Is it possible to convert a PDF in Canvas to an editable word document?
You can't convert a PDF from within Canvas that I'm aware of, but if you download it to your computer you can convert the file with Microsoft Word by right clicking on the PDF file and selecting the "Open With..." option that will give you the option to open the file into Word and convert it that way. Note that these steps are mostly for Windows PCs, it may be a similar process on a Mac, but I'm not sure though.
The Deploy Notes for yesterday showed that IgniteAI translations for Discussions, Announcements and Inbox were supposed to be Disabled/Locked, but there is an "Enable Translation" button available in our courses today. I'm the Canvas admin at our university, and I see that it is Disabled in the Feature Options Setting, so…
With the new SpeedGrader UI, we are seeing student names appear in the page title even when the “Hide student names” setting is enabled. When using Classic Quizzes, there is no option within the quiz settings to enable anonymous grading, so we rely on instructors using the hide student names setting in SpeedGrader to…
Speedgrader chaning file name when being downloaded. Speedgrader: When downloading a submitted assignment, the file name is being changed to an unrecognizable name — (Student's actual name was part of the file name — changed for privacy.) Ideas???
We are all familiar with the standard Course Calendar, where assignment due dates are automatically added. However, at my institution, we structure our assignments as Challenges that develop over a period of time, rather than just a single deadline. Currently, the calendar only highlights the "end point." It would be a…
The current placement of the "Submit" button creates a "slip" in user behavior where habit-clicking "Next" leads to an accidental final submission. I think Canvas could easily fix this by: Moving the Submit button away from the navigation buttons (maybe above the question instead of below it) and/or Adding a "Confirm…
