{"id":3514,"date":"2016-12-16T18:12:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T02:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:22:31","slug":"you-know-youre-working-in-canvas-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/you-know-youre-working-in-canvas-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You know you&#8217;re working in Canvas when&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You start changing the names of assignment<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3520 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canvasps-1.png?resize=242%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"canvasps\" width=\"242\" height=\"40\"\/>s to things like &#8220;L1&#8221; so you can squeeze the column smaller in the gradebook.<\/p>\n<p>You keep looking for the arrow button on the toolbar because there&#8217;s so little available.<\/p>\n<p>You just lost 95% of the custom class syllabus page because you tried to comment out everything after the first week.<\/p>\n<p>You check the boxes on the Import Content page in slow motion because last&nbsp;time you wiped out the whole course.<\/p>\n<p>You search all over the site for the section that lets you allow students to upload files, then find it as an inconspicuous link at the very bottom of the main Settings page.<\/p>\n<p>You look for published images to steal instead of uploading your own because putting in a URL is so much easier than trying to upload, find and embed an image file.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3518 size-full\" style=\"margin-top:13px;margin-bottom:13px;margin-left:13px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canvaslinks.png?resize=253%2C253&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"canvaslinks\" width=\"253\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canvaslinks.png?w=253&amp;ssl=1 253w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canvaslinks.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canvaslinks.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your idea of hell becomes a place where you&#8217;re faced with a list of dark green hyperlinks.<\/p>\n<p>You stop allowing revisions of anything in a forum because SpeedGrader makes finding them impossible.<\/p>\n<p>You give up on the idea of trying to link to a specific post in a forum because it&#8217;s too complicated.<\/p>\n<p>You get an eye doctor appointment to deal with not being able to see the blue &#8220;unread&#8221; dots in the forums.<\/p>\n<p>You spend time on support with your ISP trying to figure out how to create secure web pages so they can be embedded, only to find that the javascript you have on that page won&#8217;t work when embedded anyway.<\/p>\n<p>You give up trying to embed SSL web pages and let everything link out.<\/p>\n<p>You get a bad sprain from overusing the scroll wheel.<\/p>\n<p>You start creating things inside the system even though you know better.<\/p>\n<p>You think of the tasks of your life in terms of &#8220;Previous&#8221; and &#8220;Next&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3519\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canvasnext-1.png?resize=78%2C47&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"canvasnext\" width=\"78\" height=\"47\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You start changing the names of assignments to things like &#8220;L1&#8221; so you can squeeze the column smaller in the gradebook. 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