[Athen] Canvas Speed Grader Dark Mode?

[Karen Latimer]

I wonder if windows settings would do this? Haven't tried it, but if he's
on a Windows device I would try...
Karen

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 12:45 PM Stager, Catherine <
Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu> wrote:


> Don’t know that a fix for Speedgrader can be found, as it shows an image

> of the submission, but using Gradebook you can go to the Assignment and

> then download all the submissions. The submissions would then be available

> in Word, (assuming .doc submission). Not a clean solution, nor as efficient

> as Speedgrader, but doable. I always had to download the assignments of my

> students because I had to see the Alt text they ascribed to their graphics,

> as it was part of their grade.

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> We have had some luck with users who just need it not so bright white by

> using Chrome extension, ColorOverlay, but this would not be a solution in

> this case.

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> Sorry for the cross-listing but I am completely stumped by this one...

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> I had a faculty member reach out and ask for help - he is  mostly blind

> and requires a dark background with light text.

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> We just switched to Canvas and, while most of Canvas works with tools like

> Dark Mode and High Contrast, the *documents* in SpeedGrader are not

> affected by the apps so are still black on white.

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> The High Contrast Extension in Chrome will work for the first one but then

> breaks when he moves to the next.

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> Has anyone else dealt with this issue or have any advice or tools that I

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