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I am trying to share a Kaltura video (2 minutes) via email to a student.  I am only seeing the embed option.  I am very new to Canvas and Kaltura.  Can someone help?   

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Hi, Community! Students receive an email notification when I publish a class announcement. OK so far. Here’s my question: if I *allow comments* in class announcements, are students also notified by email every time someone comments or replies to a co...

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I'm trying to determine if there is an easier way to do what I am doing. When I grade assignments in large lecture classes, I often want to get a jump on grading by banging out the ones submitted early. However, after you grade one student, you have ...

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I am having trouble grading my student's quizzes on Canvas. All of my quizzes are set to a grading policy of "automatic" and they are all set to "allow multiple attempts" and they are all set to "Let Students See Their Quiz Responses". Now, I only ha...

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We are contemplating creating a course specific to accommodated students to disseminate information about accommodations such as exam scheduling, etc. However, the students cannot know who else is enrolled. I know how to hide the people tab, but the ...

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Caveat: This might be a highly specialized thing that only I do and might not be entertained as a feature request; but I thought I would ask.User Role: InstructorI have the habit of sending weekly Announcements - usually timed to go out at 8:00 AM on...

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In my Kaltura video recordings, the camera screen (i.e., me) always defaults to being the primary screen.  How do I change the video settings so that the presentation screen (i.e., PowerPoint) is saved as the primary screen and my camera screen is th...

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I want all of my classes to be able to see the appointment group I created. I have added both classes to the appointment group, but only one is appearing in the Canvas Calendar. When I try to "edit" group details both classes are grayed out not allow...

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Is there a way to tell if students have rejected an invitation to a course?  I've read some older questions on this forum (2018) that said there used to be a report that would show this, but I can't find the buttons they referced and I can't find any...

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Hello, just want to know if a student is notified when they are deactivated from a course. Thank you.

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We have math teachers who have individual licenses for Delta Math and need to integrate it with our canvas instance.  I have read their instructions  however, when it says to go to +App, the teachers do not have that option.  I am sure it is a permis...

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I have quizzes that are given on paper that I then let students submit corrections for.  Is there a way to mark these assignments as resubmitted in the Canvas gradebook so that I can differentiate when a student has turned in the assignment?

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There is contradictory and confusing information in the guide about automatically assigning peer reviews in discussions: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-automatically-assign-peer-reviews-for-a-discussion/ta-p/1108At the t...

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I'm using Classic Quizzes. Actually, two problems: (1) Canvas is not deleting selected questions from the Question Bank.  Instead, it greys out the question -- but, does not delete it from the bank. (2) Modifying and updating a question causes Canvas...

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I am unable to log into my school for science.  I put in my email and password but it says it is the wrong password- what is interesting is that it is the same password and email for my other school that I use with Canvas.  I copied and pasted all th...

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On my Canvas home page, in the centre I have  a section called 'Module Learning Path'.  It is a set of blue buttons labelled week 1, week 2, week 3 etc.  I have worked out how to edit the titles of the buttons, but how do I link the buttons to the co...

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Student To Do List Error - Not showing all missing assignments   For some reason, I have a few students whos To Do list is not counting assignments correctly.     The students go to canvas - then to dashboard view.  They mostly use the "List View" in...

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Do you know if there is a setting in the Admin settings to turn off the option where Observers can "combine" student accounts when they are pairing them?  We just had a parent do this and WE were able to split them, but was hoping we could turn it of...

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How to open the limit when I create a new group by invitation only without inviting people? Thanks~

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Head office has populated all courses on canvas with the students in relevant subjects from iSAMS.  However, some classes have not populated.  How can I add student users to courses? Or indeed check the synch with iSAMS.  I am just a school level adm...

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I'm a parent. When I try to log into Canvas LMS using a password manager and Safari, the Canvas password field doesn't get the password entered/pasted into it, meaning I have to open the password manager to copy and paste the password it into the for...

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Have checkpoints been enable in discussion settings? Can you choose two dates for discussion assignments. one for the original posting and one for the response?

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I was working on an assignment close to its deadline on the text box of an assignement. I completed it, but pressed submit right as the deadline hit at 3:00PM. That caused my screen to navigate to an "access denied" and the assignment was locked. Ple...

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What does a u with a circle when it is in front of an announcement?  u with a circle

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When a french teacher with her canvas set to French tries to set dates for assignments in Canvas, dates are not saved. Switching to English solved the problem, but language teachers need to use the target language when using Canvas

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I am an administrator and want to be able to search a student's name and see their grades in all classes. How do I do that?

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After saving my post in the editing box, list items have 15 lines of free space between them. This is annoying and contrary to accepted practice. It should be changed to one space between items.

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I need assistance connecting a teacher's Canvas Account to her VHL account.  They are supposed to talk to each other. She has her class setup on Canvas and on VHL.  I watched a video tutorial on how to connect them but my screen doesn't match the tut...

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I would like to make an assignment with MATLAB Autograder such that it has a time limit start when the students open it. Is this possible with assignments or only quizzes? 

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I am using canvas free for teacher and I have my first problem in 10 years !  When I try to add a due date and save it, the date vanishes. This is a real problem, we (that is the same for my collegues) are unable to assign work to students, please he...

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