Hacking Canvas Commons for Better Resource Sharing

I appreciate everybody being here spending your last hour of the day with me. My name is Brad Mitchell. Work at Missouri online, known colloquially by my students as Doctor. VM. Let you figure that one out on your own. And I'm here from Columbia, Missouri today to talk about how we use Canvas comments, for better we're sharing.

So really quick, I wanna talk about sort of the con agenda what we're gonna talk through today. Just give you a lot of context about Missouri online as an organization. And throw some numbers at you so you can kind of see, the scale while we're, which we're working. Talk to your famous comments a little bit. Show how it works.

Big part of the presentation to be all the challenges we have in using this. Very imperfect solution, but we do our best to make this work. Sort of the approach we take and there's kind of a walk of all these resources. So, so about Missouri online. So Missouri online is a system wide office.

The University of Missouri system. We have four campuses across the state. We have our flagship in Columbia, Missouri, Missouri, where I am located. We have a campus in Saint Louis, we have a campus in Kansas City. And we have a campus in Rawla, Missouri, if you've ever heard of that.

So our role, you know, we're providing the overall vision for all online courses at four campuses. So really large, reach. Mission, further growth, scale, and excellence. Really wanna focus on growth and scale today. That's what we're gonna talk about.

Just ensuring faculty have all the services you need, the help they need and our services. I just kinda wanna talk about so you get the context where I'm coming from. We have academic technology design services. That's my area, instructional design. Programming coordination, student support, and marketing communication.

So everything we're talking about is sort of from this design services standpoint. So here's some numbers for you just to talk about scale. So we have about seventy thousand students enrolled across the state. It's a lot of students. We have over four thousand faculty that we work with.

We have over three seventy five fully online programs and our online enrollment is thirty three thousand students. So a lot of people spread out across an entire state. So when you think about scale, we're talking about just, you know, making all these resources available to everyone in all these different campuses. And another thing that's really interesting is that we have a single instance of Canvas for all of our campuses. So they go to the one single place, they log in, and then they go to their campus, wherever courses they're enrolled in.

So when you see these four campuses, one thing you'll really notice is they look nothing alike. Not even the fonts, the colors. Nothing is still the same. We can start there as the base. Everything you go up, everything is different on every campus.

We have to always keep this in mind. How can we make this work for everyone on all these different campuses? So I mentioned that, I'm kind of coming from the industrial in instructional design perspective. So the way we approach this and just I think the entire, presentation is kind of thinking like how does everything interconnect? How can we help ease the burden on instructors? And then, you know, we're always thinking how do we put the learner first? So that's kind of what we're thinking about how we're sharing all these resources that we develop in Missouri online and then share them out to our faculty at all of our campuses. So just a little more detail because I have to go this far just so you can where we're coming from. So within design services, we have instructional designers.

Everyone knows what that is. We have a team called media designers. That's my area. Structural designers are doing the things you'd expect, you know, quality assurance, course reviews, design consultations, faculty development and professional development, teaching certification. My team, the media designers were sort of the misfits because we do everything else, that no one else did the instructional designers don't do.

So we're building out courses, full courses, you know, one on one with faculty over in a semester building an entire course. We're creating templates for programs, schools, academic units any level of in that hierarchy you can imagine we're creating templates. We have graphic designers on my team. We have videographers on my team, media producers. We also user user experience design.

We our website, which is a big part of this presentation. We manage our website. Actually, I manage our website. We interact as like story line, rise, learning experience design coding. And now we also have instructional designers on my team who do accessibility and UDL work.

So we just do a lot of stuff. We saw there's like seventy thousand students for campuses. Guess how many media designers are on my team. You got it for. Definitely five because one's a videographer, but he only does video.

He does not have to do anything else, which is great, but he's really, really good at it. So we have four media does doing all this work across all these campuses. So the media designers, my team, we also are in charge of our CSS and JavaScript for for that one instance of canvas for all four campuses. So you can imagine it's a very large CSS file for all of our styles files. We've created an internal style guide.

We manage that. Everything in Canvas comments as Missouri Online branded comes through us, and then our faculty website. Like I said, I manage that as well. So those are all these pieces that we're managing. I just wanna give you kind of a sense of the scale and the small but mighty team we have to do all this.

So we all got together a few years ago as a new organization and we realized, okay, how are we gonna do this with all these campuses, with all these different people, all these different stakeholders? We had to figure out how we effectively, you know, create and share all this content, all these templates across all these different campuses with all these different branding and styles and all that fun stuff. So I talked about, you know, there's lots of good things we did, but it's still a work in progress. But overall, there's a lot of challenges. Doing this. So, I'm gonna kind of organize everything by two things.

Logistical challenges and tech, technology challenges. I just wanted to find these. We all understand what we're about. So logistical is talking about planning, implementing, and coordinating how all these things are working. The technology challenge is just how we apply it and how we make this stuff work to get to the end of sharing this stuff with faculty.

So this is sort of the approach we decided to take. It's a beautiful trifecta of an diagram we have going on here. So we have Canvas Commons, really big piece. Our website, it's a faculty facing website. There's another third big piece.

Second big piece. And the third big piece is all of our style guides and all of these assets that we create. So when we take all these pieces and things are working well, and they harmonize really nicely. In the end, we have happy faculty right here in the middle. And that's the challenge.

That's what we're gonna get. We want to get all this working get to that happy faculty stage. So next Canvas comments, who's not familiar with Canvas comments? Is everyone kind of familiar? No idea like this. Cool. That's great.

So Canvas Commons, real quick TLDR. It's a big repository for stuff. That's what I would say. I use Grand Central Station. We think it was a hub, like a central location.

So, instructor uses the term learning object. So I'm gonna use learning object repository allows users to search for, import, and also share and add resources to Canvas comments. And what's great about it, everything just pulls right into, the LMS really well from Canvas Commons. So plays a crucial role by promoting collaboration. So anybody can go and upload content to Canvas comments.

Anybody can go and download or import something in Canvas comments into your course. So it's all about resource sharing, which is great. So we're talking about sharing resources with faculty. So again, really quick. Searching for things for learning objects, importing things, learning objects into your course.

Canvas, and then sharing these out with others. So the types of content that you'll find in common, there's just a big list here. It's really cool. It's an amazing thing. If you don't have access.

I would highly suggest bugging somebody to get access to it, but all these things, courses, modules, pages, and me going down to videos, audios, images. All sorts of great stuff. Can be uploaded there. We focus on courses, modules, and pages for the most part. But we do do the some of our instructional designers will use it for quizzes or things like that.

So that's sort of the background. We wanna remember, here's our three pieces. We're gonna go through each of these three pieces one by one and we're gonna hopefully end up with happy faculty in the middle. Before we go there, I keep saying challenges, challenges, challenges. There's an old saying that restrictions breed creativity.

I don't know who first said this, but I was curious. So I typed it and said Mark Rosewater, Mark Rosewater is the lead designer of Magic The Gathering. I'm a huge nerd. I've been playing Magic The Gathering for about twenty five So I just thought it was really cool just to sneak this in my presentation. But the quote matters, like restrictions being creativity.

You know, we have a lot of restrictions and a lot of challenges for how we organize and then share all these resources. So we had to get very, very creative with how we do it. So the first thing I want to talk through is Canvas Commons. I'm actually going to hop out of this, and we are gonna drive and see what things look like. Okay.

Everybody can see that. So Canvas Commons lives within Canvas. For the system, it's over in our Fnav. If you click on that, this is what you see. So you'll see here, there's one hundred and twenty two thousand learning objects in Canvas comments that are tagged as undergraduate or graduate.

So that's higher ed content. So we have that turned on by default. If you go over to filter here, there's all sorts of filters you can use. So, you know, everything case through twelve, you can do grades. You can do shared with, just system, which is us.

But anyways, there's a lot of really cool options, but I just wanted to show you, like when I take this off and it's everything, I think we're at two hundred and sixty two thousand. So that's really difficult. How do we have people find our stuff? So the first thing we do, the good what we're gonna do is we're gonna search for Missouri online. You can see here we're we're getting forty results. So that's great.

Most of these forty results are ours, not all of these are our content. But I will get to that. So we're gonna start with the good, the positives where we get to the challenges. The positives are this looks wonderful. It's beautiful.

I think it's really easy to find things once you know to search for Missouri online. It's really easy to find this stuff. So I'm going to hop into an example Let's just do this. This is just an example page. So what's great about it is as as a faculty member, I came in like, oh, I want this page.

This is a resource page for our St. Louis campus. All I have to do is hit this import or download button. And it pulls in all the courses that I'm on. So I can just go find whatever course I want to do, click that go to import.

Done. So super simple, effective. It's really great for getting stuff into a course really quickly and easily. So that's the first thing we do. So we use this just as our main repository for all these learning objects in Canvas.

So they're kind of there, you know, these generic templates. Any faculty, you can go grab it at any time. It's great for that. Another thing we use comments for, and it's really, really fantastic for is hosting, like, branded content for an academic unit, for instance. So I'm gonna use this as an example.

So our Saint Louis campus, their business school, they wanted us to create a template and it had, different landing page, home pages all the different programs, majors within that. So we were able to create this thing and within here, there's always different, landing pages So if I'm teaching finance, I can come over here, hit import. It's gonna pull this into my course with one click, and then I can pick my custom, beautiful. The internet's really slow in the stream. Sorry.

Really nice landing page template and it's right there. So what's great for is like we can create this content. We can put it on commons, and they never had to ask us to get access to it. They just know I go here and I search for this. And they can grab it.

So every semester, when they start a new course, they just go here, grab the content, put it in, and they're ready to go, and they can just start. So those are sort of like the two main ways. Just these kind of generic things we just share and put out there and then these very specific, templates we make for different programs. Or projects. So that's the good.

I'm very high-tech. I have little from the hotel room. We're gonna get to a couple pages of challenges now. So first thing, the only way to find our content here is you have to search for Missouri online. You have to know to search for Missouri online.

If you don't know that, you can find all sorts of stuff. So say I search Missouri. All of a sudden, I have six hundred, and it's gonna be really difficult to find things. So it's just it's very highly specific on how you do this. So as you can see, there's a lot of good stuff here.

But I said there's forty results and not all these are ours. So if I scroll down I have to find it. Here it is. So this, course You can guess is not part of our program. I wish we had a campus in Sweden that would be really rad, but we don't.

I don't know why or how this shows up, but somebody has Missouri and online or something very close to it in the tags of this course. It also means like some random faculty can post something and have these tags, and it's gonna show up here and they might think it's officially ours. It might not be. We have no control over that. So the tags are problematic that you have to know what to search for.

So the way we handle that is when you go into these resources and you go to details, you can see down here there's a tag section. So whenever you upload this, you can put in your tags. So we put in Missouri and online and other things we think that they'll need. When we're doing like that business template I showed you, we have all those words as tags so it's easier for them to find. So that's a big limitation we have to kind of work within.

Let me go back to so it might I don't know if you can see. So what's something else that we notice say on this one? This first course that you can read is something like unclear or you don't know what it means? Does anything jump out at anyone? Yeah, admin. And in front of that, it says persephone Landellos. Who the heck is that? Would I know who that is? I know who that is because she works with me. But faculty don't know who that is.

So another big limitation is that it puts the author and the only the person who uploaded it, that's who it's coming from. So it doesn't show the organizations coming from. It doesn't look official because it just has someone's name. That's a big thing we struggle with. They're looking like I don't see him as her online.

I don't see him as her online. I say persephone. Who's that? So that's a big issue we have to deal with. Another thing because it's tied to that one person is when we wanna make an update, guess who has to make the update. That person who first uploaded it.

So, this course template, another designer myself recently spent, like, a month reworking And we were done and we're like, oh no, we have to find out who actually owns this. We had to go find and ask Steph pretty please. Can you upload those for us again? So every time I make an update to this, I have to go ask her to actually upload in comments. But one thing that's great is you actually get version notes every time we make updates, we catalog like what we're doing here. So that's really handy.

So you can kinda go back and see old versions. But that's another big limitation is that it's tied to this one person. Luckily, I haven't had any turnover in a long time, but if she left for instance, I'd be in real trouble. And I don't know. I guess we just have to re redo this one and have her take it down or something.

So haven't had that problem yet. Alright. So those are the big things with users. One other thing I really want to show you that is something else we have to deal is let me find the right example. Okay.

Module a. So this is just a module overview page. We built very generic, can work on campus. So you'll see here, it's just a lot of text. Not that exciting.

Up here on our right corner, You can kind of see this image. It's kinda hard. It's very hard to see. I understand, but there's some gray boxes and things. That's what it's supposed to look like.

So whenever I go to the actual page in Canvas, This is what that page is gonna look like when you pull it in your course. The reason it looks so nice is because we have our custom CSS and styles behind this. The problem is, comments cannot pull in our custom styles. So this page, which looks really nice here, looks like this in comments. So it looks like dog doo doo is not great.

You know, any styles you have strips them all out. So it's okay. It's not great. So we do our best to kinda, you know, make these look like what it's gonna look like, but if they see this example in a meeting and they come to find it here, they're never gonna see that actual, like, asset the way we want it to look. And then one final thing, which is the most frustrating thing of all.

I've saved it for last. So we're using this repository to say you share all this content with faculty. One thing is great. Look at this. There's this thing.

It says copy resource link. That is a direct link to this module overview template page. Wouldn't that be cool if I could just send this to a faculty member and it just worked? Yeah, it does not. It never does. So look, I'm log I'm logged in canvas.

I'm going to paste that in when I do It's very slow. Wait. It might do it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It is very slow.

Yeah. Thank you. The tension is amazing. It's gonna hear me really disappointed when you see what actually shows up. If it ever gets there.

Why we wait. What it's doing? There it goes. It takes you to the canvas dot structure dot com login screen. We have faculty trying to log in to this all the time. It is not how you log how we log in to Canvas.

We log in through our, through our, you know, our university credentials. So we can't share out this link. Huge pain in the butt. That's the biggest thing. So we'd love to be able to just if I could just share those links, I mean, I'd we'd be done go home, we go get drinks right now.

It doesn't work that way. So here's what we have to do is, again, our three circles thinking about that. We had to overcome all these challenges and figure out a better way to get shared out. So let me go back to this. Where did I sleep? Okay.

So just really quickly, in summary, all those problems I was talking about, you have to have tags very specific. They have to know to search for Missouri online. Anybody in the world can tag their content with any combination of those words and it's gonna show up, which is wonderful. Only a single user can upload or update the content in comments. The technology issues or challenges, sorry, I'm trying to be positive challenges.

Direct links never work. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. They've not worked since I've been here this week. And then our custom CSS, again, those previews aren't showing correctly. In commons.

So those are all the issues we found. So we figured out how what's a better way? There's got to be a better way. You know, what's a better way we can share this stuff out. So what we decided was to use our website. To host all these things.

So I'm gonna pop out of this again and we're gonna go to our website and hopefully it's working. Okay. So we created this single page on our website. We have lots and lots of stuff on our website, but this page is just Canvas templates. I just really quickly want to show just the overall view, and then we'll kind of dive in a little deeper.

So we have an intro, we have some instructions for how to find stuff, which I'll get to in a second. And then down here, we've organized all that content. So we saw forty things come up. I think we actually have probably like twenty six, twenty eight, something like that are actually our content. Another thing in comments, you know, everything is either a course module page.

There's no delineation. What's great about this is it gives us control and we can actually organize content based on what we expect faculty to do, like what kind of kind of terms searches they're gonna look for. Syllabus templates, organizer templates, are all page templates, but we're actually able to break them out a little further here. And then as we also all this in a second. When you expand these, you can see all these different templates and how and some, not instructions.

Like little summaries about each one. So really quickly, when I go up to the top and then, this little blue box of content, I have spent more hours agonizing over than anything in my entire life. It changes every few weeks. I just will tweak a word here and there. Try make this easier.

So I have all these very specific instructions. To access our templates, you must first be logged into Canvas. Let's get them there. Real big and bold. You must be logged into Canvas.

I don't know how to I can't shake people, you know, and scream at them digitally, but I'm trying to get them to see this. So again, just, you know, hitting them overhead that log in, look for this little but this little button, then come back to this page. Still having trouble, go search from zero only. It's not great. It's very imperfect.

It is absolutely not foolproof. This is as good as it's gotten. We get less and less help desk tickets but people still have issues. So a lot of times, you know, people just scan passes and they don't look at it and they never know how to get to anything. Anyways, this is a big struggle.

And the second thing is when we come down here, let me collapse all these. I'm gonna find go back to this one we were looking at before if I can find it. Module. There we go. So module overview a, this is that page we were looking at before.

We saw the gray boxes were looked all pretty and we saw how it looked really bad in comments. What's great this is we can actually click on this preview and actually see what it's gonna look like. So they can actually get a real preview here is really, really nice. So if they we often, you know, run-in meetings with faculty and they'll see these things, like, oh, I want that thing. I can tell them just come here, look for and they'll visually remember, you know, what they've seen, you know, what the what, what resource it is they're looking for.

So that's us getting over that weird preview issue. It's just screenshot nothing fancy. And then we have accesses template. Those are those direct links that if you're magically logged in and things magically work, you might get in, but of course we're not getting in still. So so that's let me see if I'm missing anything on that.

So that's really it. I mean, as far as the website goes, we just it, you know, we have everything. We organize it, but the other issue is okay. Last week, I created this really great new module template. So once I uploaded the canvas, what do I have to do next? I have to come here.

I have to update all this and add all this information. So instead of updating something once, it often includes, like, multiple steps in update everything, get everything into sync, perfectly. So that's another, thing we struggle with, I guess you could say, quite often. So so as far as the challenges of the website, the logistical challenges are all all are all on our end, just how we organize it, make it easy for faculty to find things. Again, the technology challenges, I'm just repeating myself over and over.

Direct links are not gonna work. Most of times. Those instructions at the top are not foolproof. They're not always gonna work. So that's our second piece.

So we've got comments. We've got our website kind of see how those things are interacting. Now you see something on the website and see how it looks in commons. So our third big piece of this puzzle is all of our stock sales and assets. So I said to our team, we manage all the style guides for the entire university system.

So we have styles and brandings all these different campuses. We have a thing called mixins as a dancing pineapple man. I don't remember where that came from, but that's our logo now. Pineapple man was on classes makes ins is like our internal repository. So all the stuff you see in commons, all those cool little templates, they all live here.

So we know if like, oh, I need to make an update to this page template, it's always going to be in here. And that's just for our internal group just to know where everything lives, so it's all in one spot. And we have a third thing called the light style guide. So our the big style guide and our mixins page. Audience is is my team.

That audience is five or six people that use that and that's it. Our lifestyle guide, the audience for that, it's a very pared down version of our full style guide. So we'll have, like, the more basic components, custom HTML, and we'll have all the code there that they can copy and paste. So the audience for that are instructional designers and faculty who have HTML and CSS skills. So there's probably twenty five to thirty people who have access to that across four thousand something faculty just to put in perspective.

So it's pretty limited. But it really helps them get kind of a leg up when they're designing new courses. So I will hop out again and we will go here and see if I can get this internet to work well. Maybe. Let's try this.

Yay. Maybe. Sorry about the slow internet. Okay. So here's our style guide.

So again, I don't need to go through all the details this, but this is just for our internal designers. We have branding for the system, for each of these campuses. So for instance, this might take forever to load. But when I go to our Missouri, Science and Technology branding page, it might pull up all the content We have all the colors, fonts, typesets, all that kind of stuff. It's not really pulling in.

Sorry. Because it's so slow. But anyways, this is sort of our Bible. This is what we use all day every day. We have this open and we come in here and we pull.

So here's all of our styles for everything. And if the internet was working better, I'd show you. But all these have got like multiple, you know, all the different campus brandings, all sorts of different things. And when you come in here, there's you know, eighty examples for all these things because this is, intended for my designers who are, like, highly skilled and know how to use all this stuff. Just makes it easier for them to design courses quickly.

So when I go back to Well, it minimally dies when there's no internet. I'll go back to this. These are not working. So your stuff can Yeah. Yeah.

Ours usually goes to the top, but we have that thing in the when you filter, it says, the shared with, like, university system. So, yeah, we do have that too. But because then even though I mean, if they sort of don't see what what you've had this feature. Exactly. Yeah, that helps too.

Alright. So the internet's not gonna work with us today. Sorry about that. So anyways, I can't show you all this cool stuff. So that just costs.

We just got five minutes back over time. That's great. So when you go in and you see, like, the mix ins and things like that, basically what I wanted to show you was how, you would go, you see that module overview a, you can see how it works, how it lives, and you can see how some website, how it's gonna look in commons. So what this means is there's a lot of challenges in this because basically we now have three things we have to keep up to date and in sync. Not the band, but just in sync with each other.

So logistical challenges, you know, again, going back to this, all the same stuff, only single user can upload or anything. And then the biggest thing is when we make one little update, we have to go update all these different things. As I was preparing for this, I saw One template page was, out of date on our website, but up to date everywhere else. So I had to go fix that when I get home next week. That's the biggest challenge I think is just keeping all these things in order.

And technology challenges, again, custom CSS is not working, so we can't see those previews well. At all. So we're gonna circle back to what we started. What was our challenge? Our challenge is how do we effectively, yeah, create and share all this content across multiple campuses. And again, summarizing all these things, the biggest issues are the tagging, users, not organization focused, showing those people's names.

Again, multiple updates keep everything in sync, and then direct links to comments are not our friends. And we can't get those previews. So again, we've gone back and we've have all three of these pieces. So when we took this different approach, all the the benefits that we found from taking this kind of multifaceted approach, outweigh the cons and the challenges, but what it does is it gives us this very central hub repository to find our content. So what's great is I can just send anybody to our teaching website and see all of our content and all of our you know, templates and things like that in commons.

It's really hard to directly link to commons because of all the login issues. So it's just really great. I can send them one link and they can at least get to and find our stuff. Using comments the way we do it, we can distribute very branded content to specific, you know, academic units, programs, things like that, and putting it in comments makes it really easy to pull for them to pull all that content, into their courses and things like that. I'm gonna say this is positive because I'm running out of, you know, positives gives them options so they can look in comments look on our website.

There's lots of ways to find things. We are actually able to make things pretty consistent. So they can actually see those previews on our website. And things like that. And I put ease of use for the most part.

Nothing is foolproof. And it's like overly complicated on the back end, but I think just having that single website for everyone to go to makes easier, for our faculty to find things. So going back, here's where we kind of started, here's where we're landing. We have our three big pieces, comments, our website all of our styles and assets, which are not working because the internet's horrible right now. But anyways, and what we found is that we're really getting to that goal of our happy faculty T, and it's working really, really well.

Like I said, that little blue box instructions, I edit it all the time. We're always reorganizing things, but now that we have that central hub, it's working really, really well. And, we've noticed, like, the number of people using our templates went from, like, five or ten a year. To a couple hundred a year. So that's really great.

So again, we're gonna finish a little early because I can't get the internet working well enough. So here's my big takeaways. You can all go and search for all this stuff on your own and kinda see how all these things are working and interconnecting. This is my last slide. I'm just gonna leave it up here and we can talk.

So search from Missouri online Kavis Commons teaching dot Missouri dot edu is our website. You can see here how to get to all of our stuff, and there's my somewhat unfortunate email address patent pending. If you need to get a hold of me. So I hate talking so much and I like a lot more showing and telling. So I'm just kinda curious like you have and I wish I could show you everything I'm really I really do apologize for that.

Yeah. We can't stop him, so why not? Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, okay. So that's another thing is, that whole academic technology admin side is out of my hands. That's where our academic technology people.

So Exactly. It's like, this is our, this is our reality. These are the, this is the world we were living in, and these are our options. So this is kind of the way we've approached it at this point. So, yeah.

What other questions? Yeah. I've asked, and the answer has been no. I don't know why. I'm sure there's a very important technology issues that is way above my head. But, yeah, we don't we don't have any of those kind of generic accounts.

I try to create them for lots of things. It doesn't work. So right now, we're still stuck with our single user issue until somebody, fixes it. Or we can create a user that's called somebody has changed their name legally to Missouri online, then that would work. But yeah.

Oh, yeah. We, I would say we do that less and less. We take we've begun to phase that out because either they don't use it or they break it. Yeah. We just leave it blank.

Like, well, they're gonna put their information on the syllabus, usually. So, like that, our, that, our course template, like the really large generic one. We actually when I was saying we just updated actually we took it off because it was just causing problems. We're like, they're gonna know who their teacher is. It's gonna also have the faculty name and the title and the link at the top.

And it's gonna be in the syllabus. It's gonna over the course, so we figured it's just easier that way. So other questions? Yeah. Because giving the faculty instructions on how to find it in Canvas is too difficult a lot of times. That is that simple.

It's like, wait, where I can't find this? Like, comments go down, you know, six buttons. It's right there. They still can't find it sometimes. So going to that website, they can click it on an email and it's gonna take in there. I know a hundred percent.

As long as the site's up, that's basically it. Just get over those technological hurdles. Do you have a question? Mhmm. Yep. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Yeah. It's it's I don't know what variables. And someone academic technologies team explained why. I'm like, that's cool. I don't understand it.

So I'm just doing the best I can with what I have. So yeah, because we just can't control it, we never know. So that's why we've kind of taken this more external site approach to, like, hopefully we found it worse better to kind of lead them that kind of hand holds them a little bit more to the content they're looking for. Yeah. So is that that link? Yes.

Disclaimer. Oh, I like that. Yeah. Not that I know of. No.

I go to Thompson search and you three six five seven lines, get this? Yeah. See if it works. But so yeah when you go here the the link to comments and when you search like it doesn't change. It's always the same URL, but you can get those direct links so that we know work usually. But Yeah.

Yeah. So it's great for sharing stuff. It's great for hosting things and, you know, getting it out there. And just because you can one button, one click and everything goes into the course seamlessly, it's amazing. But there's just so many issues with how it actually functions especially with, you know, faculty that are very not very technologically savvy.

That you're kind of like this Yeah. So we thought that that might help a little bit with identifying what are not Swedish uh-uh yeah. Mhmm. That's why I was gonna try and get you next if it'll load. So we used to do these.

We started that was a big thing. We had these screenshots and they're so tiny that the core will So we've realized, oh, let's do that. So we save those previews for our website. And now we're starting to do this. So for instance, if Yeah.

This is like the icon for the Saint Louis campus. So if you know that, you know it's that. So we've talked about it, but then it just it makes everything very samey. And And then it's it can be difficult to pinpoint. I don't know.

Usually, it just all bleeds together and then it's hard to pick pinpoint which of those things you wanna find. So So, but like you can see these first two, like, I've changed them just like nice pretty images. So we don't have so much of the screenshots like this thing down here. So we're slowly shifting away from that. Yeah.

Yeah. But then it gets real tiny and I don't know. It's Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.

The top right corner and then, like, overlay it because it looks like a wax seal. It just had an abbreviation. To where we can still have different temperatures. Yeah. We just recently did that on our catalog, like, very recently, and it actually looks really good.

So I was kind of already thinking about doing something similar. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's real hard for you.

Yeah. I don't have access to but I I got to look into that now. That's good. Yeah. The TV image I had to go to my admin to get so I sent him the image.

He's like, try this one. Try this one. Try this one. Yeah. Yeah.

If I see another question over here. Maybe not. Okay. Anything else? Thanks very much for your patience with the internet. Thank you for being here so late in the day.

I appreciate it. Let's all go eat and drink and be merry. Thank you.