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We have a request from our Education Department to prevent teachers at one of our campuses from being able to leverage the "EX" (excused) grade in the gradebook due to some recurring issues. I know there are ways to hide (not prevent) the elements in the grade details tray and in SpeedGrader, but how would we go about…
This is a user script that provides course readiness and teacher activity reminders based on the configured expectations. Expectations that can be configured include checks for the Syllabus, published state of the course, course dates, assignment due dates, posting announcements, and timely grading. If an expectation is…
We're a really big institution. We have 20+ campuses, each with their locations, all operating as a single institution. A need was identified to be able to record a student's home campus and provide it to LTIs/display it to support staff within Canvas, etc. I couldn't find an existing solution within Canvas so I did a mix…
The recent update to the Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) Chrome extension, provides some new features to enhance the experience when creating/editing rubrics. Drag and Drop Rows The first feature is the ability to drag and drop criteria rows when you are editing a rubric. When you hover over a row, you will be able to click it and…
Hi, We use a third party (LTI) for our syllabus. We want to hide the Canvas version completely. I found an old post that provided some javascript for our theme. That works great for the desktop version, but it does not work for the mobile version. The code is $(document).ready(function(){ $('a.syllabus').hide(); }); The…
Instructors often want to analyze student performance on assignments. Using the gradebook, instructors can analyze overall assignment grades. When using outcomes, instructors and admins have access to reports to analyze those criteria items. However, there isn't a Canvas report at present that makes it easy to analyze…
I have developed a user script that will allow an Account Admin to bulk publish courses from the admin account course search page. Using the course search before opening the bulk publish dialog will help narrow down the unpublished courses that can be loaded in to review for publishing. This will also work on the course…
A new Simple Search feature has been added to the Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) browser extension. This allows a user to search for content within a course or across their enrolled courses. Within a course, Simple Search is added as a link on the course navigation menu. It defaults to the second position on the course navigation…
This post was sort of inspired by a question to the Community - Solved: Clickable Check Boxes in a to-do list - Instructure Community - 606531 (canvaslms.com) asking about Check boxes for a to-do list. My go to list creator is https://interactlist.com/ as it is free and allows embedding in a Canvas page. it also does some…
This is a user script that allows teachers to bulk copy announcements from one of their courses to another course(s). This process will create the announcements as the user using the script so the copied announcements will also show them as the author of the announcement rather than it showing as an unknown author. This…
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