I'm editing a quiz I inherited that is in the Old Quiz format and trying to create a numerical question with a very small answer (1.34e-5) and the editor keeps defaulting my answer to zero. I get the same behavior when trying to edit the error margin...

We encourage our staff to create home pages for their Canvas course rather than go straight to Modules. Most staff aim for the 'button' approach, usually inside some sort of table design. Here is a front page for a Minecraft Club course:   Now I kno...

Is there a way to enter a large number of individual students into the "Assign to" field of a Quiz, or does it have to be done one student at a time? "Everyone" and "Sections" won't work for my large class where I would like to offer a few different ...

I just noticed a weird bug in my Canvas site. I copied my assignments from a previous semester, and it seems as though all of the assignments that were text entry or file upload got changed to text entry only. I only noticed it after the first assign...

I have test banks from the textbook that publisher I'd like to import as question banks. I downloaded the files for Canvas. These appear to be zip files for each chapter, which contains 2 html/xml files, all zipped into one big file.Where can I impor...

I have a teacher who added me as an Observer before she left instead of teacher. How can I change from an Observer to a Teacher without her here? I need to change somethings and I cannot. I can't make a copy or load to Commons.HELPJWatson

Last year, I could print out an entire discussion thread using the browser print function. That no longer works. Is there a work-around? Or has Canvas removed that function?

I need 1 student in my course to resubmit his file. I don't want the other students to be able to submit multiple files because this creates chaos for me as an instructor. How can I do this.    Sometimes I want to be able to reassign the assignment t...

I am a CTE teacher, and I have been added and listed as a "teacher" in other courses for different reasons, but the main premise is to be able to help these teachers post assignments if they are out of the building and/or help set up their Canvas cou...

I have a 'quiz every day' for my students to optionally take for review and keeping content fresh (College Chem courses).  I have used this system for 6 years flawlessly, including last semester (each day quiz is title, e.g. Wk2Tues, etc).  These qui...

Most of the time when I call up a course it brings up the material dated from the previous course (previous year).  I have updated all the due dates and saved everything so it should bring up the newest content but it doesn't always do that.  It will...

Hello, Recently we have has a few instructors and myself login as the Test Student and submit a paper to an assignment configured with the Turnitin Plagiarism Framework option https://app.screencast.com/41Ee4o8zFlkMu Historically this has worked and ...

I am getting an error when trying to publish all modules and items when I am in the Modules in my Canvas class. I get the following error "undefined is not an object (evaluating 'e.items.forEach')" after it gets about 75% of the way through.

I have a student who was assigned in Canvas as a designer so that she had access in order to upload lectures. She wrote an exam (was able to access it as a designer) but now we can not access her exam through "moderate this quiz" or speedgrader in or...

I want to clean up my files. How can I detect unused items?

Hello everyone, I’m looking for some guidance on how to analyze results from tests conducted through Canvas quizzes, specifically for: Question-wise attempt analysis – I want to review how students performed on each individual question to identify w...

So I've noticed a bug (or feature?) in Canvas when you go to assign students to groups "randomly" where if you have two students with the same surname, they will always be put in the same group. I tested this across two Canvas classes in multiple tes...

I have set up a group in which assigned students are to post their class notes under the heading "Files" and a subheading I created called "Class Notes." I put all students into this group. But my students have been unable to upload their notes, beca...

Hello, I am teaching in a cross listed course shell (4 sections, 2 are mine) and I have my gradebook filtered to show sections 3 and 4. This is working correctly. Navigating to grades and selecting speed grader from the hamburger at the top next to t...

I have student features because I wanted to use an alt account as a student account to complete assignments for my course. But, since I was using the alt account's email, it connected my account.      Or maybe I need to delete the course?  

Like many, the 2024 Discussion Redesign has impacted my use of Canvas. These days I continue to look for and create work arounds to lost functionality. Today, my focus is on removing student and my own tests to discussion forums without leaving the '...