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It is with great pleasure that I can confirm Cidi Labs Australia in conjunction with the Parramatta Catholic Diocese will host the inaugural Cidi Labs User Group Meeting on 18th May 2022. This FREE event will unite Australian users across all sectors to share their stories, network and to participate in sessions. The day will offer an opportunity for Sydney based people to join us in person and those who cannot be in Sydney to participate virtually.  Our plan is to take this event to other cities later in the year.  The link below provides information about the program and venue details. Select the register button and complete the form to secure your place. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cidi-labs-australia-usergroup-tickets-330372251297 The APAC team looks forward to seeing you on the 18th May. Please pass this on to peers across and beyond the Diocese as this event is all about collaboration and networking, it will be the first opportunity for years to connect with peer leaders on similar journeys. ... View more

At CEDP we are breaking up the competency task based on when content is delivered, the VET team were concerned about the extraction of these on the platform.    A school of ours separated the task as we intend too, however they also asked students to paste all their answers into one document...something we want to avoid...double handling.   For our compliance purposes from a CEDP perspective for Validation, we need to be able to select random students and look through their work samples...this is they had students submit it as a separate document.   Is there a better way than what has been described above or Can Canvas automatically create folders and extract their reponses (questions and structured activities) into sub-folders (Task 1, 2, etc)? ... View more

At Catholic Education Parramatta we are heavily reliant on our Google suite for resources, this is largely problematic due to our Google drive restrictions put in place by non-Canvas IT administrators. Are there any Canvas users out there that is having a pleasant experience utilising Google and Canvas that we could learn from? Big issues we face include: Google LTI 1.3 doesn't allow access to shared drives, embeds a doc while providing a copy and doesn't allow for uses to collaborate on (as per a typical shared Google doc). Google Assignment creates copies of files for all enrolees of a course - not the explicit section assigned Teachers constantly supplying links to documents that students cannot access due to alternate domains any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Most of our adopting schools are coming across from Google classroom so the clunkiness of the above isn't exactly greeted with open arms... ... View more