My student noticed that an Image of a lock appears on one of the quizzes I created for class. It has to do with an embedded image on screen. It shows up fine on the my teachers preview, but not on the students.
Anyone have a quick fix for this? TIA
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Anthony, you mention that one of your students sees the lock image, but I suspect that all of your students are seeing it. Normally that occurs because you have linked to an image that resides in a place you have permission to view, but your students don't. For example, the image might reside in the course files of a previous course, or in your My Files space. You have permission to see that image, so it looks fine to you, but your students don't have permission to view the previous course or your personal files, so they will see the lock.
The quick fix is to upload the file into the same course that contains the quiz, and edit the quiz question to repair the link so that the image now links to the image in the course files. Remember to save your quiz question and your quiz after making these changes.
Only students who have not yet attempted the quiz will see the updated version of the quiz, so you will need to moderate the quiz to give students who have already seen the lock image and were unable to answer the question an extra attempt, as described in Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts?
Alternatively, the image file might have had a restriction placed on it, or it might be unpublished. Check the files space for the cloud icon that appears next to the image file, as described in How do I restrict files and folders to students in Canvas?
Thank you Stefanie! Once again you saved the day. We had a similar issue where every assignment was getting a giant padlock icon. At first glance all the images were published inside of Files but, we missed the entire folder the images resided in wasn't published. More frustrating student view would actually display the images.
I'm sure this will be another "thanks for the request" that will continue without response for several years...but here goes. Why can't the STUDENT VIEW show the same as my students would view it? They get an image lock, the STUDENT VIEW doesn't...so what is the point in having the STUDENT VIEW? Everything is set up...looks great...then all students get locks on images, despite following the "directions" above. Can we get the STUDENT VIEW to resemble the VIEW students will have, or is that too crazy a concept? I prefer not waiting until they're actually taking the test to find out images are locked. Canvas, please make the STUDENT VIEW actually look like the STUDENT VIEW. Please?
Kurt, the optimal place to provide this feedback is in the comments section of "Real" Student View —and while you're there, add your vote to it as well.
Stefanie, will it really make a difference? That's the answer we always get...people have been asking for changes for YEARS, and all I see is "post it somewhere else and let's vote!" The thread to which you're referring is more than 2 years old and nothing has been done. So what's really the point Stephanie? I guess I'm venting, since that's really all I can do; nothing will change.
Kurt, we are always striving to improve not only our product but also our process. The idea to which I linked will be one of those addressed as part of Adaptation: Feature Idea Process Changes
I know what you mean, Kurt! I've started saying that the Canvas Community is where good ideas go to die. In my opinion the idea of "Share your idea here and let's vote!" is not a good way to improve Canvas. It's a reactive process, not a proactive process.
Anthony, you mention that one of your students sees the lock image, but I suspect that all of your students are seeing it. Normally that occurs because you have linked to an image that resides in a place you have permission to view, but your students don't. For example, the image might reside in the course files of a previous course, or in your My Files space. You have permission to see that image, so it looks fine to you, but your students don't have permission to view the previous course or your personal files, so they will see the lock.
The quick fix is to upload the file into the same course that contains the quiz, and edit the quiz question to repair the link so that the image now links to the image in the course files. Remember to save your quiz question and your quiz after making these changes.
Only students who have not yet attempted the quiz will see the updated version of the quiz, so you will need to moderate the quiz to give students who have already seen the lock image and were unable to answer the question an extra attempt, as described in Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts?
Alternatively, the image file might have had a restriction placed on it, or it might be unpublished. Check the files space for the cloud icon that appears next to the image file, as described in How do I restrict files and folders to students in Canvas?