Canvas Instructional Designers discussions

Canvas Instructional Designers questions and discussion forum

With all due respect to the designers of canvas, this new update is completely unnecessary, and makes it 10x harder to get through the school year. The previous design was perfect: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!! The fact that you can’t mark assign...

  • 2 Likes
  • 2 Replies

Hi, I missed the Intro to "Ingnite AI" presentation last week - does anyone have the recording? Is it active yet and if not when will it be available? Any information you could provide would be great. Cheers 

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies

Since AI tools make it terribly easy to generate a text - for instance an answer or a short essay - teachers at my school request a text box in which students can submit their response only by typing, making it impossible to copy-paste the work of ot...

  • 1 Likes
  • 1 Replies

I am trying to set up a mastery pathway option for students in my course. It's self select, so there is a "quiz" where they pick which option they want to complete. Option A is worth 2 points, Option B is worth 1 point. I have the mastery path set to...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

How do I uncross list my class when the "De-cross List" button is not available? Thank you!

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies

In the Files Redesign page, it is showing incorrect information for Blueprinted courses. I have a situation where a course was copied into and then associated as a blueprint all from the same course course. This duplicates items. All I have to do is ...

Community Participant
Canvas Question Forum
  • 0 Likes
  • 0 Replies

I wanted to bring to your attention an issue related to hiding grades from students in Canvas. At first glance, it seems that setting the Grade Posting Policy to "Manually Post Grades" would be sufficient to prevent students from viewing their scores...

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies

Hi, I am thinking to create questions within question bank using an API. As these questions are already available with me. Can you help me with Question bank API information, so i can use and push all the questions in the respective questions bank. A...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

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? 

  • 1 Likes
  • 2 Replies

This issue is with the resolution used by the Canvas Speedgrader when rendering PDF files. Canvas will "refresh" the pdfs at different resolutions depending on the zoom level chosen in the speedgrader pdf viewer, but also depending on the zoom level...

Community Explorer
Canvas Question Forum
  • 0 Likes
  • 0 Replies

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...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

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...

  • 0 Likes
  • 5 Replies

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...

  • 27 Likes
  • 24 Replies

I have created the letter grading scheme below. I want to give students a 4.1 on their assessments to show that they exceeded (A+) expectations. In the past, I would give students a 5 instead of a 4.1, but that pulled their overall grade up too much...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

There was a recent filter change in Canvas, and I thought I was going crazy. Turns out, my department was struggling too. In Speed Grader, when I moved from P1 to P2, it refused to show me P2 and kept showing me everyone. This led me down a rabbit ho...

Community Member
Canvas Question Forum
  • 1 Likes
  • 0 Replies

I have 2 Canvas courses, and then I am also added to 9 other courses as the coordinator.  Is there a way to prioritize my 2 courses so that my student work appears on the top of the To Do list?  Yes, I can "x" out the other 9 courses worth of work, b...

  • 0 Likes
  • 5 Replies

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...

  • 0 Likes
  • 9 Replies

When courses need major revisions, it would be helpful to export the content into a word document to share with the subject matter expert to reiview and suggest edits. Is there a way to download all course content and export it into word document for...

  • 2 Likes
  • 3 Replies

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...

Community Contributor
Canvas Question Forum
  • 2 Likes
  • 2 Replies

Hello, Our instructors have encountered a recurring issue with the SpeedGrader word count. When students submit documents that use the Aptos font (the new default in Microsoft Word), the word count displayed in SpeedGrader is incorrect. For example: ...

  • 1 Likes
  • 5 Replies

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...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

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...

Community Member
Canvas Question Forum
  • 0 Likes
  • 0 Replies

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 ...

  • 0 Likes
  • 3 Replies

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 ...

  • 0 Likes
  • 3 Replies

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 ...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

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 ...

  • 1 Likes
  • 2 Replies

I want to use differentiation tags to group students and then create a course pacing option based on the differentiation tag.  For example, we have full-time and part-time students (in the same section) part-time students get longer to complete the c...

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies

I am trying to assign an assignment to students but set two different lock dates so that students with extended time lock later than students who don't need extended time. I'd like to be able to do this without typing in each individual kid for every...

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies

I recently read that starting in April 2025 a new feature will be available for the video player: "Video playback controls will ensure that students engage with video learning content as intended by preventing them from skipping ahead or altering pla...

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies

Hello, I create all of my lecture notes in Dreamweaver and upload them into the Files section and then insert them into the Modules. In these lecture notes, I have embedded YouTube videos (I used the embed codes from YouTube). For almost a decade the...

  • 0 Likes
  • 8 Replies