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We have several tachers experince problems direct sharing new quizzes. They cant see the qustions when exporting. When I do it as admin i does work. Do you have a work around? BW/ Linus Österholm

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Is there meanwhile any way to download or print a rubric including grades and comments WITHOUT programming skills and workarounds (like taking tons of screenshots etc.)? Thanks

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I am using an android phone. I cannot attend the conference in BBB because when I am clicking the microphone button it's not working and it is always error. I can enter the conference but I can't use the microphone and I can't hear anything. When I a...

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I have a student who cannot submit annotation assignments. She is using Chrome, and after she annotates and hits submit, she gets an error that says TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'focus'). Then Canvas reloads the essay and delete...

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I’ve lost password to login https://sso.canvaslms.com/login/canvas My canvas email is k2150616@kingston.ac.uk I pressed the button "I forgot my password" and "Request the password" - but nothing has came to my email (it is written 30 minutes wait, bu...

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How can I mass delete the email in box in Canvas? Trying to clean this out is very time consuming and I don't need any of these emails. Thanks, Lynda Elaine University of Nebraska LincolnInstructor and Grad Student.

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If I accidentally click the send individual message to each recipient and i only wanted to send it to one person does it send to everyone?

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dont know how to school work

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We are struggling to find a good practice for students who move into the district during the year.  When a new student is entered into our SIS and then auto-enrolled in all of their Canvas courses, the student is assigned all of the work that was pre...

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Hi All, Hoping you can help.  I have a front page with a bitmoji on it.  Now when I make it the Homepage, it shows for seconds and then the entire page disappears.  Not sure what is going on...any ideas?  The same thing happens when I look at it in t...

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Is there a way to convert a standard canvas course to the elementary subject view?

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Hi, It would be great if items were sorted by their description when importing them from another course under the Settings tab.  Right now, there does not appear to be any logical order, which can make it difficult to find a particular item.

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Hi, I have the students view their results and on their end (student view) they do NOT see exactly which blank is wrong even AFTER I selected that students view their answers. 

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I do not understand this message:  "Importing the same course content more than once will overwrite any existing content in the course."  Here is what I want to do: I imported QUIZ from Course 2021 into Course 2022.  Then I edited it in Course 2022....

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I copied a course from last year that had a late penalty of 10% per day down to 60% policy.  This year I chose not to use the policy, so I unchecked it.  This morning, I had a concerned student approach me because he got notified (sometime Sunday nig...

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We have a year long course that has many different units in the course.  There are more than 100 assignments/quizzes in the entire course.   For our student management system we need them all in one course. We know we can limit access to parts of a c...

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I teach seniors to correctly format their cover letters and resumes in Word. I need to be able to SEE the formatting (light up the Hide/Show Formatting icon in Paragraph Menu) in order to grade the assignments. Can this capability be added? thank you...

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I have just set up recurring zoom meetings for my Arch 102 course. But I'm not finding where to invite my two teaching colleagues as alternate hosts.

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I was doing great in my class, submitting my assignments looking forward to the last day of this semester, and enjoying my holiday with my family. When I checked my grade it was an F. I looked to see what happened and the last 7 assignments that I su...

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Hi all, I have an instructor with 16 students enrolled in her course according to Banner, but when we check the enrollment in Canvas there are no students listed. As the campus admin I checked the course to verify that no students were showing. Just ...

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In my "Syllabus" tab, the "Course Summary" lists due dates for the current class.  That's fine. But at the bottom it also presents a list of obsolete items -- mostly empty calendars from previous courses!  These show up in the Student View as well an...

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Is there as easier than 1-at-a-time way to change several assignments (a) to "display as percent", and (b) the point values for the assignments? DETAILS: I use MyOpenMath LTI. When the assignments are imported to Canvas, they are automatically set to...

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I am using New Quizzes, assessing from the Quizzes link in the Modules View left navigation column. Building the new New Quizzes goes smoothly, I Save and Return. But I cannot bring them into the Modules view as an assignment.  When I click the + sig...

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Canvas disallows the display of question details when a question bank has 51 or more questions.   This is a problem because when uploading questions banks from publishers they will often have 51 or more questions. This means I cannot easily view the ...

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How do I put links to specific pages on my homepage  

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I am the teacher for my fraternity's canvas page. I added committee heads as TA's to the course so they could add events to the syllabus, but they are still required to obtain points I would grade. Is there a way to give them the permissions of a TA,...

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I'm afraid I'm really confused about question banks. What confuses me is where they are located. For example, if I have a quiz that pulls from a question bank in one course and I copy that entire course, does the question bank also automatically get ...

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In the past few days, students have received notification and lower grades for late work. I do have a late work penalty established in Canvas, but these are for assignments early in the semester. Any ideas about why this is occurring now and on a glo...

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I am a curriculum designer and would like to include some scoring guidelines on quizzes for graders or instructors.  They don't necessarily need to be seen by students.  Simply creating a rubric doesn't work because instructors will click on each par...

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Canva  is a free editor that lets you create arts hassle by phone. This application can be used to produce greeting cards, invitations, covers for social networks, and even resumes and collage audio from your phone. The great advantage of canva mod a...

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