I am petitioning to keep most of the current Canvas Overview videos or for Canvas to update them.  The "shorts" in the Guides are not the best.  A lot of them are AI-generated and basically read the Guide.  It takes forever to find videos for the sam...

Hi all, I understand there is no quick way to transfer grades from one class in an account to another for the same student who has swapped classes with the same assignments. I know it can be done using an export and import (this is the method we use ...

Hello, This is the first time in 5 years that I am creating a subaccount admin role and wanted advice from others. The default subaccount admin role has all permissions enabled. I've gone through all the permissions and although I know everyone's nee...

I have recently started a new job that made me a Canvas administrator, and I need help understanding a discrepancy involving Outcome Proficiency Ratings. Context: I am an admin in two different instances of Canvas. One instance belongs to my company,...

Hello community: For starters, I'm not a developer, but have a general understanding. For context, we are a for-profit trade school. As a SIS, we are using a CRM called Method.Me. Method uses REST APIWhat we are trying to accomplish is to pull grades...

Is it possible to share stock banner/header images in a way that they are available to ALL courses? We'd like to have a collection of stock banner images that IDs or faculty can insert into the home page and other pages of their courses for consisten...

When we started using Canvas a few years ago, we set up a pretty simple account and sub-account structure for our institution. Under the root account, we created a sub-account for Catalog, one for training courses, and one for migrated courses of the...

The Total shown in gradebook factors hidden assignments into the grade shown.  This means that what students see is artificially lower grade than they really have, because it includes possible points into the total for assignments that are hidden (an...

In addition to method laid out in this article, another option that a Teacher has to Export their course, is to click on the Export Course Content Button from the top of the home page of their course. However, when they select this option, they are ...

If a student is absent for an assignment, I leave the grade blank. However, I'd like for the blank to automatically change to the 50 ( lowest grade possible per the district) in one week.  Is there a way to set that up?

I couldn't reply/post on the following thread [To Do] Integration of Canvas to-do list with Outl... - Instructure Community - 638307 But we have the same issue and I'd love to see a solution.

Hi thereI've successfully configured my instance of Canvas to login using a third party system as the IdP via SAML. When I visit /login/saml, everything works as expected. Now, how do I add a button to the default login page to "Log in with my third ...

We are currently using Qualtrics for course evals and while we are not unhappy with the product, its price point for functionality is steep (private high school). Curious if anyone out there is using course eval software that has a solid integration ...

We designed a self-paced course in Brightspace and have imported it to Canvas, our new LMS staring in September. The course pages are pretty rudimentary (maybe ugly) and the course needs a facelift. There are 12 modules about 50 submodules including ...

Unlike submitted “paper” files for assignments, media recordings with the new media player in Canvas doesn’t have a very noticeable link to download student submissions, whether they be audio or video recordings. I happened to spot a way that teache...

It often happens that when one adds a text comment to a student submission, one is not permitted to edit it or even select it; the comment instead becomes an integral part of the document itself. This is an annoying persistent bug in Canvas that appa...

Hi! I would like to track course created by a number of teachers without having to access each one of them. Is there analytics are for it please? Any tips?

Is anyone utilizing Outcomes for Institutional Assessment with non-instructors (aka: Assessors) evaluating student artifacts?  If so, we would love to talk to you about your process!  Relatively new to Canvas and working on getting this set up at our...

Does anyone have experience with creating courses that students can test out of assignments in a module after completing passing a test?After our students complete a module pre-test, we would like for our students to test out of assignments that they...

Hello!  For those of you who use some kind of templates (or maybe you don't use templates at all) to give your instructors a sort-of “starting point”, do you make a custom home/welcome page and set that as your “Front Page”, or do you set your Module...

I am building medical education courses which have multiple modules in one course which focus on a specific content area (3-5 content areas per course). I need to have each content module require 73% pass for the module, in addition to the total grad...

Hi everyone, Recently, we’ve been exploring early indicators that may reflect student success, and we found that students’ on-time assignment submission rate is a good signal. This aligns with our intuition, as students who submit assignments late or...