Whom would you recommend as a 3rd Party Service for remediating Adobe Acrobat PDF's?
With the current push for WCAG 2.1 accessibility among higher education institutions, this is a really good question. We use YuJa Panorama to scan, score, and remediate files and pages in our Canvas Environment. It does not work for everything (auto-remediation), but will provide instructions on how to remediate for things that cannot be corrected by the service itself. Pay attention to what is offered from YuJa. If you want the most robust PDF remediation, make sure you pay for the add-ons for PDF remediation. You will be given options.
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…
Has anyone had a chance to try this with a Canvas quiz? Seems it may have a similar effect as ChatGPT Atlas able to provide all the answers to an open Quiz. https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/microsoft_adds_a_sidepane_for/
When you are creating a quiz and/or also reviewing a quiz in Canvas after the class has taken it, the questions aren't numbered so after you get past the first few questions, there is no way to even tell what number you are on. Can someone change that?
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…
