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New to using Canvas and have switched from D2L. Previously, I was able to grade only some of my students' assignments at a time, save their score (but not release it to them yet), and then finish my grading on another day. Then, I would be able to re...

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I teach several courses, and each has its own canvas tile.  When I'm navigating to the gradebook for a particular course, canvas requires that I execute an extra click from the dashboard because I have to first enter the course through the course til...

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I am a college student. My dad checks my canvas assignments. I know what my assignments are, and I do them on time. It just bothers me when my dad told me about what I should do, when I already know what to do. It just seems he doesn't trust me, and ...

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I can't seem to toggle the button to grade discussions anymore. Is this feature gone?

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Hello,The speed grader function no longer allows me to add comments or make mark-ups on student work. It is now replace with a notice to download the mobile app. This makes it very difficult to grade student work and give precise feedback. Can you he...

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Why is there NOTHING about making/publishing your home page? Our district wants us to be graphic designers, import ALL the stuff...I have no time/inclination to learn all this...what do you suggest? 

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How do I enter multiple grades for a standard in Canvas. For instance, I have Science as my Group. "Parts of a plant " is the standard and I have to manually enter two grades for this standard. How do I do this? Thanks, Traci

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I am wanting create a Journal Club assignment discussion board within Canvas.The concept is that each week a student within their discussion group will be required to write an essay on a specific topic ( a primer essentially). They then post it so th...

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I have been using Canvas for several years as an Instructor and have been having great success using Learning Outcomes to set up rubrics and grade for Learning Mastery. This year, I have one course that is not posting any grades to Learning Outcomes....

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HiI appear to have two accounts (One that I set up to access some pre course work and another issued to me when I started the actual course) Both have the same email and password. I have been working off an ipad on the canvas app but don't have full ...

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Is anyone else having problems looking up chat history? We are required to look up chat and write a brief sumary when we miss chat time. Well my chat history is all messed up.

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I set up a Discussion with GroupsI make it an Assignment, and categorize it as a Group AssignmentCanvas STILL does not allow me to apply the same Assignment grade for this Group Discussion Assignment, to all Group members - in the same way I can set ...

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How does a student access my comments inside their assignment?

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Hello,I was wondering if there is a feature to export the rubric for assignments as part of the "export gradebook" feature.  For example, suppose that an assignment has 5 problems.  The rubric I set up allows the grader to grade each problem individu...

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I am an instructor of AMD278.I graded some exercises, one of students' activities in class on Canvas.However, a few students' grades in exercise 1 and 2 looks missing even though I added their scores in the SpeedGrader on Canvas. When I checked the S...

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HI, all. I have assignments that I have created in Canvas, and of course, the rubrics are all built there, too. Are there ways to export individual assignment instructions and rubrics into Adobe, Word or Google? 

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Hi! I'm a TA and my professor had her students imported into canvas. How can I add other people if the "Add People" button is not available in the People page.Thank you, Steliana

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Why/how does Canvas SpeedGrader do a word count for student assignments that are missing? It includes a word count even though the student did not submit anything and I have not commented. In addition, the word count is different for different studen...

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Could you please help as I can't add y daughter in Parent vue ( classrooms)  her Name is Miantsa , she is at North Bethesda Middle School Could you please to fix that?  Many thanks Adria           

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We would like  to restrict students to use only their official student email account when they are in canvas and our classes.  Is there a way to keep them from adding a new email account and / or making an alternative account their default account?  ...

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have not been getting notifications from OPP 1003  and HPO 1008 . I checked the notifications setting and they seem to be correct. The notifications are not ending up in their deleted items folder. They are both showing in the classes. Their notifica...

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Cómo puedo recuperar una evaluación la cual fue eliminada por error y la misma ya contaba con entradas?  

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Hi,I have recently taken over a course from a colleague and I am trying to get the Canvas site sorted out ready for the start of the semester. My colleague had created a useful quiz made up of a set of question banks and I would like to edit these an...

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I know that you can create rubrics, but I’ve realized students can see the rubric before completing the assignment. I’d like to have grading notes for something more holistic, like when I am asking students to complete questions and I need the answer...

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I'm a high school biology teacher with a mix of general education and special education students in my course. There are about 80 students total in this course, spread across four sections.I'd like to find a way to grade a handful of students with IE...

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I've been using Speedgrader this year to provide feedback on written assignments. I exclusively use the point, highlight and strikethrough annotations and find that I am able to give high quality feedback with these tools. However I find the interfac...

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Is there a way to set quizzes to anonymous grading as you can for assignments?

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I posted a message a few weeks ago, with no response.I need help with my institution's canvas.  I am Admin for my high school.1) I have observers who's passwords have randomly stopped working.2) we want to add external tools to the library3) we want ...

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