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Good morning everyone,I was looking at doing a bulk CSV into our Primary Curriculum Courses (Pre K - 6) of our Syllabus outcomes and was wondering if there is a way that we can apply all of the outcomes to all of the courses in the one Sub-Account au...

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Hi All, Wondering, is it possible to add custom fields to users, to store additional information such as registration numbers?Cheers, Shaun

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A student reached out saying she cannot join the course. The student already uses Canvas but it won't accept her password. She has done the password reset twice and it has not sent anything. Is there a reason she cannot be added to my course? 

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Is it possible for a person who is listed as an instructor for a course to also be a student with the ability to complete the course?  I have created a district course with mandatory trainings that I also have to take myself.  Do I need to create an ...

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I need to know how I can migrate the question banks so that they are inside the course and not as an external bank that can be shared with the quiz. In Classic Quizzes the bank could be at the administrative account level, but it could be copied and ...

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I can not change my last name    It does not allow me

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My institution started using Canvas two terms ago and already we've had two support tickets from users who found that certain UI elements in Canvas had disappeared.In both cases, clearing out the copy/pasted text from the RCE and replacing it with un...

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How do I find my final transcript from last year?

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When I have this set of requirements for a module to be completed, is it possible to say that a student has to complete all of these six items and at leas one of these two? Like a combination of 'complete all' and 'complete one of these'.More specifi...

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I need to create an account to submit an assignment

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HiI am a new part-time lecturer in Singapore Campus to teach a MSc module in October to December 2022.There are 2 published courses; iTeachER vs iTeachER-Asia.  Do I need to complete both courses or should I do iTeachER only?Thank You!RegardsHamid

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I'm using Classic Quizzes, since there is not Survey support in New Quizzes. If I set the survey as anonymous, I can't figure out how to see the responses to essay questions. Is there a way to see them?Thanks for any help.Traci

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Good evening, community: I am trying to restrict modules and module items to specific students or groups. It’s something I’ve been able to do in other LMS software and it’s been discussed here before in these threads:https://community.canvaslms.com/t...

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Is it possible for an admin to send an email to a student's canvas inbox without being in the same course as that student? If so, what permissions do I need to request from my institution?

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As an Instructor, I've posted the assignments and assigned them to students based on mastery. Not all assignments are provided to all students.I'm confused about the grades page (individual view) because it shows all the assignments that I've posted ...

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My goal is to retrieve all answers of an essay question in an Ungraded Survey via API calls. Thank you for suggestions.

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since two days i cant utilize my system.And said that my system does not match with the minimum requirements.How should i proceed to get access to my canvas platform and help me update my system

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I am teaching a new-to-me course this fall. I copied a section of the course from a different instructor to use as a base for mine. That instructor used weighted grades, but I use a points system. I have edited the Assignments page to not use weighte...

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Changes made to the time portion of an assignment due date on the Edit Assignment Dates page aren't saved.Here's a demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/29b6e86d0d8642538e5627f3b4339ae1Note: if there's a better place to report issues like this, plea...

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How do I delete a mistake posting on a Discussion Board? 

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As a long-time Canvas Community member, I've been watching conversations about this topic at least as far back as this 2016 question by @John_Lowe. My working understanding has been: To support "convenience" combinations, manually apply (to each st...

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I do not understand why Canvas won't allow you to use points, instead of only percentages, for a grading scheme? This seems like the easiest addition in the world to make? I hate using percentages. When you're using extra credit to really messes thin...

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I am an Canvas Administrator. When copying a course, what does the "Security parameters for external tool <name> need to be set" mean? I am having difficulty finding "Security parameters" in course settings. Is this instead referring to Settings->App...

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I am an administrator trying to complete the Growing with Canvas: Canvas Teacher Training Couse. However, I got stuck on the 2.9 Home Page Submission.  When I went into my sandbox and clicked on Modules, I did not see the customizable options to add/...

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Hi Canvas Community,I am facing issue with the link received via email (using outlook) to review the submission comments received by participants. But when I click on the link, it takes me to the login page, repeatedly and doesn't open the actual lin...

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If a student emailed an assignment separately, how do I move that assignment to Canvas in order to grade and give the student credit for the assignment? 

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i would like to prevent a user from seeing any detail regarding other users in a course. I would like to be to release certain files and send emails to specific groups of users throughout the semester. However, I do not want the users to know that th...

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Hi there,I am having trouble linking a course page to a button on the home page.  I go through the process of:1: editing home page to allow to link2: clicking on button and then select the link button and select course links.3: select page that want....

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HelloI run workshops for students on behalf of a university organisation, and I have a searchable blog in Collaborate Ultra where I post information useful to the students. It's not related to assessment, and they are not expected to respond to the p...

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It would be much easier to navigate through so much information if there was a search bar at the top to take us right to where we need to go. Thank you in advance for your consideration of this request!

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