Can you paste into announcements and maintain your formatting?
I see how to undo formatting in Announcements but not how to paste with my original formats.
Can you paste into announcements and maintain your formatting?
I see how to undo formatting in Announcements but not how to paste with my original formats.
This is not a good feature of Canvas!!!!
I reuse many announcements over semesters and to have to retype them in Canvas is tedious and time consuming.
Sometimes I will screen capture and use, but then you have to load it into Canvas and links don’t work.
I hope this is something Canvas might change.
Rhonda.
Hi Rhonda,
If you re-use many announcements, could you import the content from previous courses into your current courses using the How do I select specific content as part of a course import? guide?
I have dates in my announcements that change, but I guess I can type those and just insert the rest of the announcement.
Thanks for the help,
Rhonda
Rhonda MacLeod
Professor in Mathematics
Mathematics Department
Tallahassee Community College
macleodr@tcc.fl.edu<mailto:macleodr@tcc.fl.edu>
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You can also use Blueprint courses if not much of your content will change from your Master or Blueprint course and your Live course! See more on that in the How do I enable a course as a blueprint course as an admin? as well as Ken's wonderful blog Tips for Designing and Maintaining Blueprint Courses.
Rhonda MacLeod, please consider adding your voice to this feature request: Publish and Unpublish Announcements.
Hello there, Rhonda MacLeod...
As I was reviewing older questions here in the Canvas Community, I noticed that there hasn't been any new activity in this one since the end of September 2017. In reviewing the above conversation, it looks like you've gotten some good feedback from members of the Community. Do you feel that there is one "Correct" answer that you could mark above? Are there any outstanding questions you have yet as it relates to your initial question? Please feel free to post below if you are still looking for help from Community members. For now, I am going to mark your question as "Assumed Answered" because there hasn't been any new activity in this thread for a few months. However, this won't prevent you or others from posting additional questions or comments below. I hope that's alright with you, Rhonda. Looking forward to hearing back from you soon!
Hi Rhonda MacLeod
I am guessing you are asking about pasting text from MS Word into an announcement, and unfortunately the answer is "no". Actually, pasting from any word-processor is challenging in Canvas, because they all have formatting codes in the background that may or may not be compatible with Canvas.
I have just about given up on even trying, except for short excerpts. I either create the text natively in Canvas, or upload as file.
What does work, if you are skilled in this manner, is to save the Word doc as an HTML file, copy the HTML code, and paste that into the HTML Editor in Canvas. Even then some cleanup is required, but it is usually very minimal.
I hope this helps,
Kelley