A curated list of CanvasLMS Community and Open Source contributions.
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Canvas GuidesThe complete list of guides for all users and roles, from Student to Parent, and everyone in between
I spoke with Stefanie about this awhile back when I first put this on my todo list. Since the list doesn't require 'code', and can go beyond code. I've included some items which are just discussions, theory, documentation, and courses. The reason for choosing Meta Community, was that anyone in the community (Meta Community Group) can edit the doc, while others (eg. Instructional Designers, Admins), might not be in the Developer Group.
This is not my document, I am not the maintainer. More on that here https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-17356
OK, that makes sense to me. Thanks!
Hi, A lot of the links in the Canvas Admin section don't work! 🙂
HI @b_w_reid I suspect they may be victims of moving to a new community platform. Hopefully they will be restored soon.
@robotcars I am extremely humbled that a set of my contributions made it to your list. When Canvas Data 2 comes out I'll be sure to contribute entries using that schema.
@scottdennis - as the following resources may still be of value to someone, do you supposed the blog entries below can be brought over from the prior community? The links below are from the Tableau section above. I entered *** next to the two that are more complex where the detailed explanation is useful. These have a high potential of helping others.
The Early Warning Report -
Hi Jeff,
Unfortunately we still had access to the old site from August 7th when we flipped the switch until Jan 1st but then our platform provider took down the old Jive site and we no longer have a way to go back in and grab content. Hopefully Robert and folks like him who still have useful content like this will be willing and able to share again.
@Jeff_F I'm extremely grateful for your contributions. I'd never used Tableau before tinkering with Canvas Data, your posts were enormously helpful in getting started.
When CanvasData2 is out, maybe we can run a points challenge to get people to recontribute key concepts with the new schema.
This entire document needs to be updated and curated for what survived the migration or had the URL that changed.
@scottdennis I can't see permissions in the Edit option as with Jive. Is this document still editable to anyone in the MetaCommunity group? Anyone should be able to edit this.
Hey @robotcars
Just to be sure I understand correctly, you would like for anyone who joins the Community Users Group (we changed it from Meta because that named confused some people as to the group's purpose) so be able to edit this resource, correct?
Hi @scottdennis,
Anyone in the community really, unless you have concerns. In Jive the only option was to allow members of this group to edit this thread. However that can be done in Khoros works for me. The document should be edited and curated by the community as it creates and finds resources/answers/solutions that need a lasting bookmark and a place for discovering those contributions.
Looking at options now...
We are a new Canvas client and this looks like a wonderful resource that was painstakingly put together by many superstar users/admins. It is a terrible terrible shame that the links are all broken. From what I'm reading above it appears to be due to Canvas moving the community platform. How awful they did not bring this valuable content over.
Anyone actively using Materia? I'm extremely excited about implementing it, but our ITS department was having a tough time working through the existing documentation.
@rseilham - Do you know of anyone on the team at UCF who might be able to support wide adoption, or a contact I can put my IT team in touch with?
@cgaudreau senior developer here overseeing the Materia team at UCF - We've helped other schools get up and running with Materia, we'll do what we can to help you get started. We'd like to hear more about what trouble they're having so we can improve that process too.
You can reach out to me, ian at ucf dot edu, add a question on the github repo (https://github.com/ucfopen/Materia/discussions/categories/q-a), or join our Slack team (link in readme https://github.com/ucfopen/Materia)
Thank you, @iturgeon. I'll reach out via email shortly. Appreciate it!
I cannot access any of these links above. It gives me an error message that the page could not be found.
Could someone fix that for us?
This list was called out in the March 2021 Account Services Newsletter from Instructure CSMs. Excellent publicity for a marvelous resource!
I think most of these articles are migrated, the links just changed. I have been planning to go through and search each article/topic and relink, but it's a chore.
Edit:
@scottdennis I tried to update about 12 links just now and got this error: Message cannot exceed 30,000 characters.
Can this be adjusted with Khoros, or do i need to split this into individual articles by topic?
I'm not sure, @robotcars but I will ask.
Thanks @scottdennis It's currently just over 50,000 characters, but I can't edit.
Hi Robert,
How about now? We increased the limit so you should now be able to edit.
Scott,
Got the same 30,000 limit after updating all the links in the Admin section.
Oh, no! We set the limit for that group but now I am wondering if we need to do something additional for existing content? I will ask.
Hi @scottdennis, Still can't edit this because it exceeds 30,000 characters.
