Accessibility Tips: The Scary Truth About Scanned PDFs
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip focuses on scanned PDFs – why you shouldn’t use them and how to find alternative solutions. Please note that…
Accessibility Tips: Kaltura Makes "Kaptioning" Easy
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview Create, Caption, and Share Your Videos with Kaltura This tip focuses on Kaltura. Kaltura is a Canvas tool that makes i…
Accessibility Tips: Clean Up Your Ally Score with TidyUP
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip describes how to use TidyUP. TidyUP is a content cleanup tool for Canvas courses that identifies potentially…
Accessibility Tips: Converting Documents and PowerPoints to PDFs
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip focuses on converting your documents and PowerPoints to PDFs. PDFs are often the preferred document type for …
Accessibility Tips: Fix Inaccessible Content with Built-in Canvas Tools
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip demonstrates how to use Canvas's built-in accessibility tools. These simple and efficient tools can help you…
Annoto Personal Notes
Annoto Personal Notes is a feature that allows students or instructors to make time-tagged notes while watching videos. These notes are visible only to the individual who made them and help link notes to a particular part of a video for easy reference. You can use your personal notes to summarize the video, reflect …
Canvas Grade Distribution
Can students view their grade distribution in a Canvas course? Instructors can allow students to view their grade distribution for assignments by deselecting the Hide grade distribution graphs from students option in their Course settings . Conversely, by selecting that same box, you can hide the grade distributi…
Microsoft Immersive Reader in Canvas
Navigate this article : * Text Preferences * Grammar Options * Reading Preferences Microsoft Immersive Reader is an accessibility and reading experience tool integrated into Canvas. The tool can be used to help students read and understand course pages, assignment instructions, and the syllabus. It is not availab…
How to update modules and other resources imported from Canvas Commons
If you've ever imported modules (like the FSU Emergency Module or the FSU Course Evaluation Module ) into your course site from Canvas Commons, you may want to know how to update them with the latest information. Follow these steps to check for, read about, and import updates available to Canvas Commons resources …
How do I hold virtual office hours?
Though we have both Canvas Conferences and Zoom web-conferencing tools available at FSU, we strongly recommend using Zoom for virtual office hours because it is well suited to both of the meeting types in this support article. Facilitating regular, scheduled office hours that all students can join This type of …
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11/22/2024: Canvas Outage 500 Page Error [RESOLVED] Resolved [Posted 11/22/2024 at 1:29 pm ET] At 12:43 pm on 11/22/2024 Instructure reports the incident has been resolved. For the full timeline of the error, please see the Canvas System Status Page. Monitoring At 12:34 pm on 11/22/2024 A fix has been implemented and Instructure is monitoring the results. For the full timeline of the error, please see the Canvas System Status Page. Investigating [Posted 11/22/2024 at 12:24 pm ET] At 12:15 pm on 11/22/2024 Canvas has experienced an outage of service. Some users may be encountering 500 page errors in Canvas. Instructure is currently investigating the issue. For the full timeline of the error, please see the Canvas System Status Page.
11/20/2024: Hypothes.is Scheduled Maintenance and Outage Saturday Pending [Posted 11/20/2024 at 2:04 pm ET] Saturday, November 30th from 3:00 to 5:00 am ET Hypothes.is At 3:00 to 5:00 am ET on Saturday, 11/30/2024, Hypthes.is will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance. During this time, the platform will be unavailable.
11/19/2024: Some Canvas Users Experiencing a 500 Error [RESOLVED] Resolved [Posted 11/18/2024 at 9:55 pm ET] At 9:55 pm on 11/18/2024 Canvas reported the situation has been fully resolved. For the full timeline of the error, please see the Canvas System Status Page. Monitoring [Posted 11/18/2024 at 9:36 pm ET] At 9:36 pm on 11/18/2024 Canvas implemented a fix to the 500 error some United States users were experiencing in Canvas. To ensure the fix was successful they remained monitoring the situation. For the full timeline of the error, please see the Canvas System Status Page. Investigating [Posted 11/18/2024 at 9:06 pm ET] At 9:06 pm on 11/18/2024 Canvas was aware and started investigating a reported error of some United States users experiencing a 500 error while in Canvas. This error seems to have impacted some students by kicking them out of their exams. For the full timeline of the error, please see the Canvas System Status Page.
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