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Hello Instructure Accessibility team and community, We’re sharing feedback on behalf of faculty at a large public university regarding recent changes to the SpeedGrader rubric interface, particularly as they relate to accessibility, grading accuracy, and repetitive motion. Multiple instructors are reporting the following…
Hi Canvas community, I've built a free, open-source Chrome extension called AssisT that works natively on Canvas without any admin configuration - students install it themselves from the Chrome Web Store and it auto-activates on *.instructure.com pages. What it adds: Text-to-speech with word-by-word synchronized…
With the end of the semester upon us, I'm already thinking of next fall. We spend a lot of time talking about how to start strong at the beginning of a semester or term, but really we lay the groundwork for that now…in the final weeks of our current term. I'm crowdsourcing from the community: What specific steps do you…
Hi, and thanks in advance for any guidance / suggestions. I am at a technical college, working in the Precision Machining program. Our students need to interpret blueprints and engineering drawings for all program courses; students interpret geometric relationships, dimensions, tolerances, as well as other information……
Hello Canvas Community, My name is Daniel Fontaine and I work as the Accessibilty Lead for something called the "San Francisco Bay Area Region Network", which is a business construct of all the business services for SF State, Sonoma State, and CSU East Bay. I've worked in digital accessibility for over a decade, primarily…
Hello Accessibility Community, I am an instructor of Software Application Design and Development at McHenry County College with 26 years of teaching experience. As we approach the April 2026 ADA deadline, I am working on an open-source project to help automate the remediation of complex Canvas content. I am looking for…
We've enabled the Ignite AI feature for the accessibility checker, but I get an error message consistently across courses. Has anyone managed to successfully use this tool?
Hello! I'm new to Canvas as of Spring Semester 2026 and I am curious if there is a key detailing the meaning of various icons that present next to assignments. The 3 I see most often are (a) a green circle with a stick figure in it: (b) what looks like a rocket heading north east: and (c ) a piece of paper with a pencil on…
Hello Everybody!!! I'm new here! :) How do you create a meeting with your class group in Canvas? When I attempt to compose a message, I select the course and then choose “Student Group,” but the only option that appears is a “Back” button with an arrow. No student names or group members appear for me to contact.
Sorry for the MS paint editing but I'm busy working my way through all my course content to remove the font-family from everything, because we have the dyslexics. I had set "Consolas, mono-space, sans-serif" to suit the vibe of my subject matter, but accessibility overrides… just not automatically via account settings.
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