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Is it possible to export the list of active/inactive participants (or both) in a .csv or Excel file from Canvas?

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In Pages, there is an "Assign To" function that allows you to assign a page to a student/students.  In the student view, however, the page does not appear on their "To Do" list.  How do students know if a page has been assigned to them?

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Hi - I recently concluded a course and have now been notified that I need to save each quiz (with full question detail, i.e., the correct answer and what students see when they answer incorrectly) for purposes of submitting evidence to CACREP.  In th...

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While editing an announcement in my course, I encountered the following warning message: "Students have already submitted to this discussion, so group settings cannot be changed." I'm curious about how this warning applies to an announcement. What ex...

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My course is set up so that students must complete all items in a module before they move to the next one.One of the items in each module is a quiz. But the quiz has a deadline after which it is closed.I have not been able to determine if students wh...

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Hola, buenos días! donde se puede deshabilitar o configurar para que un estudiante NO PUEDA COMENZAR (crear) un nuevo curso???? Gracias!

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My teacher uploads content in these online module forms. However, when I try to backtrack or skip ahead, the module instead restarts from that slide. This happens sometimes, and sometimes it does not. I do not know what is causing this. This is debil...

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Hi I'm interested to know other school's best practices on using Canvas for Graduate School level.  Is anyone using Blueprint to show standard/template when populating Canvas content? If so, how was your experience?

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Just thirty minutes ago it was working and loading everything ok, but now when I am trying to click on the parts of a module that contain course materials like videos and what I am supposed to read it does not load anything except for the title of th...

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A rookie question, but is there a way to automatically propagate an instructor profile page across all his/her courses? (Rather than copy/pasting for every course.)

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Hiding date settings under the assign-to feature, not only adds hundreds of extra clicks to every teacher's workload, this new feature hides things teachers use for every single assignment assignment: available dates, due dates, and lock dates. It is...

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I really need to be able to import comments with individual grades. Much more important than one single overall grade comment that is in place now. Obviously the database has a place for this because we can ENTER comments for every single grade when ...

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Hello fellow Canvas-ers, I'm an Account Admin at our institution and for some reason, I can no longer change and save Course Settings. I often update terms or file storage size in current and old courses, but if I change them now, I can't save the ch...

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The “assign to” overhaul has been great to enhance the areas where you can apply this feature (Modules, Pages, etc). However, the change applied in the Assignment area now "hides" where to set due dates. This change may cause Instructors (particular...

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Hi. I'm an instructional designer trying to help one of our faculty members that is getting frustrated with students uploading documents into Discussions instead of pasting their written work into the body of the reply. Canvas provides a setting to d...

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I have a couple of questions about the Redirect Tool in Canvas: Can I bulk apply the same URL setup across all my courses after setting it up for one course?If an admin sets it up, can they apply it to multiple courses at once on behalf of teachers?

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Some of our faculty are going the route of dropping the two lowest grades. They have some assignments that they want excluded from being dropped. We were chatting about whether to do that by putting all "rule-qualifying" assignments in one group that...

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With the rollout of new Module Settings UI, when I try to lock a module or schedule a release date for a module, it defaults to the current time instead of 12:00 AM. In the attached screenshot, I've set the release date to July 23, 2024. The time def...

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When a short answer question needs to be graded, teachers click on the question number in the box under "The following questions need review:" Before the updates, when a teacher clicked that link to go directly to the question to be graded, only the ...

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The new format for announcements- discussions has a small creation box.  I can´t find a way to enlarge it other than full screen which is not helpful.  We use a lot of web tools and  pictures in announcements.  It´s difficult to create in that small ...

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I cannot change my setting back to the light mode. I have tried toggling the High Contrast slider in Settings.

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Greeting, dear reader. I am a student. How can hide the comments/feedback showing on my canvas student portal? Every time I login I see the grading appearing as feedback from my grade instructor. I know and have managed to hide grades from appearing ...

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I have several modules that are published in Canvas but my students cannot access them to post. All beginning and end due dates are current. The published module appears greyed out and it is showing locked. I am unable to unlock it and allow postings...

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I was approached by our leadership to brainstorm some ideas on how to bypass our current Module Requirements (we require every student to “score at least” 80 or above on an assignment before moving forward) I am attaching an example under one of the ...

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Playing with the new Lucid embed feature from the RCE and I get this error every time I try.... Anyone else?  

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I am building an e-learning course on Canvas for parents at a K-12 school and need to be able to add their email addresses before they create a Canvas account (one topic of the course).  This is my Capstone for my Masters in Education Technology and ...

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HelloI'd like to take Old and new testment competency exams as a new Mdiv student but those have not assigined to me. instead, Hebrew exam has been assgined to me. Could you please help?

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I'm a SAT tutor and I was wondering If I could integrate CollegeBoard's Bluebook app's interface for my quizzes so the students can be used to the ACTUAL interface of the test. A website that uses what I'm talking about is exam.satpanda.comThanks

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We have followed the initial setup steps provided in the documentation, including enabling the inherited developer key in Canvas. However, we are encountering difficulties in locating the specific configuration details required to complete the setup....

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