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I have faculty who want a certain file to be available to students AFTER their second attempt on a quiz. I cannot find a feature that allows that in Canvas. We can do it after the first quiz attempt, but not the second. Am I missing something? 

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I have created an assignment that was in a locked module (open August 26th). I created self-sign up group set in the People tab a week before and also created a Discussion board that I then set to group assignment and connected the group set.As of to...

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Hello everyone, I’ve noticed that when I create a course manually in Canvas, students do not receive notifications for announcements. However, when courses are created and loaded through SIS, students do receive those announcement notifications. Is t...

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How to extract student responses from LTI quizzes (Canvas New Quizzes / Quizzes 2) via API.We're having trouble retrieving student responses to quizzes (Migrated Quizzes).We're using the API call below and are able to retrieve the title and questions...

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I have a new faculty member who created a course and began creating Question Banks in it using the Classic Quizzes engine. He had hoped to build question banks in this "Quiz Banks" course during the term and be able to use Find Questions to populate ...

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Google has rolled out a new "Homework Help" button in the URL bar of Chrome, and I just tested it out. During a Canvas quiz, if I click that button in the URL bar and select a quiz question in Canvas, it'll spit out the answer right in a sidebar with...

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Hello, We have just enabled an automated integration that allows our students, teachers, and courses to be pulled from our SIS to Canvas. Post-integration, we noticed that courses, students, and teachers from sections that will not be using Canvas we...

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Hello Canvas Community, We’re running a professional education course with two enrollment options: One with a final assessmentOne without a final assessment All other course content is identical. We decided to try cross-listing the two versions of th...

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Hi everyone, Where Can I find the client credentials for the canvas LMS Authentication as I am able login as a Teacher, Student or as a Parent but not as an Admin.

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Hi everyone, I’m looking for a way to generate a list of users who have been inactive in Canvas since a given date (e.g., no activity in the last year). Is there a Canvas API endpoint that can return users who have not had any activity since a specif...

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I am wondering if anyone has a workaround to set up blueprints so pages automatically lock when saved? I am experiencing an issue where staff are not locking their pages and their courses subsequently become unsynced. This is then creating other file...

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Hi, I was not able to join any groups, It's not available on my dashboard. I watched video and read instructions, but this feature is not available for me. i did not find where to join any group. Please advise. Kind Regards,Queila 

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So...I had been checking out the lessons (Since this is my first year at SUU) and I didn't know that when I had clicked on a quiz it had started. And my teacher hasn't gotten back in the past two days. is there anything I can do to reset the quiz? Pl...

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Prior to the ILP, our Course Titles included the Course Name Day and Time. (example: Art Appreciation MWF 1230) and our SIS ID included the Course Code, term, and CRN. (example AR1323-202430-30111)Our faculty members are missing the Day/Time in the c...

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I'm developing some course for electronic engineering student who are doing a 2 year diploma. Been asked if it is possible to create a quiz which the student will have to produce a series of formulas for, for example the answer to 1 of the questions ...

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The student view of grades should be the same, no matter which role a person has (provided they have permission to view a student's grades). Our middle school just switched to only showing students letter grades by using "Restrict view of quantitativ...

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Do students receive emails whenever attendance is updated? If so, can it be stopped? We've received complaints that ALL students in the course are emailed whenever a change is made. Thanks!

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Hi All. I have just been made an Admin within my organization (CEA CAPA International Education). In order to avoid that single faculty teaching courses might run the risk to not have the correct Grading Scale set in the Settings menu of their course...

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Hello, I'm a lecturer.I had started to create all my content in the courses that my institution had created for this academic year. And today when I log in, my dashboard is empty, and no courses, nothing. all the xork done, disappeared; Does someone ...

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Hi all, Since this morning, we have noticed a small UI update when Editing Assignments. The most obvious of these changes has been that made to the Submission Type box which previously listed all submission types in a single column but now appears to...

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I'm the full time Canvas admin at my school and I have been asked to create a custom role in the admin panel called "University College Data and Analytics". The higher ups are predicting a greater demand for "at-will" Academic access/insight into Can...

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I see in an archived post that some users were able to add code to only allow students to change thier Display Name (not ALL names).Here is the post:We were able to allow our students to change their Display Name without allowing them to change their...

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Why are users unenrolled from courses when past terms are no longer included in the sync?  If we do not include the previous year in our current sync, all users are removed from the previous school year SIS connected courses.  Teachers then can not v...

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Hello!I was hoping for some clarity on Display Name (aka preferred name) and where it will show in a Canvas course vs. some other name.  As far as I understand, Display Name shows inDiscussionsInbox (Conversations)AnnouncementsCommentsGroupsWhereas f...

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When when when will there be a feature to export discussions? I see requests for the feature (literally DOZENS chiming in) from 2015 onward. Is this anywhere on the horizon?? PLEASE?

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Before I started using Canvas, students would submit assignments on paper to me. These assignments would require students to write calculations/equations and solve problems.  I would then place a simple 'check mark' or 'x' by each question.  For the ...

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I need to restore a term. From the research I have done only Canvas can do that for me. This is Urgent, and needs to be resolved ASAP. 

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How do I find the Stadio academic policies especially on Academic Writing and Integrity, Plagiarism, etc.?

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I would like to be able to remove the class cards on the dashboard when not in use? I currently have classes from last semester still up and I just want to clear the dashboard for the new semester. Is there a way to do that or is it something I have ...

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Hello,   Has anyone installed the new Microsoft Teams LTI on test or beta instances? Did you encounter any issues? Thanks for any information.   Melissa

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