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1. All the engines have failed in different ways, but all the failures were due to loss of cooling or lubrication caused by a gasket failure. How many failures out of 7 were due to cooling (&/or lubrication)? 2. What was the outcome of the two races ...

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Upon submitting a reply to the main discussion of a form it was deleted. in other words the reply shows up as being posted but with no text. is there a way to maybe access the auto-save feature to retrieve the lost post. 

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How can I review past tickets that I have submitted? I have the ticket number.

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Is there a way to copy and paste students' answers from quizzes? I used to copy and paste their answer and create separate comment files for providing detailed comments, but all of sudden I am not able to copy students' answers from quizzes.    

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Is there a way to view the notes pane when grading a student PPT submission without having to download the presentation?

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In my Canvas course I have posted over 350 assignments.   Because of the large number of assignments, it takes ~20 or 30 seconds for the Canvas Assignment Page to load and the page is unresponsive until it loads completely. Some assignments only take...

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Hello!   Are there file size maximums to importing QTI .zip files?   I am trying to upload a .4MB question bank to a Canvas course using the import existing content option and selecting QTI .zip file. I have successfully uploaded other question bank ...

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Hi we have had a course running since 2017 and all of a sudden the videos will not run. The person who designed the course is no longer at our institution. I know very little about Canvas. I am signed in as teacher and I have confirmed that the video...

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How do I access peoples comments after I have already graded the paper?  I receive a notification, but am unable to find the comments that the students left to respond.  I am a TA, so I don't know if that changes the process. Is there an easier way t...

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Cómo puedo actualizar mi editor de contenido enriquecido para que me aparezca la opción de insertar imágenes y obtener mas funciones?

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Why isn't there an option in the main menu to go to discussions or an easy way to get to all of the unread submissions? It takes why too many clicks to find this.

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I am attempting to add an LTI link to the main navigation menu according to the guide linked below.  However, for the tool I am attempting to add, I only see placement options for assignment and link selection.  Is there a way to enable the navigatio...

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University of Maryland College Park. I'm a Teaching Assistant. Can't view previews in Speedgrader. Says "Service is currently unavailable. Try again later". Similar issue with some other files, i.e. syllabus. Seems to be an issue displaying previews ...

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I am a teacher and I will be taking some time off but don't want to loose all the work I've put into my canvas classes.  How or can I download them?

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The last week, many of my student's PDF submissions are no longer giving me the option to write on them to give feedback using my Apple Pencil.  Today, assignments I had this option for yesterday are no longer able to do this with.  All the submissio...

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I have changed my time zone to eastern standard time, but three of my seven students still show mountain time for their quiz and exam available times.  Why is their time remaining on mountain time while the other 4 students changed to the desired eas...

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I use to be able to look at one class in canvas, now I am not able to do it. Why was this feature removed or how can I get it back?

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Is there another way to create a lecture that I don't know about? It seems like there is no way to create a lecture or similar event that can: * Contain any information * Have a start and end time in the Calendar * Be added to a module in Modules Am...

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In past years I was able to hook up my canvas email to my school email. But this semester, they do not connect. In other words, any email that a student sent to me in canvas showed up in my wolzb@byui.edu. Now it does not.  Also a student said she tr...

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I posted a midterm exam with a release time and a time limit (four hours). The students were to download a pdf containing the questions, type or handwrite their answers on the document, and submit a pdf or jpeg image of their solutions. They had succ...

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Please provide the html code to float an image to the left, then have some padding to the right with text to the right.

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How do I access a detailed access report? I see that someone accessed "Roll Call" 33 times as of 4/27/22. But I need to see exactly what dates/times all 33 occasions were accessed. Is there a way to find this out? We're finding a discrepancy in atten...

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I have 2 students. How do I "pair" for student number 2? I have already set up for my first student. Am I able to add the second?

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Hi all,  Is there any way to confirm students' enrollment in a course without doing it individually through emails? I'm a developer who needs to perform testing on hundreds of fake students so that wouldn't be an option. For your reference, I'm using...

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I'm an ID and work as a manager of training and support for a Canvas Partner. A teacher from one of our institutions contacted us in regards to a "too long" error she is receiving while editing content in the RCE. When asked for the HTML for troubles...

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When we were still using Blackboard here at Tarrant County College, I knew how to insert Rosetta Stone into the course at the beginning of every semester. Now that we've switched to Canvas, I don't have a clue! Thanks, Janet Wilson

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• We currently use SAML with google to authenticate users into canvas.• We recently setup google (OAuth method) as our new way of authenticating google users into canvas.• Initially, the OAuth would just present an error page after a user logged in w...

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As an instructor, is it possible to view all of a student's discussion submissions (their original + their replies to other students) in 1 location?  For instance, could I view a student's original + 2 reply discussion threads in all one place so tha...

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