Module 2 Professional Learning Communities - Canvas LMS Community

For this assignment (Module 2) I selected the Canvas LMS Community to participate in as it directly correlates to my job as an Instructional Technologist at UAB. For my participation, I joined conversations and answered questions in the community's Q&A. I have provided links to each question I answered or followed up on during my participation, which is ongoing. The Canvas LMS Community provides feedback and support for users of the Canvas Learning Management System that many institutions have in place.

Q:I teach JHS Orchestra and have approx. 200 students. We are trying to have students upload videos of their playing as an assignment. Students with iPhones (which is most of them) keep getting an error message (see attached). I checked to make sure their phone permissions were set to allow Canvas to access their files. Android phones were also getting an error message. We've wasted too much class-time trying to troubleshoot.  Our administrator told us we are the only school experiencing this issue. Is anyone else out there experiencing similar issues with video uploads? Any help/input would be much appreciated! 
https://community.canvaslms.com/message/161676-re-error-message-when-students-are-uploading-video?commentID=161676#comment-161676

Q: Can I delete a student's submission from Canvas?
https://community.canvaslms.com/message/161678-re-delete?commentID=161678#comment-161678

Q:Can I upload all the answers to a quiz in an Excel spreadsheet?  
https://community.canvaslms.com/thread/39542-can-i-upload-quiz-answers-into-an-excel-spreadsheet

Q:We turned on the new gradebook and several of our instructors are seeing the Visibility icon active for select courses. It's the orange eyeball icon, BTW.

They didn't turn off grades for those assignment, so what setting triggers that function to be turned on? Is it something in the way the assignment was created?

Q:We have been having an issue with an assignment's grades staying hidden. We enabled "Hide Grades" yesterday and then today the grades were visible, even though nobody changed this setting.
The crossed out eye is on the assignment in the grading center.
Any feedback would be helpful.

Thank you.



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