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Hi there! I set up groups to work in Collaborations and these groups appear on my desktop from home.  However, my students and I are unable to access these groups in Collaborations in the classroom. Any idea what might be happening? Thank you!

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Hello, Admins for the instructure websites. Could you make a darkmode for the springfield.public.schools GUI??

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Hi, is there a phone number I can call? I am one of the new Board Advisors for the UCSB Women in Leadership program and am taking the course. I seem to be stuck in Module 1. I have been listening to many, many hours of great videos but believe most a...

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Hello, It would be helpful if Integration ID could be included in Grade export. Currently, it is possible to view Integration ID in Grades, however it cannot be exported along with the Grades. Thank you

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Hi - we have a course that's deeply integrated with McGraw Hill Connect. We're using a lot of graded activities from Connect, but we are also using videos, chapter readings, etc. that are not graded. We want to deeply link (a 1:1 mapping) from Canvas...

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When I first create a course, before any students join, I want to set the default grade for any assignment to Zero or Incomplete so that when a student joins that default grade is automatically entered. I have searched for a way to do this but have b...

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I am using the new quiz feature for a weekly short answer quiz. Is there a way to show "no grade" until I grade it? Right now it's showing a "0". Thanks!

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Hello. I am new to Canvas and currently watching the introduction tutorial videos. In the third video (RCE) I notice there are a whole list of options on the left of the screen in the "Course" Tab However on my account I only see 3. Home, Modules, an...

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On the Moderate The Quiz page, ungraded practice quiz scores default to 0.  That should not be since zero is a valid score.  Since there is already an indicator when a student is finished with the quiz, the score should show as ungraded or simply lef...

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I have the following message coming up for multiple links to documents in multiple blueprint courses: External links in this resource were unreachable:  download?wrap=1 However the links do download/open for me. I have tried the following: uploaded ...

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One of my old courses kept show up in my favorite list. It was a class from fall 2020. Each time, I would un-favoriate it. And a few days later it'll show up in my favorite list again. What might be the cause of this? How would I solve it?  

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I have recently been annoyed at the amount of announcements in my announcement box as a student. I went through and deleted some of the lecturers announcements but paused to think whether this was deleting the announcements for for the rest of the st...

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I’ve set up my current semester course in Canvas, which is a recurring course each semester. I imported course components from an earlier semester (a.k.a., Existing Content), including some Assignments. Then, I updated some Assignments for the curren...

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I am taking a class at Miramar College this semester that is part lecture and part lab. How do I listen to the lectures in Canvas? Will it be clear to me on the first day of class?

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I have 3 sections by course, and all of them interacts into Discussions. How can I do, the students don't see between sections each other and can participates  into discussions or another funtions of canvas, only in their sections

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Please make the order of the To Do list on the Dashboard to be in order of submission, such that the most recent item submitted is added to the end of the list, rather than the beginning. I use the To Do to grade assignments and would like to grade t...

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REAL SOLUTION UPDATE: Given that this problem was inaccurately flagged as solved, I am leading this revision with the actual solution that comes from Canvas engineering. If one ventures into generating XML code for automated QTI generation, know that...

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 Is it easy to submit a group assignment?

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Hello, Are students able to change or add to a calendar created by an instructor? Can faculty change or add to a calendar created by a faculty member? Thank you.  Michelle Michelle.spitler@steward.org 

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Is there a way to have Teachers in a course view all students' names but only have a certain set of students assigned for grading? Right now, we have Teachers in our courses that are assigned to different sections of the course, which each have diffe...

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According to this Forbes website and countless others, Chrome 100 will break several websites, especially older ones, based on their article in December 2021. In summary, the issue could potentially be: "The reason for this is these sites check the v...

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For a course I'm teaching, I would like to have students' grades determined using a "Best of two options" approach.  Something along the lines of: "Your grade will be determined by the higher average from Option 1: HW 20%, Midterm 20%, Discussion 20%...

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How do I give students multiple chances to improve their score?

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How does one do gated content in a Canvas course?  I have a video that I want students to see AFTER they read a page.  I doesn't look like our instance Canvas supports that level of access control like Moodle's activity completion tracking.  

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I use SIS Import to import a course and it says it was successful. However when I go to look for it I cannot find it anywhere. I have no idea as to what is going on. In the past this worked perfectly but for some strange reason something seems to be ...

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I am a 4th grade math teacher (instructor), I have attached two different written responses where the student's answer had red box in  the answer. Why would this happen? Is the student copying and pasting their answer from somewhere? If that is the c...

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Despite my older email no longer being associated with my Canvas account, I still get notifications to that email. I have added a new one and set it as my default, yet receive nothing to that one. Anybody have a fix for this?

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Does anyone have a good trick for marking a student absent in the gradebook.  For example, I give an assignment and if a student is absent, I want something in the column that shows that the score is missing because the student was absent.  It would ...

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