching Assistant role would work, but it is my understanding from reading this site that the TA role DOES allow interaction with grades.

lmoline · ‎01-15-2020

Awesome! Fixed!

lmoline · ‎01-15-2020

For some reason my Canvas site has a column for "imported assignments" in the gradebook. I have no imported assignments. How can I get rid of this column? where did it come from?

lmoline · ‎09-17-2019

I'll contact my institution to see whether that access is available to me 🙂

lmoline · ‎09-17-2019

That is a very useful little utility! Other than a few little things that aren't worth bothering about, it did a very nice job with the styles.

lmoline · ‎09-17-2019

Thank you.

lmoline · ‎09-17-2019

I'm not really wanting a custom CSS editor. I'm wanting to be able to write efficient styles. Using a visual editor to do the formatting I want would be just as time consuming and frustrating as writing inline styles, which I have the skills to do, just not the time. I just want access to an embedded style sheet.

lmoline · ‎09-17-2019

I'm not sure that the accessibility problems that are introduced with the iframe are worth the trouble. I am confused that Canvas would prefer to introduce all the accessibility problems that are inherent in an iframe rather than just letting people use embedded styles; you blacklist problematic styles anyway, so the results of a self-styled Canvas page would be much preferable to the anything-goes styles in an iframe (not to mention all the problematic things that iframes introduce in terms of responsiveness, extra scrollbars, and content which is not accessible).

lmoline · ‎09-17-2019

I would never have considered an iframe to solve a CSS challenge. I'll take a look. iframes present interesting accessibility challenges: it would be much more accessible to allow embedded CSS in a canvas page than this workaround! I'll certainly try this, but would it not be worth considering allowing embedded CSS in a Canvas page? What are the reasons that it is forbidden? I read the linked discussion, and it involved all sorts of accessibility-problematic desires (image maps!)

lmoline · ‎09-17-2019

I use a fair amount of inline CSS to visually format the materials for my courses. One frustration I have is that I cannot use external or embedded styles to do this more efficiently: I have to micro style every instance of some content so that it is formatted correctly. This is not just a matter of formal preference, but rather it is to help students with some of the information that I need to share with them. I teach web technology, and this becomes an issue of usability. For instance, I have some cheat sheets of common HTML and CSS validation errors, and in D2L, my former learning management system, I could easily use embedded styles so that these cheat sheets looked exactly like the HTML and CSS validation error pages that students would encounter when validating their work. In Canvas, the cheat sheets are much less helpful because the visual formatting doesn't work. I have attached screen shots: D2L Canvas: I would like to be able to use an embedded style so that the 10 or 15 errors (on each of the HTML and CSS cheat sheets) are formatted in a comprehensible way. It would take a great deal of time to actually write inline styles for this, and it isn't reasonable to expect it. PDF or image versions of this document are far less usable and accessible, which is something Canvas seems to want to promote! Is it possible to allow an embedded style sheet in a Canvas page? I have tried and have not been successful.

lmoline · ‎09-13-2019

I have "assignments" that are not graded and I do not want them in the grade book. I have searched for how to create something that will show up in a students "to do" stream, but not require a submission and not be cluttering up the gradebook. These seem to be "events" or "activities" but I cannot figure out how to create a new "activity." These are activities that assign videos to view, and I want the activity to show up somewhere to remind students to do them. Right now I have these as "pages" but they have no reminders that they need to be done, and are therefore easily missed.

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Assignment Groups and the Gradebook I have a group of assignments that are not graded. The individual assignments don't show up in the gradebook, but the assignment group does. There will NEVER be a grade for anything in this group, be...	02-13-2022	309	0
New color palette on Canvas The new release on Canvas has a new background color palette. I would like to add custom colors to this palette; I do not like the new choices; they are too dark. Is it possible to do this? Image bel...	03-09-2021	1453	0
Canvas role that allows access to role call attendance but denies access to grades I have asked my institution's Canvas team this question, and their answer contradicts what I have found for myself on this Canvas Community site, so I'll go ahead and outline what I would like to do,...	01-23-2020	391	0
delete 'imported assignments' column in gradebook For some reason my Canvas site has a column for "imported assignments" in the gradebook. I have no imported assignments. How can I get rid of this column? where did it come from?	01-15-2020	1778	1
Embed CSS in Canvas page? I use a fair amount of inline CSS to visually format the materials for my courses. One frustration I have is that I cannot use external or embedded styles to do this more efficiently: I have to micro...	09-17-2019	5260	13
ungraded activity: how to create one I have "assignments" that are not graded and I do not want them in the grade book. I have searched for how to create something that will show up in a students "to do" stream, but not require a submis...	09-13-2019	646	1

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