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what can i do to get my grades up can you help me 

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Good Morning,    I have logged into Canvas multiple times, and each time, large black and white symbols of the original task bar complete the whole page. This has been happening for the past two days now. I need to get into Canvas to complete the res...

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Good Day All, We've run into an issue with our recent exam where students were prompted with an "access code required" pop up during their exam. We have never set access codes on Canvas or Proctorio and when checking this in the settings on the day, ...

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Hi, My gut feeling is that this is a no. I have an tutor asking if there is anyway that when a particular group of student login to Canvas that they go to a 'home' page, which would have links to their other courses. Told the tutor that it was a no g...

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Hi All,I have been trying to work out how to do a bulk download for all student submissions. So if a student has 2+ submissions, the bulk download button will only download the most recent submission.I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist, and I was goin...

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Hi!How can I make Canvas send notifications to administrators when a user accepts an invitation and confirms their account or what can I know it? My user role is administrator.

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I am looking for an easy way to retrieve a listing of courses that have Quizzes (Classic and New) set up in our school's Canvas instance. What would be the most easy way to generate this info? I am only looking for course id, name and a yes or no col...

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We're using the course_completed data stream to process some integrations upon students completing a course. This is working fine. We are facing a challenge with some faculty changing what it means to have a course "complete". For example, in one cou...

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I followed the directions for uploading captions to a video and all the captions show up in the very beginning of the video. Does anyone know why this is happening?

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When trying to add a YouTube video from the apps under tools, the YouTube app won't open, so there is no way to search for or embed a video. I uploaded an image to show what happened.  I have tried using Safari, Microsoft, and Google web browsers.  A...

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Hello!I work in accessibility of online courses.  I recommend instructors write alternative text to be as extensive as needed to relay the essential detail or data of an image or graphic to students. While Canvas has an excellent platform that allows...

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Is there any way to reformat multiple pages in a Canvas Course or does that need to be done individually? 

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Problem If a teacher wants to test out an assignment submission, they should do this in 'Student View' am I correct? But currently, it seems the item must be published first (ie: visible and available to students!). Suggested change If so, the canvas...

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Hello!  I enabled the Microsoft Immersive reader and I can see and use it while in the author/teacher view. But When I turn on Student view it doe not show up.  I made sure Pages was enabled and also Microsoft is updated as well. I am just confused w...

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Good day Kindly note my assignment upload doesn't haven't upload option, it's only submit here button but no option to upload please aKind regards Gracious 

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Is it possible to allow faculty users to upload pictures in their profile but not students?

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When enabling tasks for specific users after the task expiration closes, these results have been overwritten for the original task. How can I recover the original results?

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I recorded 3 teaching modules on Sunday (from one Zoom meeting). I understand how to copy the link and paste into Canvas. But I'd like to download and have these for more than 180 days. But each recording is 4-7 files. I'm confused about why there ar...

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I am trying to answer an audit which requires dated training logs. Is there a way in gradebook to pull WHEN an assignment was completed?

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I have used CANVAS for about 12 years now.   Recently, I've had 2 x student submissions that seem to have been "back dated" to reveal the assignment was on time, even though when I checked CANVAS initially, there was NO submission, and I always type,...

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I am trying to submit a mp4 video to my dicussion board and it won't let me submit it. What do I do? Do I need to export it to another file type? If so how do I do that? 

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Hi Wondering is ther any way of finding out what courses tutors/instructors have been added to?   Any clues.

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I need to produce a CSV file that lists which Courses have Quizzes.

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My use case is to search a list courses that contain Classic Quizzes and to list any Quizzes that have "shuffle_answers":true and that contain one or more questions that have "All of the above" as a answer or distractor. Unfortunately we have thousan...

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Hi there,  I'm looking for a very specific kind of function and unsure whether or not there's a good way to do what I'm looking for in Canvas. ContextI teach AP U.S. History and one of the key kinds of assessments is the DBQ (Document-Based-Question)...

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Canvas Links in Google Slides?  I want to put a link to a canvas assignment or quiz in my Google slides.  I know how to do this... My question is what do folks do this from course year to course year.  I find that my Canvas links will change from yea...

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Is there any way to use an API call to run the "Validate Links in Content" on a specific group of Courses? If not is there a better method than writing an Auto Hot Key script to open the Course and then press the button for me? I have about 300 Cours...

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The output from the free draw icon is in the upper left corner of the bounding box for the icon instead of the lower left where the "point" of the pen icon is. This happens with both mouse and stylus applications in both chrome and firefox. I am on a...

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