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DrBonnie · 2025-09-14

I have assignments that require peer reviews. I created the assignment; and followed the instructions. The students are to complete the assignment (Lesson Plan with Rubric) first, After that, I'd like the Peer Review to be automatically generated. ...

DavidRodda · 2025-09-14

Hi, so a fellow lecturer and I were marking assignments, students submitted pdfs with their answers to two questions, my colleague marked and annotated question 1 in speed grader and I marked and annotated question 2, I was the final moderator and in...

LB_Teach · 2025-09-13

In Canvas, I recently copied over a course from another course. I hit the edit button on a page in the newly created course to edit content (see screenshot #1 in attachment) and when I click into the edit area the content disappears except for the pa...

DerekGreenfield · 2025-09-13

I am new to teaching with Canvas and have been using Discussions. The issue is... the students weren't receiving info about tasks in their ToDo section, so I went ahead and added the next Discussion through Assignments. Now, I have students partici...

AndreaImhoff · 2025-09-13

Why is the Syllabus button inactive on the Canvas Course homepage? I have used Canvas for many years at my institution. Courses are created every semester. The Syllabus button has always been a boilerplate button on the home page, along with offi...

TiffanyDoody · 2025-09-13

I am registered for a class that was published 9-12-25. It isn't showing up on my dashboard, and when I go to all courses, it shows that it's published, but the course name is not showing as a hyperlink for me to open it. I did get an email from my i...

MarilynNibling · 2025-09-13

I have created 5 discussion posts for students in Canvas LMS. How do I reconcile the gradebook for the 3 that are not chosen so that the ones not chosen will not count against the student's final grade points?

FrankKelley · 2025-09-13

how do i make a quiz available for students to take and how do they submit?

CBGlendening · 2025-09-13

Greetings,I recently created rubrics in the Canvas LMS and I would like to take screenshots of them to include in my professional web portfolio. However, when I attempt to screenshot a rubric the screen blacks out. Now I'm not sure how to share these...

karen_harris1 · 2025-09-12

I would like to deliver in person quizzes on paper, but enter scores for each question in Canvas Quizzes in order to generate Quiz Analytics and Outcomes Data that can be disaggregated by question. All guidance says to create a Canvas Assignment "on...

ZACHARYYINDRA · 2025-09-12

My classroom policy is 10% off per day an assignment is late. Is there a way to use the attendance feature included with Canvas so that a student marked as absent does not have that day counted against them on auto-grading assignments? For instance,...

BobbieJeanKoen · 2025-09-12

We are having an issue with professors who need to use more than one rubric to rate an assignment. Our goal is to have faculty use a university-wide rubric to rate an assignment using the Learning Mastery gradebook (Outcomes). However, some professor...

JoshStock · 2025-09-12

Is there a way to have the rubric score automatically added to the grade score or do I have to type it in each time?

DouglasCook · 2025-09-12

My students would like to be able to review their responses to quiz prompts to identify correct answers. They would also like to retake the quizzes for mastery.

alenkahr · 2025-09-12

Student groups and assignment settings are correct the Canvas. However, when students submit their assignment, the speedgrader does not have them organized in student groups. It treats student submissions as individual submissions, not as group.

jchaomignano · 2025-09-11

I'm an administrator and an ELA teacher in my school shared with me that after we imported course content from her previous course, for each Assignment that used Google Assignments LTI as the external tool, she had to do this: Edit the Assignment to ...

RaynettaLemieux · 2025-09-11

How do I edit the number of attempts in an assigned assessment after the assignment has been published?

amoldenhauer · 2025-09-11

I am a middle school teacher, mt students recently received Chromebooks that flip into tablet mode. I am having the upload photos of their work, however they are unable to turn on the rear camera and take a photo in tablet mode. This is creating a fr...

MorgenWM · 2025-09-11

Apologies if this question has been posted or answered in the guides and I didn't find it; the keywords are a bit tricky as you might imagine. I'm new to Canvas and trying to work out policies and resources for our K-12 district ahead of our August 2...

rnielsen2 · 2025-09-10

Why are some green published indicators a lighter shade of green?

t_dygert · 2025-09-10

In a classic quiz, I want the ability to have a specific number of each question type included (random questions pulled from several banks so that all question types appear in the quiz). The main reason is that I want to ensure essay questions are al...

rachelsupp · 2025-09-10

I am having a problem in Canvas where I will add an image to a page and it will look fine at first. But then when I go to "Image Options" and edit the alt text, as soon as I click out of there, the image will suddenly get huge. It will still show the...

JohnBuckingham1 · 2025-09-10

Our institution (Pepperdine) recently transitioned from the Sakai LMS to Canvas. In Sakai, we had the ability to configure Turnitin default settings when setting up an assignment. But in Canvas, it appears we don't have that ability. In particular,...

thompsli · 2025-09-10

My school district is requiring us to issue letter grades based on course outcomes. I have my summatives linked to the course outcomes in Canvas, but the letter grades seem to still be based on their formative work that's being recorded in the tradit...

KatGorringe · 2025-09-10

Good morning all, I am working with one of our teachers in her Spanish classes and we are trying to get it set so students are able to record audio as a submission type on a canvas quiz. The teacher is creating her quiz and creating each question...

Jan-ErikJonsson · 2025-09-10

In Speedgrader, what is the point with the button "Reassign Assignment"?A student can resubmit an assignment anyway. It does not matter if I "Reassign Assignment" after I have done the grading and submitted.This means a student can submit again even ...

MatthewObbink · 2025-09-10

After I post my lectures to my modules tab, in power point format, when I review them the original formating of the power point that I have designed is changed. The fonts are different and some of the image layout has also shifted. This is only in th...

jc71 · 2025-09-09

I used New Quizzes for an introductory survey (all short answers) for students. I set it up where I wanted students to earn the point only after I have reviewed their answers (this makes it easy to see whose responses I've already read). I set it up ...

awasser · 2025-09-09

The course announcements are located at the top of my homepage. I'm attaching a screenshot. How can I rearrange the page and move them to the bottom? Thank you.

VarreCummins · 2025-09-09

I have numerous courses in the unpublished list of my dashboard. How do I delete a course from the list?

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