Hello,  The Canvas video guides for students, instructors, and admins will be deprecated in December 2025. Where can I find a short video that provides an overview of Canvas's basic navigation for newly enrolled students? I could not find a video sho...

I'd like to know how others are indicating when a course in Canvas is either a "Core" course, or an "Elective" course. I was hoping to locate a field in the course settings that would indicate the "Type" or "Category" of the course, similar to the Co...

We have a faculty member who is interested in an AI tool that does the following:   After a student has submitted an assignment online, the tool analyzes the assignment, then generates a quiz based on the submitted assignment. The quiz would be time ...

Long story short I got injured.  My grading period ended last Friday 4/4.  We had until 4/11 to enter grades. We are on spring break and I have 3 assignments and random missing work to enter scores.  How can I do this?  Grades are not finalized til T...

Can you set access to an assignment or module to be based off the start of the course instead of specific due dates? So instead of a date-based due date, it would be a delta days-based due date with an assignment due 10 days from course start, etc. I...

Our students submit an assignment each week, receiving a grade each week; but all in the same category.  Currently, we use separate dropboxes/columns for each week, which becomes "messy" on the grade book. Is there a way to create a single assignment...

Hi all! I work in the Office of Assessment and Evaluation at my institution and we have just started utilizing the Canvas outcomes function. I would like to keep track of how many faculty have linked outcomes in their courses to assignments. Since th...

Hi, I have did a workshop with a lecturer that would like to set not only a whole module, but specific module items a date and time to be published at. I'm having trouble finding the right solution to this, or if it is even possible. I am aware that ...

Hi there,I'm currently using the open source version of Canvas LMS and was wondering if there are any plans to bring features like New Quizzes or other SaaS-exclusive functionalities to the open source version in the future.Additionally, is there an ...

I am using New Analytics Online Attendance.  Our weeks run from Monday to Sunday.  The default in online attendance is Sunday to Monday  - the Sunday of the previous week the way we look at weeks.  Is there a way to change the default Sunday to Satur...

Hello, I'm experiencing an issue when trying to display an HTML file in a Canvas Module. I uploaded a .zip file to the Files section and selected the main HTML file as the content for a module item. However, when I try to open it from the Module, the...

linked google doc assignments have disappeared from pre-created modules. Starting with this week's module, doc's that I've linked before (and used before) have suddenly disappeared. BUT, it still shows that I've linked it, it just doesn't show to me ...

I am attempting to access the DocViewer API.  I'm getting stuck on authentication.  I've tried various things, including the generic apikey, but I keep getting a 403 error.   I am writing in Python. The code looks like testdocumenturl = "https://canv...

Why are courses we add to Commons losing image links when they are copied to a course?

We have run into an issue where newly enrolled students have not been receiving the email from Instructure to confirm their email address. They do get the email when we manually re-send it but that is not a sustainable workflow to do for every new st...

I absolutely love that we can cut and past images into submission comments now. The only problem that I have is that I want it to automatically maintain the original dimensions of the image instead of it make it smaller. Instead, I have to manually c...

Hi Canvas Community,   Question. We have a teacher who has built a 100-line Python app in Streamlit and he would like to find a way to host it somewhere for his students to use, ideally via Canvas. Do you have any experience on this which you can sha...

I have written several exams on my PC in Canvas via UBC's website. I recently attemped a trial quiz in preparaton for a final exam and the Canvas system was running brutally slow and jumpy. I was unsuccessful in determining why after several hours wo...

I was previously able to indicate a negative score in the Rubric, but this function seems to have disappeared... is it possible to bring this back?I want to include/have included item(s) within the rubric to account for did/did not actions that will ...

I have a table and would like to make one of the columns wider.

It looks like Canvas retains the sis id even after deleting the record. We have built some integrations and would be re-running the same data few times as part of testing. I am unable to re-create the terms with sis id which i already deleted. I do n...

I am currently struggling with how to automatically remove students from sections that instructors are manually creating in their Canvas courses.  Here is the current situation.  Our students are enrolled into SIS course sections via API. The instruc...

Hola Solicito ayuda por favor para identificar qué puede estar pasando cuando un usuario se loguea con su correo electrónico por SSO de Microsoft y le sale el siguiente error.  

One of the students reported that Canvas is only showing that she completed the pre and post tests for module 11 in the Master Gardener Course but she has completed the entire module. How do I fix that?