Does anyone have any information about the apparent scheduled maintenance that is causing Canvas to be down at the moment? I've been through all communications, roadmap, community pages and social media and I can't find anything. We have 2 Profession...

While researching how to prevent downloading of proprietary videos and content, I came across a 2015 post discussing a workaround for locking files. The post mentions the need to "Go to Files and choose the option to lock the file unless you link to ...

Good morning! Quick question: I have run the User Access Token report for my institution's instance of Canvas, and by far the largest number of associated tokens is "Inst-FS (Production)." "Inst" is likely Instructure, but can anyone shed some light ...

Hello Canvas Community,   I am one of the primary Canvas Admins at my school.   Our post-graduate school is looking at expanding our academic offerings to students who do not speak English as a first language, and who speak a language that our instru...

Thought this would be a good place to share your favorite tool or process to add engagement to your courses. At my institution (K-12 Public School District) we use the interactive components of Studio, H5P, and third-party design software (DesignPLUS...

I was looking for a place to share ideas about onboarding students in an online course at the beginning of a semester. There is a lot of information for students to understand at the beginning of an online course, especially if it is their first time...

Has anyone written or found some code that can be applied so that whenever  a teacher creates a new page or assignment or discussion instead of having that new page, assignment, or discussion be completely blank it can already have our district-appro...

Hi everyone,I hope the new semester is going well for you so far!If you’re looking for practical, evidence-based strategies to maintain student engagement and nurture a growth mindset, I’d like to invite you to our next webinar, “Developing Lifelong ...

We've released a free extension to Canvas that allows you to automatically generate a table of contents for larger pages in Canvas. The Table of Content app is available in the Edu App Center. It is launched from the Apps button in the Rich Text Edit...

I have some pages in a module whose titles I would love to show as italics (for the Latin words) -- see attachment. I thought that there might be some LaTeX coding  ( such as \textit or \emph ) that would allow me to do this but, thus far, I am unabl...

I very much enjoy using Canva for design work. Currently, we are using Canva to design course content and embedding that into the Canvas pages. Does anyone have a better option? We have investigated using the Canva for Campus option and would love to...

Some instructors opt to put all of a module's content onto a single page (links to multiple readings, several embedded videos, etc) along with many paragraphs of text. Too much content on a single page can overwhelm learners and lead to cognitive ove...

Hello everyone,After a very successful virtual edition last year, we would like to invite you to our first in-person conference in Amsterdam, inspirED Europe 2023, taking place on June 8th.This year, we're excited to welcome David Nicol and Suzanne M...

I would like to customize my front page based on student data. In particular, I would like to have a table of modules, with the color of each cell indicating whether a student has completed the module or not. In the course, the student's final grades...

Hi Everyone,I am an instructional designer new to Canvas. I am noticing that there are an incredible number of online course templates available for use via the Canvas Creative Commons. I am looking to create a wholly online asynchronous template for...

Hello there!We're using some SCORM files from a third-party content provider. Our institution would like to learners to pass these courses with an 80% on the exam and limit them to 3 attempts.We've noticed that when exam attempts are limited to 3 in ...

Looking to see what application and /or tools that are available for embedding a video playlist in canvas as a learning material.  I know your able create a playlist in Youtube and embed that playlist into canvas but I do not like how this functions ...

In Canvas, is there a way to link to previous modules that have been accessed or opened previously. For example:We are in Week 5 of the course, working in the Week 5 module. I want students to be able in as fewest clicks as possible jump to module 2 ...

Instructional designer here. A lecturer came to me recently saying that on the Moderate page for a recent quiz they ran, which was made in New Quizzes and did not have a timer, all the students' attempt durations are coming up as '00:00'. They say th...

Hi fellow Canvas users, just looking for some advice.We have a CSS style guide that helps us produce pages that look like my example attached (#1). The Rich content editor would usually display the pages with the styling, but more recently, it has st...

Prior to our district upgrading to the New Assignment interface, I was able to design my assignment descriptions using Canvas' CSS enhanceable_content tabs style. With the new assignment upgrade, this still works, but in a funky way as described belo...