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At present students have to click 'view feedback' to see my annotations. Is there a way to enable autoloading for DocViewer for all students across the instance, as it's a bit of a UX issue at my school at the moment, and lots of students are missing...

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Hello,I am a student, and I am unable to view the class that I am enrolled in.  How can I figure out how to add it?  I have clicked on my courses, and clicked on view all courses.  The only thing showing is the tutorial.Thank you for your help!

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I have an (ungraded) class that I require students to upload a file showing their work on an exam. Once the due date has passed, I go look at the exams and I use "pins" to leave feedback. Then I mark the exam as "incomplete" i Speed grader so that I ...

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I am an instructor and have a multilayered course and am wanting to transfer this into Canvas. What is the best way to do this?Do I need to edit the existing course ( which is in another LMS) to make it more flat ( i.e. only a 2 layered course) or is...

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As an instructor, how can I provide a student with access to oral presentation and sharing their Power Point on the screen during the Zoom meeting?  

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Greetings,  I am a course grader and I am wondering how to view a student submission without opening the file?The speedgrader view is faulty. I am trying to find another way to either embedd a code to view the student's submission or figure out what ...

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I need help with creating away to input I for incomplete for students who do not  complete the course. Students may, or even will, think that they have completed the class if they see a passing  grade based on the running total formula. 

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As Instructors  in our Canvas community uses the"Course Link Validator" tool provided, it often time displays the message "Found (number of) Broken Links,"however most the times this is not the case. This message is often times displayed when the lin...

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Hey, there!Within the past few weeks, some of our custom JavaScript functions have stopped working. Specifically, it seems like Canvas is blocking clickable eventListeners. In our case, we lost some functionalities and DOM manipulations because of th...

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when i get to my dashboard on rcc canvas it tells me that my card is empty, and just a day before that it was working.

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Canvas added extra points to total exam points, which ends up hurting students. I fixed it but now canvas just totals the points minus the exams until I update the scores. Is there a way I can just do this once for all students or do I need to go to ...

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How do you move a module from one Canvas shell to another?

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I am super new as a Canvas admin coming from another LMS. I have created two "Account Roles" (Building Administrator and Tech Admin) at the District root account. The only way to have them have the Start a new course button appears to have users with...

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We use a Blueprint Course with associated courses to organize our courses. We've started adding 3rd party/external tools to some courses and we are finding that a majority of the time, the external tools are not syncing correctly to the associated co...

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I have images embedded in questions that are in multiple question banks. When I look at the bank the images show up for me. They also show up in the student preview. When students try to take the quiz the image doesn't show up. I attached an image of...

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I want to enable self-enrol to a course for students who don't necessarily have an account in my instance of Canvas - some of them have existing Canvas accounts for other institutions. The issue I have is that I created the secret link, but when I sh...

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Hey Guys, just wondering how we find the information that contains the order of in which we should complete our modules. I have no clue where to find this information and have looked everywhere I can think. TIA-Jade

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I have a colleague who works in a different company and has a different email to everyone else. When this colleague clicks on links that I have made within the canvas course it asks them to sign in using my companies email address? Is there a way tha...

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Is that a function to setup auto holiday messages in Canvas Inbox. 

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Hi, I want to students to see our company logo instead of Canvas logo when responding email from Canvas.

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We will be offering fully self-paced courses for professional development to both organizations and individuals. For individuals, purchasing one 'seat' in a course is quite straightforward (Catalog has this option already). For organizations, I have ...

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I'm SO frustrated with students not reading my assignment comments or even the comments on their rubric; is there a way to force them to read them??  Maybe set it up so they can't do the next assignment until they're reviewed the grade & comments on ...

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Usually Zoom is in my Canvas pages by default, but it's not there this time. I hadn't even bothered to check till I was about to start office hours for the class I teach at Wayne State University in Detroit. Any ideas? 

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I have a student Discussion submission that showed up in Greek for some reason. The student didn't write it in Greek and the other students in class can see it in English. Any thoughts?

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I have mistakenly submitted an assignment to another subject’s assignment box. After I realised the problem, I resubmitted a correct version. Both of them require turnitin check and allow multiple submissions. Will the submission history affect the s...

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I can't figure out how to separate responses to individual questions within a Discussion topic.  In Blackboard, Students reply to each question in the discussion with a separate "Thread" for that question. I have 3-5 questions for each discussion top...

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How do I listen to a missed class on Canvas / Dashboard? I have a PSU password and a zoom password. I am in the SALC program. Thank you

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