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kathrynmccullou · 2020-09-17

How do I remove an assignment uploaded incorrectly by a student?

erfoster391 · 2020-09-17

We are in the middle of setting up Canvas ALLY for Stanislaus State, and part of the support we want to set up is a team lead by a supervisor (myself) and a group of student assistants to support remediating content for accessibility. In the "Ally Re...

mas · 2020-09-16

I use a PowerPoint template to create all of my Storyline 360 presentations and then publish them as "Web" and use iframe tags to embed them into Canvas. Without changing anything on my end, the content area is now appearing blank in Canvas on my rec...

Reggie52 · 2020-09-16

I registered to canvas and can't pair as an observer with my son because I think I registered as a student. how can I fix this problem?

davidparks21 · 2020-09-16

I'm editing the syllabus of an existing class that someone else has set up. The column widths of the table are off. The 4th column with links should be big and the 1st & 2nd column with dates and names should be small, but the opposite is true. I'm v...

GSpray · 2020-09-14

When I go to grade an assignment on SpeedGrader, I get a screen that says "No Preview Available." I know the students have turned the assignment in, but I am unable to see it, grade it, or comment on it. This hasn't happened on all assignments, jus...

rislis · 2020-09-13

My students continue to get this message regarding the website is under heavy load.Interestingly, I find no advice when I search the Canvas Community for related searches.So, I decided to head to Google and this search shows me that this is a common ...

Fromen · 2020-09-12

I've got my class setup in a bit of a funky way this semester, largely because of COVID. The class has been split into 2 separate groups, where one group is delayed from the other by 1 class period (helps with social distancing in-class). This also m...

kdingle · 2020-09-10

Is there an "out of office" for "Auto Reply" feature in the Canvas messages so that I as the teacher can communicate to students and observers when I'm out of the office? If not it would be an incredible useful tool to have.

KathyS · 2020-09-09

Hi, every time I sync Canvas to Powerschool my grades are posted in Powerschool as points. We use percentages. Then for each assignment in each class, I have to go in and manually change from points to percentages. Is there a fix for this? Thank...

4381 · 2020-09-09

Hello, I am a post bacc student taking online classes and last week I ran into a very unusual issue. I took an online quiz and after I submitted all my answers, I noticed that on 2 of my questions, the answers that I selected were changed to somethin...

korslunds1 · 2020-09-08

In SpeedGrader when reviewing Multiple Dropdown type questions for a quiz created with Classic Quizzes, it has come to our attention that not all of the dropdown boxes will show in SpeedGrader view. The dropdown boxes will show for the student when t...

and08118 · 2020-09-07

I am an academic technologist helping a faculty member organize her Canvas site. We have a large class with 500+ students and 37 TAs. We are creating small active learning groups and would like to assign one TA per group. Is that possible? We have se...

anilan · 2020-09-05

Is it possible to assign different version of assignments to individual student without having to enter each student's name manually? I have 21 students who need modified assignments and 160 that do not and don't want to manually enter each name eac...

MrHughesScience · 2020-09-04

Good afternoon Canvas pros, I am new to Canvas this year. I successfully synced my grades to Infinite Campus but they are showing up as raw scores. I would like to sync grades to Infinite Campus as percentages so all of my assignments have equal we...

erica_wagner · 2020-09-02

I've been using Canvas's on board messaging feature to send messages to students within canvas class sections, as I have been unable to find a simple way to access canvas class lists via my campus e-mail (the student replies to go to my e-mail, howev...

stephmartin · 2020-08-31

Hello! I have a canvas course for students in grades K-5. I have create a section for each grade level. I was wondering if there was a way to limit pages to certain sections? i.e. I made a 5th grade page and only want students in the section "5th gra...

sboxleiter · 2020-08-31

In GRADEBOOK I have categories that I want to delete (For example, QUIZ, TEST, ASSIGNMENT, HOMEWORK). I cannot find the location to edit and delete these. Can anyone help?

dan_temple · 2020-08-31

Recently set up a local Canvas server according to the Quickstart guide (very nice guide, worked first time). All was well for a day. Could log in, create modules, developer keys etc etc. Then, all login attempts started failing with a message "Inval...

mklenk · 2020-08-29

I have a new class with 6 sections (plus a "test" section that I used to experiment this summer). I had my kids respond to a graded discussion in class yesterday. The discussion worked fine. Kids responded. The discussion shows up in my "to do" list ...

mmtscn · 2020-08-26

Hello, I want to change the lock_at date of quizzes/exams for individual students via API. In Canvas LMS - REST API and Extensions Documentation → Create an assignment overrideOne of the required parameters is "assignment_override[title]". I don't kn...

grant5721 · 2020-08-26

Whenever I receive a message via my canvas inbox I receive an email notifying me of the message. I would like to respond to the message through my email, but, when trying to do so, I am told, "To reply to Canvas messages from this email, it must firs...

philmac · 2020-08-26

Hi all, might not be the right place, but I thought I would ask. I notice that there have been a couple of discussions mentioning the unlocking of module requirements for a specific user :https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Group/Unlock-a-specif...

klaplant · 2020-08-26

Hello everyone,I'm quite new to Canvas so I apologize if this question has already been answered elsewhere. I am working in a course shell to familiarize myself with the content and tried to create a custom homepage that my students will see when the...

kelsey_sears · 2020-08-26

I accidentally synced an assignment to synergy under the wrong assignment group. Now I cannot edit the assignment in synergy or delete it. I have tried editing the assignment group on both the synergy and canvas sides but it will not change the assig...

awray2 · 2020-08-25

i took a test that i posted in canvas as a test student. now i can not delete it and can not unpublish the quiz. HELP!

kmarengo · 2020-08-25

Canvas Catalog, Is there an ability to receive an email alert or confirmation that someone has registered for a catalog course instead of pulling the analytic reports @catalog

cdollar · 2020-08-22

I copied a course from last semester. The image files that were copied over will not publish even when I click on the publish button. It just keeps the default "Only available to students with link". The folder that the files are in is also hidden an...

devynmillyard · 2020-08-22

I teach 2 periods of the same courses so I created my Homepage and content in one course of each with the intent to copy it over to the other course so that I only had to do the work once. When I import the course, the image files are not copying ov...

thebohomama · 2020-08-21

I've just signed both my daughters in for the first time, as the links were sent to my (the parent) email. So, it logged them both in with my email and then asked me if I wanted to link the student accounts. I did not realize at the time we could cre...

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