What is Canvas? Is it like Omegle?

Watch the video to see what I am talking about! I used Word for example but it is the same with powerpoint but just using Powerpoint. (Sorry that the video is so slow)

I am an instructor and created student groups to allow them to work on group projects.I can access the Collaborations created in the main course menu, but when I go to a Group Homepage and try to open Collaborations from the group homepage, I get the...

Hi, I am new for canvas so now we are working on setup the grading scheme for the sub account and we want all the course on this sub account can only choose the grading scheme that we set from back end. Teacher are not not allow to use their own grad...

I am trying to remove this lock icon from my module pages. 

THIS ONE CANVAS INFLEXIBILITY WASTES SO MUCH OF MY TIMEWhy can't Canvas have functionality to add/subtract points globally on a quiz after students have submitted? Or, better yet, auto change the scores on a quiz after modifying a quiz?For example, y...

I am trying to log into canvas and it lets me but nothing is showing everything is loading, and I then log into a different device and canvas is working just fine.

Does anyone know of a way to include a financial calculator (like excel spreadsheet) to a quiz using Proctorio with the browser locked? The standard answer would be to embed a file for them to download BUT this is a closed note exam. As soon as you d...

I'm using the ID from a teacher trial account to make the endpoint POST (/api/v1/accounts/:account_id/courses)  and when I attempt to create a new course, everything looks to work but I'm not seeing the course being created. Anyone know if the API PO...

In synchronous classes I share my iPad screen with students and then, when I upload these handwritten notes on canvas, as pdf files, they have 5% accessibility score. I would appreciate any suggestions about improving the accessibility score.Thank yo...

Greetings All:Is anyone using Pearson Platinum Education Group software integrated with Canvas (MyLab Mastering)? Regards, Stephen

BHHi. I am an instructor.I wrote a quiz and published it. However, my students students (and myself on student view) cannot see it. On student view, I see it by grades, but when i click on it, it's blank.  I don't know how to make it available to stu...

I can see in the assignment page all students have been assigned two peer reviews, half the students can see theirs, and half cannot. The students tried using a different browser, refreshing the page, and the students they are assigned to review did ...

For about a month upload of any file above I would say 500k to Files or as an attachment to comments on an assignment is taking very long (more than 5-10 minutes) and often fails completely. I have broadband internet connection and download/upload vi...

I am an online student and would like to connect to other people in my subject personally is there a chat feature? can I find others' emails from a tab somewhere? I have looked in the inbox on canvas and it only does an email to the WHOLE class or th...

It would be great if there were a feature that could remove the "Missing" label from assignments when the grading period ends. I have to manually remove missing tags from last term's assignments so that they no longer show up in my students' "To-do" ...

I haven't come across this issue before, but it is giving me fits. I've got two items in one module, an assignment and a quiz. For both of these, there are different due dates for two sets of students in the class. The module, assignment, and the qui...

Students want to resubmit assignments. Settings show the assignment uses external tool therefore resubmissions not available. What is external too, can I change this so that students can have unlimited submissions? 

When I have 100 questions in my test bank, I don't want to add all 100 of them to a quiz. So I need to select specific questions to add to quiz from the bank. Therefore, I hope to create New Quizzes with specific questions from an item bank, while en...

When I try to upload a video on to canvas in a quiz my camera is always inverted. Is there anyway to fix that?

I was grading a group assignment. Students were allowed to work on this assignment without being in a group. However, I came to find out that my comments for those solo students were not saved. My "solution" was to put those students in their individ...

Our school recently switched from term courses in Canvas to year long courses. In a lot of ways, this was a great move. However, my gradebook is now cluttered with excessive empty assignment group total columns. This isn't an issue if you look all gr...

I always use Safari when using Canvas and usually it works fine, however, for about a week now I have not been able to view PowerPoints/presentations while on Safari. This has never been an issue before, so I am confused. In the meantime, I have been...