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james_neill
James Neill
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May 15, 2017 7:15:17 PM
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13
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Passionate user of learning management systems and innovative educational design. Open academic - mostly use Wikiversity, Google Drive, and social network sites. University of Canberra switched to Canvas from Moodle in 2018. Previously used WebCT. Full-time teaching-research academic in psychology. Contact - jtneill or james neill on X, Instagram, YouTube

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What worked for me: Settings - Navigation - move Announcements from top section to bottom section and Save.Settings - Navigation - move Announcements from bottom section to top section and Save.
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Thanks @Ron_Bowman.Yes students are seeing "T" as their Score for a text submission assignment for which I've posted all grades, but their individual submission hasn't yet been gra...
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+1 request to allow HTML comments. The links to the whitelist HTML pages in this thread are broken. @JillRho's workaround works. 
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I like a larger indent, so use: <p style="margin-left: 36px; text-indent: -36px;">Bacon ipsum dolor...</p>  
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Wow @chriscas , OK, this is GOOD news. I am definitely only seeing first name, so have contacted local admins to request last names also be shown. Thank-you very much.PS I've marked your respo...
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Most Recent Posts

Wow @chriscas , OK, this is GOOD news. I am definitely only seeing first name, so have contacted local admins to request last names also be shown. Thank-you very much.PS I've marked your respo...
Aug 30, 2024 6:43:24 PM
This is not a solution—it is a cumbersome workaround—and should not be marked as such.Rather, it is poor UX that Canvas messages do not display the sender's last name.
Aug 30, 2024 2:57:11 PM
Problem statement: Every discussion email notification contains the hyperlinked text: "Click here to join the conversation ". There is an extra space at the end of the text which is also hyper...
Feb 28, 2024 1:39:57 PM
Thanks @Ron_Bowman.Yes students are seeing "T" as their Score for a text submission assignment for which I've posted all grades, but their individual submission hasn't yet been gra...
Sep 25, 2022 10:23:25 PM
Thanks very much @Chris_Hofer - it helps to know that "T" stands for text submission [which hasn't been graded yet].However, as noted in the discussion for that post, the official list...
Sep 25, 2022 2:51:05 PM

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