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- Posted Re: Post announcements in multiple courses at once on Idea Conversations. 09-28-2020 10:05 PM
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09-28-2020
10:05 PM
Seriously. Please add this as a feature. Soon. I had serious work that needed done today, along the lines of grading and such and wasted 15 minutes posting and then updating the same four announcements to four classes, which is ridiculous. Really glad I spent 12 years of my life in school and invested a minor to moderate mansion in student loans so that I could spend 40% of my time cutting, pasting and uploading redundant information into the LMS... There has to be an easier solution. It's just a secure, interconnected database, not the space shuttle. Appreciate the RSS solution from @kvjansen above. Could also keep and push out articles more efficiently in this manner, most likely. Will be looking into this. Appreciate everyone's creative angles. I'll go digging in the GitHub repository for an out of the box solution when I have time, but with permissions/sandboxes as they are, I'm not yet envisioning how that might work as an API, but I bet there's a work-around that's at least less mind-numbing than cutting and pasting multiple times. I don't mean to be exceedingly grumpy about these things, but the workload has quadrupled since we've committed to making remote learning as exciting and invested and interactive as in-person classes (as it SHOULD be!). Any extra ounce of energy I have needs to go into finding new, better ways to promote engagement with my students and ensuring their progress, not wasting valuable time cutting and pasting.
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07-20-2020
12:46 PM
This happened to me this week - Page was clearly published under "PAGES" Page was clearly published in the proper "MODULE" Page was NOT visible in the "STUDENT VIEW" After reading this post, I checked the "Mastery Path" tick boxes, both were checked. I can very nearly guarantee you I DID NOT EVER check the "Mastery Path" box on either of the pages that magically disappeared from my students' view, including their "Week in Review Checklist" for the first week of a condensed 5-week class. It was not an imported page. While I imported some content from a spring course, I created this (invisible to students) page specifically for this course. This is an important document to go AWOL at the end of Week One when our class moves at the speed of sound. I don't use mastery paths and have no reason to enable the setting, especially for this course, a writing course. Is it possible there's some default setting elsewhere in Canvas that causes the page to auto-populate "Add to Mastery Paths"? NOTE: I run APIs for discussion collation and user analytics, but theoretically, those operate "outside the sandbox." Wanted to disclose use of APIs in case that's a common denominator here? Please don't take my APIs away, though. They've saved my sanity. Mostly. I would MUCH rather double-check the MP boxes than aggregate/collate course access and discussion data for 100 students by hand. Canvas is always welcome to escalate those feature requests (that were available in Blackboard) so I don't have to run APIs. EDITED TO ADD - NOT GROUSING AT THIS POSTER, GROUSING AT CANVAS, JUST ADDING A "ME, TOO!" TO THE POST ABOVE.
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