In working with a professor today and showing her the plug-in icon in order to access Panopto, she told me the plug-in icon means “drug dealer” on social media. She then told me her young son died of fentanyl overdose after buying it via social media...

Hi all, My university has just switched from D2L to Canvas.  There are some pluses to Canvas, but there are also some D2L functions that I miss! My latest issue is that I have rubrics that are attached to assignments, and I would like to detach them ...

How can we set an Enrollment Duration for students entering a course without an end date? For example, students access the course, which activates their enrollment in the course, and sets an expiry date when the individual student’s enrollment expire...

Hi! This is a beginner's question, but how are users vs. enrollments calculated when it comes to tracking numbers for an account? I understand the differentiation between users and enrollments to be multi-course versus single-course, but not sure how...

Hello, My name is Lathal459. I was wondering if it's possible to make my own final exam practice test on canvas or on Microsoft word? I have had an anxiety test issue since I started back as a current student.  And my last test 3 was very awfully bad...

I've had students telling me they have resubmitted assignments but when I check the grade book, nothing new is there. I finally went into speed grader and checked, and there it was. The color wasn't different (green like a new submission) or anything...

Hi, I do like to create a pool where all students can answer independent of courses or sub-account. There is anyway? For example to create an announcement with a pool? like.... "What is your favorite fruit?" a) b)

Greetings, Due to some SIS limitations, our current school has a relatively flat SubAccount structure: School EDUBMLADCETC.... I'm adding a permission such as (EDU/BML admin) but due to our limitation I can't give them their own parent folder.If I a...

Withdrawn students used to be able to see their withdrawn courses in Canvas, just not participate. We are receiving reports that these students can no longer see their courses at all on their Dashboard or in their All Courses. Is there a way to enabl...

I  was trying to find the course total average (this used to be easy in old canvas gradebook) and viewed the New Analytics page. There I observed that for several students, their course total average was different from what is displayed on my Grades ...

I can access canvas by google chrome, but I cannot access it by safari. I can use Google Chrome temporary, but I don't think it is right.   I have been using safari to access canvas for more than two years. This problem seemed to appear since last se...

Hello, A teacher in our school would like to collect data on how frequently a particular file in a Canvas course has been downloaded. The "User Access Report" found in Admin > Setting > Report seems to provide this, with columns for "Content Type", "...

My video says unable to process.  Why? I recorded it with the canvas Webcam. 

One of our instructors encountered the Select Rubric dropdown seen in the image below and was wondering why it was there. It is only showing up for one student's submission in the Speedgrader. I've never encountered this before and have not been able...

My community college is new to Canvas. We would like to set up a role for librarians. For those that have created a librarian role in their schools, what permissions have you granted? 

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I’m am trying to go back to some old courses and read through my work and I can’t find them all. Classes that I have taken a long time ago are showing up but classes I took last year won’t show up. I went to the all courses tab and the classes I’m lo...

Is there a way to create a form that the TEACHER completes?   I need to have a Teacher fill out a Progress Report for each learner when they sit down and have a meeting with them.  It's not tied to a Course, but to the Learner.   Even a repeatable su...

If the discussion is set to "users must post before seeing replies," is there a way to allow the students to still see replies from their instructor? Many of our instructors like to post a "starter post" in their weekly discussions but we have them s...

We are having trouble with canvas on our ipad. We have been using it to access our children’s accounts since September with no issues. Now it won’t load eith of their accounts. We can’t see their dashboard, courses or anything. We have checked our se...

I'm looking for an option to create a quiz (say 10 questions) and have the lowest score (like question #4) be dropped from the grade automatically. This could be in Classic Quizzes or New Quizzes. I know that the lowest quiz can be dropped, but is th...

I have assignments due the day term ends. I don't want those assignments to count for third term; rather, I want it to be on fourth term's grades. If a student is absent I don't want them to get a 0, and I want to give students a chance to do late wo...

The link to the 3/16 deploy notes on the Canvas Releases page here in the community comes up as page not found. @erinhmcmillan (sorry if you weren't the right person to tag)

My school district is migrating from Schoology to Canvas. Our teachers have created rubrics in Schoology and would like to import them into Canvas.  Does anyone have a workflow that has worked for them? Is this even possible? I've been researching th...

Need simple guide to question types in New Quizes CategorizationEssayFile UploadFill in the BlankFormulaHot SpotMatchingMultiple AnswerMultiple ChoiceNumericOrderingTrue or False

Is there a way to stop having notifications of Canvas messages come to my company inbox?

Currently I am designing quizzes which allow maximum of 3 attempts.  For some quizzes, out of 10 questions, students only answer 1 question wrongly. However, when they take a second attempt, the screen shows all the questions in the quiz.  I want the...