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Reaching out to my fellow Admins: We discovered that a feature we had in the Assignments area to show checkboxes of some common filetypes when teachers opt to restrict file uploads apparently isn't the core Canvas feature that we thought it was. That's relevant because it just broke, and we have no idea where it came…
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…
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…
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 Using the course search before opening the bulk publish dialog will help narrow down the unpublished courses that can be loaded in to review for publishing.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…
Hello, I found a couple of community posts on bulk publishing courses. * This one: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-LMS-Blog/How-to-list-teachers-who-have-published-unpublished-courses/ba-p/264923 Worked until my access to Google Drive was blocked by IT. I've had recent trouble with the script anyway, so I'm…
I recently updated my Canvas LMS Mods (Basic) Chrome extension to provide some new enhancements to the course search and admin flyout menu. In the course search, I have added the following enhancements: * Adding a select menu to search for courses based on their published state (published only, unpublished only, both…
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 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…
Hello All! I've done my best to figure this out using the available resources, but I can't seem to get it to work. I'm attempting to add visual elements around a SCORM object in an assignment (reason: We need to capture whether someone has completed this activity and pass a grade). We have put SCORM objects on other pages…
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