In your experience with Canvas, you or your colleagues may have seen an announcement in Canvas with an invitation to participate in a survey. If you followed the link, you were asked to answer the following question: “How likely is it that you would ...

As an administrator of Canvas LMS, you'll be thrilled to hear about the latest offering from Instructure: Canvas Archiving. This innovative solution, developed in partnership with K16 Solutions, empowers you to seamlessly archive course content and s...

Great news for our Canvas Field Admins who are also Mastery Connect users! We're excited to inform you that you can now seamlessly manage your support needs for both Canvas and Mastery Connect right from the Canvas Field Admin console.

Unlock the power to effortlessly convert Canvas course syllabi into PDFs and check if a course lacks syllabus content with this Canvas API and Python solution!

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology and innovation, staying up-to-date with the latest tools, platforms, and methodologies is crucial for personal and professional growth. New users in any field often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer...

Learn how to efficiently generate Canvas pairing codes on-demand using Google Apps Script and the Canvas API, especially useful for administrators. Ensure you have the necessary permissions to create observer codes in your Canvas instance for seamles...

We are a K12 district and, especially at the start of the school year, there are a lot of changes made in Synergy SIS, for example: teachers might get reassigned to teach a different class, or perhaps the course code needs correcting in Synergy.    (...

Struggling with editing users or courses lacking SIS IDs in Canvas? Discover an ingenious solution using Google Apps Script, enabling effortless bulk assignment of SIS IDs to streamline your administrative tasks.

I used Google Apps Script and the Canvas API to create a solution for addressing frustrations caused by SIS Import issues, including failures, accidental deletions, and lack of notifications for hanging imports or changes in Canvas.

Wanting to learn more about the differences between the production and beta environments? Look no further than this blog post! 

In this post, I am going to show you how to use this Google Sheet to bulk merge users and as a bonus unmerge them.

The purpose of this document is to outline various best practices, resources, reminders, workflows, and processes for Canvas Admins to stay cognizant of throughout their Canvas Customer lifecycle. The goal of this document is to help Canvas Admins st...

As administrators, you are the backbone of your organization's operations, and we understand that your time is valuable. That's why we’re excited to introduce a few small but significant Field Admin Console updates. These updates were made July 14, 2...

It was a long time before we started even considering Blueprints on Canvas for our courses, and although we haven’t started using them on our Core or Elective teaching courses, we have found a use for Blueprints working with our Careers Centre. With ...

In this post, you will find the error codes the SAML debugger returns and the resolution to solve them. 

A blog post from a Technical CSM about the common trust questions I see!

I get asked often how we use our custom SIS Imports rostering and why we choose to take that path. After writing nearly the same summary over and over again, and then emailing it to the requester during the last several years, I thought I’d write it ...

When we were young and dumb, we just created a sub-account structure that mimicked what we had in our SIS. Geez, what a mistake! If you are new, spend time thinking/planning your account structure.

At Beaverton School District we've been syncing Parent/Observer accounts from our SIS for several years. Many times, we've been asked how to do this, so I thought I'd go ahead and document it here. I'm also eager to hear from the community your thoug...

We are so excited to better understand your holistic experience with all of the key Customer Experience teams at Instructure.

Hi all,We had 2 instructors call today panicked that they couldn't start their Zooms from Canvas. I did some digging and found that on certain computers when enhanced tracking protection is on in Firefox, Canvas can't make the connection to zoom and ...

The complete custom javascript code used at Oregon State University to add an item to the Global Navigation menu.

Due to an unexpected service incident, users of Turnitin solutions may have experienced an unexpected service disruption. Our team encountered the incident between the following times: PDT September 14th 14:10 to September 14th 16:44BST September 14t...

On behalf of our product team, I'm enlisting your help to find out what you think about Canvas release resources. Please see the full post in our Product Blog. Thanks, Erin

Canvas seems overwhelming for those that are just getting started but the best advice to to choose one feature at a time to add to your course and try out.  Check out my article on Conquering Canvas, one feature at a time.

Congratulations on making it to the end of what has likely been one of the most challenging years in education! As the CSM team begins to get questions from Canvas Admin about what they need to be doing to prepare for the end of the year, we decided ...