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Rob, I love Canvas Betterizer and had the Chrome extension installed until our school district, out of concern for student privacy, deactivated all Chrome extensions.  The extensions can be reactivated if the developer signs a Digital Privacy Agreement, or DPA.  If I have understood our technical services department correctly, they attempted to contact you about signing a DPA but received no response. Is there a best way to contact you? Thank you!!!! ... View more

I believe our district Canvas administrator has opened a support ticket.  I posted here so others encountering the same problem will be aware of what I found. I have no idea how to open a support ticket, or if that is even a possibility because I am not an administrator 🙂 ... View more

Wondering if there is any progress on this request.  I am somewhat in shock that this was not one of the original features of student annotations. ... View more

  How do I review the submission history? The link to view the submission history is visible in the upper right corner and is in a location similar to the current interface. The drop down box being centered is well situated for quickly moving between attempts. The number of attempts is directly above the availability dates but because the font is similar to the due date I overlooked the number of attempts several times.  Would it work better if it was directly above the drop down box for choosing the attempt to view? Does the history page show me everything that I would care about? A visual cue for new comments on an attempt might be nice.  Maybe something general near the drop down box that new comments are available and then when the drop down box is opened there is a visual cue of some kind indicating for which attempt there is a comment? Overall I love how it looks.  I am unfamiliar with the beta environment, is it possible for me to view this in the beta environment and play with it? ... View more

The assign-to feature is challenging to use if there are selected students (only part of the students are receiving the assignment) within a section that need an assignment. Additionally, it is cumbersome to modify due dates, available from, and until (these are buried at the bottom of the assignments page). Background: Our sections are created and managed by our SIS.  Teachers do not have the ability to create and manage their own sections (which, as near as I can tell from what I have seen on Canvas Community is pretty common).  Additionally, sections lack the fluidity of the day-to-day management needed by some teachers.  For example, I am an elementary teacher.  On any given day, I have, at minimum, the following using assignments in my Canvas course, and each of these may have a different assignment or due date: Some students that are 100% online for the entire term Others that are sometimes face-to-face and sometimes online (because of the pandemic they may be face-to-face unless there is a necessary quarantine or isolation at their home) Students that are 100% face-to-face All of this means a very quick and fluid solution for giving assignments is needed that is separate from sections.  Something that would allow teachers to very quickly modify who will and who will not be given an assignment, along with separate due, available from, and available until dates. Proposed improvement: Choose a section that will be given the assignment When the section is selected, the "Assign To" defaults to everyone in the section (it already does this), but there is a button to click that opens a pop-up window that has a section selector at the top and checkbox list of the students filtered by the section. In the pop-up window, there are buttons to select all students and deselect all students.  The teacher can also check the boxes next to the names of individual students within the section to whom they would like to give the assignment. Click "Okay" and the "Assign To" box populates with the selected students.  You are then asked if you would like to give the assignment to students in other sections or give other students in the same section a different due date (buttons to click).  If you click yes, then the process is repeated for another section (instead of having to click "+Add" at the bottom"). As part of the pop-up the due, available from, and until settings could also be modified It would be over-the-top amazing if this were implemented AND "Assign-to" were added to the context menu on the assignment page or the module page.  Instead of opening the entire assignment to change who it is assigned to; a teacher clicks the kabob menu, chooses "Assign To" and only the "Assign To" dialog opens. This improved "Assign To" could include the ability to more quickly and easily change due, available from and available until dates.  (Right now all of this is at the bottom of the assignment page, so teachers have to open the page and then navigate to the bottom to make changes.  It would be awesome to go straight to that section and be able to quickly make modifications.) Result: The Everyone feature is still the default. Teachers wanting to give the assignment to all except a few students can "Select All" and then un-check the few students the assignment is not assigned to. Teachers wanting to give the assignment only a few students can select those few students. The assign-to, including dates (which for many teachers is the most edited part of any assignment) become more easily accessible and faster to modify. This might be overselling, but perhaps this would even lead to a better world 🙂 ... View more

With Canvas increasingly being used in elementary schools as part of a mixed learning environment (some student fully online, others full face-to-face) the ability to quickly and easily assign to a few students or to all except a few students would be incredibly helpful. ... View more