Somehow my speed grader is sorting students in reverse abc order. The list starts with my Z's and has A (last names) at the end of the list. I tried randomizing and resorting, and the gradebook is sorted normally. Any suggestions?

I try to log in as a teacher, but it's only showing my parent account. This didn't happen the first three years I've used Canvas. Please help now, school starts tomorrow! Got no help yesterday, getting desperate... 

I have come across several instances of teachers reaching out after creating a quiz, sharing the quiz with another teacher using "send to" and then the recipient can see it in their 'shared with me" content, but when we try to import it into a course...

I teach at a popular online university and must comment on almost every student's assignments. Is there a way to have a predefined comment such as "please use APA v7 formmatting when submitting your assignments". This gets very tedious during the fir...

I run a Culinary school, and we've switched to Canvas this year.  I typically use attendance/participation as a large portion of each students grade, as we are primarily teaching hands on principles, with limited canvas based assignments.  Is there a...

My students submit mock-ups, physical models, working prototypes, or make a presentation or give a talk. Canvas only features No submission/Online/On paper/External tool. What can I do? The Canvas online help offers no advice.

All assignments have the same availability and due date, and in the student's Grades view, their order is messed up; also one assignment, despite comparison with all other assignments, shows the "-" sign instead of the "crossed out eye" symbol. What ...

My students show up in alphabetical order from z-a instead of a-z.  It only appears this way on my computers, yet on my iPad they are in alphabetical order when I go to my to do list to grade. I have sorted to list alphabetically, but they are still ...

I am an accounting professor and need some help creating a quiz. The issue is that I need to create a table for journal entries. (I am currently having students upload a word/excel file). I can see how to do multiple drop down and multiple fill in th...

Most of our 2023/2024 courses are still active after their end date.  I'm new to the Canvas Admin role and was wondering if this is what they should show?  I ran a provisioning report to check their status and that confirmed that many were listed as ...

I would like to understand that even when I check "This is a Group Assignment", how come I still get the option to select Everyone from under 'Assign To"? What does this signify?

Hi @chriscas  I hope you're doing well. I’m encountering an issue when trying to create users via CSV upload in SIS Import on Canvas. The users are being created successfully, but their email addresses are not appearing in the LMS. Instead, only thei...

We have a course which has the visibility settings set to Institution, which enables users of the account to have access. However, we have students in the People and therefore analytics linked to this course who do not attend the college anymore. The...

I am trying to book an appointment for N95 fit testing, which my instructors say can be done through the "Find Appointment" button on the Canvas calendar tab. I have booked appointments this way before, however this time as I am trying to book an app...

Does anyone know of any third-party Canvas apps that can extend the type and scope of question types (and response types) for new or classic quizzes?

My outcomes in canvas for Ohio Science Standards are still from 2011 even though they have been updated since. I have asked my technology department and they have said they have contacted canvas. 

I am a tech coach and a teacher came to me with an issue I have never seen. When she is looking at a Module, she is seeing these boxes instead of the green publishing circles. It was working one day and then changed on her. No one else, that I know o...

Our institution just switched from Blackboard to Canvas. I rely heavily upon SCORM in one of my online classes, and everything worked well in Blackboard. One major issue with using SCORM in Canvas, however, is that Canvas only keeps the most recent g...

I have imported staff as students to a training course using the SIS Import CSV I used the fields: course_id, user_id, role and status The staff are added to the course but their role name is Student observing: nobody instead of just Student Is there...

The redirect tool is not showing up when you filter by name in the search bar.  When I go and manually add it tells me that it has already been added, but it doesn't show up when searching for it. I need to use the redirect tool to add a google doc i...

The process for one page is: open the pageclick "Edit"scroll downfind "Add to student to-do" box and click itenter dateclick "Save" I need to do this for some 100 pages! Is there a simpler way than going through all those steps for each page? Also, I...

In the Canvas Gradebook, there was an option in the Grade column for an assignment to send a Canvas message to students who were missing the assignment.  Where did this go?  This is frustrating as a teacher who wishes to send communication quickly to...

We will be creating questions banks, each with about 300-400 questions. The total number of questions across all assigned readings will be in the thousands. It will be almost impossible to manually add titles, alighn outcomes, and add tags to each qu...

Hello Dear Reader!I'm struggling to get my code block to save and display properly when utilizing the embedding function in a Page; it quite literally only saves and runs the first 27 lines of code.Any suggestions or fixes?Code:"""<!DOCTYPE html><htm...