Hi Admins- In your experience, what are the differences between the user's 'Default' email address and other user-added email addresses in Canvas, and have you seen these differences change over time? More background: We would like to clarify for our...

I noticed some odd behaviour today in our beta instance in regards to a course with visibility is set to institution. Multiple accounts who can view the course in PROD could not in BETA and were given the error "Students are not allowed to access tes...

We need a way to have student attendance at Zoom meetings count toward their Last Participation date in the Students report on New Analytics. We need this so we can report Last Date of Attendance accurately to the US Department of Education for finan...

We are a consortium of eight colleges.  Most of the colleges use ADFS SAML for SSO.  We want to add our Google domain to the options for SSO authentication.  I read through the instructions and it stated that Google SAML SSO does not have to be in po...

Currently, we generate flat files as CSV files for users, courses and enrollments. The files get pushed every 2 hours between 6 AM and 6 PM, then get processed by Canvas. Canvas does the diffing in the files and creates users, courses and enrollments...

Hi Awesome Community! Instructure is looking to hire a Canvas Expert to join the Solutions Engineering team -- supporting technical discussions with institutions across Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, and other areas of Europe.  We're looking for a b...

We are using Outcomes for course and program level alignment and reporting.  It is not that fabulous, but with enough work done in Excel after downloading data, it works.  What is better?  

Canva  is a free editor that lets you create arts hassle by phone. This application can be used to produce greeting cards, invitations, covers for social networks, and even resumes and collage audio from your phone. The great advantage of canva mod a...

Administrators at our high school want to be able to turn off messaging for just certain students.  I can do this by manually deleting their current "Student" enrollments and adding them back to their classes as our custom course user role "Restricte...

The guide for Microsoft Teams could do with some clarification as the Teams icon doesn't appear in the RCE by default. This might be because the New RCE is being used over the Old RCE. However, for the New RCE, you are required to follow the guidance...

I have instructors using New Quizzes and several of them are trying to design a quiz where students have the option to answer four or five out of ten available questions. How do they adjust the point values either in the Build section or during the e...

We are using the Canvas-delivered APIs to integrate course and enrollment information from our SIS to Canvas. Note that I'm referring to the APIs that are direct, one-off calls to update data in Canvas, and not the API call you can use to transfer cs...

Hello Canvas Admins!  I'd love for there to be a notification sent whenever a profile photo is updated and pending approval.  Otherwise it may sit there for while, unknown.  Does this option already exist and I've just missed it? Thanks in advance!

The Canvas Surveys were a great option to administer one-minute papers in large classes.  With the transition to New Quizzes,  Surveys will no longer be available. I do not think ungraded multiple choices are a real substitute, as they do not allow a...

Hi   I was wondering to know if there's any feature on Canvas that can be enabled to restrict students to post messages containing certain words?   This would be very useful feature to control the communication standards in Canvas Discussion forums a...

We offer one course to multiple schools as sub-accounts. Each sub-account is an individual school using our licensure course. Can each of our schools export their student's data to their own SIS? The SIS program may differ from one school account to ...

Is it possible to create a new user AND enroll the new user in a course via a single API call? Seeing no way to do so, we're planning to run two calls: Create a new user with /api/v1/accounts/1/users, and receive the new user ID, thenEnroll that new ...

Background: We are a new organization that will provide online courses to schools. Teachers want to use Zoom for video conferencing. I am an engineer who is trying to enable Zoom LTI pro integration with Canvas. Issue: I did enable Zoom LTI Pro and g...