I was working with a teacher who was having trouble with the grades for an assignment. She wanted to post the grades on the 4-3-2-1-0 scale and had set a Grading Scheme accordingly. The assignment was worth 12 points, and she wanted to enter the poin...

Is there a way for an instructor to see whether my students clicked on links I provided? I have a few links on pages and in assignment directions, and I'd like to see if students are actually accessing this information. I know that through analytics ...

The update described in the Deploy Notes (2024-19-09) changed how assignments with varying due dates display. Each assignment (not in Edit mode) used to specify which section was assigned to which date/time.  Now it just says "1 Section,"  which mean...

Administration wants students who drop left on the roster. I have set up Canvas to mark all missing assignments with a zero. I have to now manually change every zero to excused for the dropped student. Is there a way to mark all future assignments fo...

Our students have a number of optional units for each degree programme.We therefore need one virtual space where we can share frequently asked questions, discussion forums and handbooks which are relevant to all students on the programme regardless o...

We are looking for an option for students who need quizzes in Canvas read aloud to them. We know that Canvas is accessible with certain screenreaders, but we are specifically looking for something that just does text-to-speech (similar to the Immersi...

Hello team So when we create some sections in a course and we divide the students in them; will the students have visibility on the content of other sections?  Even if the two different sections have the same dates will the members of section A be ab...

We just discovered that when a teacher wishes to view group discussion posts in a previous semester (closed) course, that the Group Select option is not available on the discussion page.   The workaround is to go to People, click on the Groups tab an...

I am trying to import assessments in aXcelerate from CANVAS, it seems the integration setup is completed successfully but the import is still not working.. I have tested integration setup in aXcelerate and it looks all okay and connection verified su...

My Knewton browser keeps refreshing every minute or two. I have not found a fix for this and I am going crazy because I can barely type in the answer before it refreshes and makes me restart the problem. Do you guys have any advice?

I have an instructor who has a couple of courses that have suddenly lost the modules.  It's multiple courses over multiple years that no longer have the modules that he has built.  I've tried the undelete option.  I've also checked the course import ...

I am in the process of designing some Modules on Canvas to provide students with an interactive mock example of a client meeting. The module is designed as a "guided story" with quizzes that require students to choose the correct answer(s) in order t...

I am adding 100 questions to a question bank and am frustrated that there is no add question button after the last qwuestion added like in regular quizes???

Hi,I set a project as a group project where students can self-select their own groups. So far they've created their groups but when I grade one student, that score doesn't populate to the other group members. The "assign grades individually" box is n...

Hello everyone,I need to find a way to download all of my course files and media to my computer for offline use. Previously, I used access tokens to run an application for downloading the files, but my school has recently removed that feature. Can an...

The comment features for assignment submissions (i.e., when I, the instructor, give comments on student work) now enables rich text features. Good on ya, it's nice.However, the Canvas mobile apps display these comments in HTML markup (including HTML ...

I received the message below from one of my instructors. I have seen this a few times--the wrong person's work appears in Speedgrader. Is this a known glitch? Is there anything that contributes to or causes this issue? I have removed the student name...

Hi Canvas world,  I was wondering if there is a setting or easy way to copy a course and have that course be published by default?   Currently when I copy a course or import course content it resets the shell to unpublished.

I know that the word count will depend on the tools (MS Word, Libre Office, Online tools?).  To get a consistent word count, I ask my students to submit their weekly homework via Canvas and use the word count shown on the Rich Text Editor for referen...

Hi! I've been adding equations to pages using the equation tool. The problem I keep encountering is I can't seem to resize these equations. I can do it when they're just sitting freely on the page, but when I put them inside a table it appears there'...

We tried to use the API's to remove a faculty for a long list of courses. The API returned OK responses and when I go to the People Section of those courses the faculty has been removed, but the courses are still showing up for that faculty like they...

We are looking for a method for the instructors of a course to receive a notification (preferably via email) when a student submits a specific quiz in their course. I understand that course submission notifications can be turned on but that is not wh...

When using the "Attendance" feature (with the QR code check-in feature and the seat chart), about 2/3 of my students in every section of every course show up as "inactive", and they cannot check in.The "inactive" label only occurs in the "Attendance"...

I followed some online instructions that mentioned that unmerging courses with graded work is difficult, but didn't check other websites which mention that grades don't transfer. Is there anyway to access the old gradebook to get the grades and trans...

How do I give guest access to someone in a Canvas course?