Canvas Updates and Other Tidbits

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1 Canvas Updates and Other Tidbits

2 General Notations Website is elearning.ufl.edu Our hours are Monday through Friday 8 to 5 Requesting a course shell form is found at elearning.ufl.edu > Instructor Help > Instructor e- Learning Course Request > click hyperlink on page called Instructor e-learning Course Request or helpdesk.ufl.edu > e-learning > Instructor e-learning Course Request > click hyperlink on page called Instructor e-learning Course Request

3 Update 8/27/2016 Found at elearning.ufl.edu under Archived Announcements You can add an image to your course listing on the dashboard Upload image in course details

4 All links are indicated with underlines When an event has been created in Calendar, it can be moved from one calendar to another calendar using Edit

5 Talking to Blindside networks about how to add stenographers to conference. They also need volunteers to use closed caption and give them feedback Conferences updates Live captioning a stenographer can enter captions in one or more languages need a separate stenographer for each language Under layout manager stenographer chooses closed caption, chooses language, and takes ownership Student choses closed captions from layout manager Captions are subtitles in recording

6 Conferences updates Breakout rooms Under gear icon, choose breakout rooms Set number of rooms and who goes in them Set time limit and even to record the breakout session Then click start Students are prompted to join breakout room A new room will open in new tab They need to join their audio in the breakout room Instructor then closes the breakout rooms Rejoin audio in main conference

7 Conferences updates Better desktop sharing still need java installed though When you click start, it should prompt you to open with java Then ask you to run application Can pause and restart screen sharing

8 Conference updates No longer restricted to Firefox (when desktop sharing is desired) as it works fine in Chrome Useful videos for big blue button updates -

9 Layout looks a bit different in assignments, conferences, modules, and quizzes

10 Wikipages now says pages in the sidebar when linking on pages or assignments Keyboard shortcut icon is now a keyboard in edit

11 Update 9/17/2016 Found at elearning.ufl.edu under Announcements Student s view of Attendance Accessed via grades can be seen only after first attendance event is recorded

12 Gradebook Excessive points alert Occurs when 50% above the total possible points or when an extra digit is entered (e.g. 500 instead of 50) or when a negative value is entered Does not happen in excused assignments or those assigned no points

13 Speedgrader Excessive points alert Occurs when 50% above the total possible points or when an extra digit is entered (e.g. 500 instead of 50)

14 Moderate Quiz search filter by name

15 MathMan integration designed to improve LaTeX images generated by the Rich Content Editor equation editor LaTeX image is rendered as an SVG image instead of a GIF or PNG, which allows images to render more consistently and improves image accessibility for all users Found under π in rich content editor According to canvas, it will be implemented over time we do not know when it will go live for us Will keep you posted!

16 Tidbits As of now, when an instructor gets an from student in canvas, checks it in outlook, attaches a file to the reply in outlook, and sends back to student in canvas, the attachment is stripped from the This has been moved up to pressing concern for engineers Will keep you posted

17 Tidbits Crocodoc issues in Firefox Issue is with Firefox not Canvas

18 Tidbits If you are using the mediasite app to embed videos, they do not play in canvas app Supply the direct link to video as well for app users Embedded videos will play if tablet/phone users view in a browser not the app Text in myufl for TA grading changed to TA grading only Hopefully to reduce confusion Other e-learning tips can be found at /e-learning-tips/

19 Tidbits Upload file working again!

20 Contacts e-learning Support Give us a call between 8am-5pm Monday-Friday , option 3 Message Us at Submit a ticket at

21 Questions?