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I can log into Canvas on my computer and access my classes, but cannot log in on my phone app. (I can log in on the website on my phone). From the app, it says "webpage unavailable" when I type and press on the school's name. If I press "forgot my pa...

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Has anyone here transitioned from Blackboard Ultra/Blackboard 9.1 to Canvas that would be willing to have a conversation about the experience? 

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When migrating a quiz from classic to new any question-level feedback for answering the question correctly is migrated as correct answer feedback overriding any existing answer-level feedback for that answer option and creating answer-level feedback ...

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HI A staff member is saying that they never turned off anonymity 'Graders cannot view student names' in an assignment. Is there any data in the background of canvas that records when and who changed this setting please? ta jim  

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Estimados estudiantes les saludamos desde la facultad de derecho de UMG  Iniciaremos la actividad docente vía virtual durante este semestre Les envío un archivo adjunto XXX EJERCICO. 

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Hi, I'm trying to use (and perhaps incorrectly) the Discussion feature to take attendance, which is also worth bonus points. Since there's no bonus point functionality, I've created the Discussion as zero points and then graded the discussion as .5 p...

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No one has fixed my account yet.I can't access my school email account.

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Teachers must have their courses ready for delivery 30 days in advance. I´m in need of a good report that can provide us with the information needed to assess the alignment with organizational policies. Specificly we are in need to pull the data out,...

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How can I stop school notification emails from being sent to grandparents? Thanks in advance.  

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We upload 200-300 new students every 2 weeks to one of a dozen courses. Is there a way to import only First Name, Last Name, and email address into Canvas through a CSV file?  The only things I can find require additional information such as user ID,...

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Our institution does not allow students to access course content after a course ends. Is there a setting that will allow students to view their course grades after the course concludes without also allowing them to view the course content? Going to C...

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Undo the Gradebook Missing Status Removal In a recent Canvas update, the Missing label for submissions that have not been submitted online but that have received a manually entered grade has been removed. This is extremely problematic for me and othe...

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I have my gradebook set up to automatically assign a zero for late work.  However, certain assignments I make optional and so need to take off the "missing" label and delete the zero.  I am able to remove the "missing" label and delete the zero but l...

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As a Canvas admin; Is it possible to find a history/log of publish/unpublish activities on a Canvas element? We have a quiz that is unpublished, but have submissions from students. Can I find out if the Quiz at some point in time have been published ...

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I noticed some of my classmates have personalized their canvas dashboard by putting their own images on the canvas courses. I have read up on how to do it, but my classes lack the "Settings" button on the the side of the course when you click on it. ...

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Another Professor has shared her "sandbox" with me. I noticed she has little icons within her modules. Where did she get this modules and how did she attach them to the text items within the module? I don't want to bother her with such a question, bu...

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Have had a few instructors today comment that the recording to cloud option in Webex meetings within Canvas was greyed out.  Anyone else experiencing or has resolved this issue?  Thanks in advance!  -RL

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I am a TA for a course that has 2 section, an honors and non-honors version. The default course name is that of the honors version and my professor was interested in knowing if we could change the name to the non-honors version. I think Canvas recogn...

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Hi all. My institution is currently going through the transition from Blackboard to Canvas, and we are all busy exporting course content from the old LMS to the new one. I have recently imported tests that contained embedded images in Blackboard, how...

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I took over a class midway through last semester from a departing teacher.  I have been working on getting the students back into a rhythm with assignments, but it is difficult as every few days all the students are marked as "Inactive" and I have to...

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I don't have a groups tab to access groups through the ASU canvas portal. Where can I find them? 

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All of my posts look like this in Safari. Text overlaps at the top so I am unable to edit anything or see the first few lines clearly. 

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Does the course summary on the syllabus change for students: - when a due date has passed; is there some kind of indicator that the assignment is past due? - when a student has successfully completed an assignment; is there an indicator to them that ...

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I have a teacher that's set a GIF as a course view card, but since it shows up on every assignment in the List view, I'd much prefer if it was a static image of the first frame or something.

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Hi!  Finally there is an option to use backgrounds in BBB!  But as far as I can see you still can't add your own backgrounds, you can only choose the ones that BBB has uploaded themselves. Hopefully I am wrong, though.  Is there any way of adding y...

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We have different ways of assessing depending on the attendance of our students. Thus, we have continuous evaluation and non-continuous evaluation. And these two types have different percentages for the asignments. Can Canvas calculate different perc...

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Hi, I need to attach a separate rubric for each question in an assignment so the results will sync as separate marks to Sentral markbook. Is this possible? I checked the community and the last query was in 2018 so I am hoping it has changed since the...

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I'm trying peer review out for the first time, and I'd like to know whether I can have the students post their work in a discussion board and let them all look at everything before assigning peer reviews. In other words, if the assignment is due/clos...

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I recently have a question about my grade. So, the canvas student app shows different letter grade with my browser canvas. So, when I go to my course and click "grade" on canvas app, it shows 94% (C+), however, the browser shows 94% (A). And my teach...

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I copied a course for our new 2022 Cohort, updated and published it last Friday, and only enrolled the new students. Two things have occurred which I hope someone can advise on please: One of the 2021 students received a notification of a "new event"...

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