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I created a Canvas Free-for-Teacher course and invited two persons to join. This was back in June 2023. Both accepted, and the course has been going on throughout the summer. We all have been posting content to Discussions, and everything was proceed...

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I created a Canvas Free-for-Teacher course for myself and two other poets who wanted to have a place to post drafts of poems and submit comments. We've been using this Canvas FFT course for a couple of months, then suddenly, today, the two people who...

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To keep the LMS from randomly accessing all the questions from a question bank for a quiz, I am told I have to either delete the questions from the bank that I don't want used or post the same number of questions in the question bank. How do I save a...

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Hello! I am using Canvas Free-For-Teacher. I was wondering, is there any possible way that I can add the Groups icon to the global navigation bar for me and other instructors?   Of course, I can access all the student groups I have my students organi...

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We have submitted several support tickets at the admin level and no one has responded.  We can't get our grade passback to Infinite Campus to work and we have been working on it for about 10 days with no response.  What is the best method for admin t...

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Hello.I am looking into the best way to mark students as needingADA accommodations. What I have seen elsewhere is an "ADA" flag that is visible in the roster to faculty, but not other students. I know I can add "ADA" in the notes column in a course b...

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When entering grades I receive this error “There was a problem updating the submission.”  I have several courses and over 50 students.  Only 2 students have this problem with their profile when I enter grades for every assignment.  They have been rem...

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The Learning Mastery Gradebook view for teachers is very easy to look at, and allows the teacher to see their class/students' progress on their Outcomes "at a glance".  Students should also have this option to view their Outcomes progress in a simila...

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ProblemMy courses use the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as Outcomes.  As such, the names of the Outcomes are alphanumeric identifiers, and are largely meaningless to students (as well as to myself as the teacher, as I do not have the hundreds of...

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I received the add code for a class a few days after the semester started and enrolled successfully in that class. But that class was not published/appeared in my Courses section. It should be 6 classes that are showing up in my planner/schedule but ...

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Is there anyway to delete more than one question at a time? I just imported a test bank of 123 questions. I know Moodle was very easy to manage the test bank.Please advise Steve

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Will I see all incoming emails to my children from all teachers in my inbox or will I only see them when I'm copied on them?

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Hi,I combined two sections of my course, which was super easy to do. I have a few discussion boards and it's easy to separate the discussion boards by section, but there isn't an option to grade the discussion boards if they are separated by section....

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 can anyone tell me how to create a table like this in k12 canvas? that has that big white gap in the middle

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I've searched the forums but I can't find the solution to this problem.  I have a student who has met the module's prerequisite (a discussion board which I did grade for him) but the next module is still locked.  Other students are able to proceed.  ...

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My class (CS234) shows in canvas but when I click on the link, it opens as blank in everything (module, assignments, ect.)

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Problem - New outcomes format streamlines the rubric which is great but there is no way to customize beyond that. This is causing a huge headache as I outline rubrics as steps and cannot cleanly write in the steps a student needs to take to reach the...

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Good Day, I was enrolled in a Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management for Law Enforcement about a month ago.  I believe I may have waited too long to start because the modules are no longer available even though the course ends on September 3.

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I am a student and for my algebra class in order to take my essays which are a major part of my grade I need Lockdown Browser. I physically cannot open my essays without Lockdown Browser. The version my professor provided only runs windows 10 and I a...

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Noticed an Airplane quiz icon, but did not receive a notification through canvas alerts.   has anyone run a test to verify that creating a quiz with an airplane icon actually will trigger a notification? If so - what is the category of the notificati...

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How do I retrieve canvas data of a student removed from the canvas program?

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My dashboard only goes to my To Do list now ever since I made the mistake of clicking on it. There is absolutely no way to return to my original dashboard, despite a solution to a similar issue stating that there a drop window to switch the view mode...

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Hello, I have a question. How can I delete a message that I sent to my professor as a reply to his message on my assignment? Additionally, is there a guide available for the various icons on Canvas? I have noticed a blue dot next to some of my assign...

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I have a professor who is using an external tool in assignments. However, when the external tool is added to the assignment, everything in the text field above (where the summary for the assignment would go) is deleted. Is this supposed to happen? Do...

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if I copy a Canvas course using the import tool as shown in image, will it overwrite the existing course or will it save as a new (second) version of the current one? Just a bit unclear and nervous about the warning message shown in the image - I don...

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Is there an option to have students sorted by First Name in Speed Grader? It would make a big difference to my efficiency in marking some of their work.

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Is it possible to set the numeric grades in a course to show to the tenth decimal only? It currently shows to the hundredth. I've seen some posts that say it's possible to change it but wasn't sure how to make the changes.

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I came in conflict with an error on an exam i was trying to take the exam but it said before I could I would have to get the code from my instructor.  So, i backed out texted them through the inbox told me what i had to do then once i went back it sa...

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