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SherriaNettles · 2025-09-03

jakell · 2025-09-03

This issue is with the resolution used by the Canvas Speedgrader when rendering PDF files. Canvas will "refresh" the pdfs at different resolutions depending on the zoom level chosen in the speedgrader pdf viewer, but also depending on the zoom level...

murphy_1527 · 2025-09-03

I have created an assignment that was in a locked module (open August 26th). I created self-sign up group set in the People tab a week before and also created a Discussion board that I then set to group assignment and connected the group set.As of to...

LendraFriesen · 2025-09-03

How do I remove scheduled recurring zoom meetings set up by another instructor who is disignated as the host?

JenniferBurch · 2025-09-03

Seems like I stumbled across a place last year to link all of my assignments to our gradebook system rather than syncing each assignment individually. Did I dream that? Thanks.

jtorresr · 2025-09-03

Hello everyone, I’ve noticed that when I create a course manually in Canvas, students do not receive notifications for announcements. However, when courses are created and loaded through SIS, students do receive those announcement notifications. Is t...

lawrence_rodis · 2025-09-03

I'm using checkpoint discussions not sure if it applies to those who don't use that feature. If you use the speed grader and look at the individual posts view the history feature is missing. However if you switch to viewing the full discussion contex...

JackieWaller · 2025-09-03

In 2 courses my books are grayed out and not able to be clicked on, what do I do, who do I contact? Everyone I have reached out to so far blames it on a different dept.

cheryl_colan · 2025-09-03

I have a new faculty member who created a course and began creating Question Banks in it using the Classic Quizzes engine. He had hoped to build question banks in this "Quiz Banks" course during the term and be able to use Find Questions to populate ...

EmilyBonta · 2025-09-03

Canvas is putting in assignments that are not due yet in as zeroes in PowerSchool. I have set up all the sync categories and checked the due dates. It isn't effecting all of my classes and the classes it is effecting it's not doing it to all students...

kwarner65 · 2025-09-03

I was updating point values in a couple of assignment that some students had already submitted and now I can't get the point values to match, for example if you add up all of the possible points in a quiz it adds up to 8 but the assignment says its w...

thompsli · 2025-09-02

Google has rolled out a new "Homework Help" button in the URL bar of Chrome, and I just tested it out. During a Canvas quiz, if I click that button in the URL bar and select a quiz question in Canvas, it'll spit out the answer right in a sidebar with...

BenPearson · 2025-09-02

Hi , Im currently updating the assessment materials for the whitecard course CPCWHS1001 and I have noticed all of the new courses online have video recorder inserts to allow students to orally record answers as part of their assessments. It looks lik...

JoelCalahan · 2025-09-02

In the new update, I am finding a frustrating glitch when I enter a typed comment to a student submission via SpeedGrader.I type my comment, then click "Submit"--but when I move to the next student submission, SpeedGrader has created a second blank c...

KarenMitchell · 2025-09-02

How can I remove a course from Canvas that I am not teaching?

KurtisBonano · 2025-09-02

I have created the letter grading scheme below. I want to give students a 4.1 on their assessments to show that they exceeded (A+) expectations. In the past, I would give students a 5 instead of a 4.1, but that pulled their overall grade up too much...

csrasmussen · 2025-09-02

There was a recent filter change in Canvas, and I thought I was going crazy. Turns out, my department was struggling too. In Speed Grader, when I moved from P1 to P2, it refused to show me P2 and kept showing me everyone. This led me down a rabbit ho...

MaryAnnMcFarlan · 2025-09-02

I am trying to give students a choice for their daily homework assignments: they can either take a quiz or do a write-up of their readings for the same 10 points. I need to figure out how to set up the gradebook to reflect that they will consistently...

mvieth · 2025-09-02

I have 2 Canvas courses, and then I am also added to 9 other courses as the coordinator. Is there a way to prioritize my 2 courses so that my student work appears on the top of the To Do list? Yes, I can "x" out the other 9 courses worth of work, b...

KalieLewis · 2025-09-02

I teach students of varying math levels and set up the course to have each module as a different subject. Within each module is lessons 1-30 and include assignments for each lesson called Worksheet A, Worksheet C, Worksheet E, Test, etc. It took hour...

BenCoulombe · 2025-09-02

Hello, We have just enabled an automated integration that allows our students, teachers, and courses to be pulled from our SIS to Canvas. Post-integration, we noticed that courses, students, and teachers from sections that will not be using Canvas we...

keverson · 2025-09-02

Hello Canvas Community, We’re running a professional education course with two enrollment options: One with a final assessmentOne without a final assessment All other course content is identical. We decided to try cross-listing the two versions of th...

NicoleMiller412 · 2025-09-02

Are all announcements emailed to students when they are published?

AurosmitSahoo · 2025-09-02

Hi everyone, Where Can I find the client credentials for the canvas LMS Authentication as I am able login as a Teacher, Student or as a Parent but not as an Admin.

MichelleMeadows · 2025-09-02

When courses need major revisions, it would be helpful to export the content into a word document to share with the subject matter expert to reiview and suggest edits. Is there a way to download all course content and export it into word document for...

OrvilleLee · 2025-09-02

How do I set up Microsoft Word on Canvas

mertalpaydin · 2025-09-02

Canvas suddenly stopped sending me e-mail notifications even tough I have my settings set-up. Then I realized a recent Canvas release on 27th of August and investigated further. I realized that this was the time the issue started. I received notifica...

AbigailImarhiag · 2025-09-01

How do I sign up for Check Off Spot? I tried signing up for a spot, but the link will not open. Need help,please. Thank you.

707mrk · 2025-09-01

Dear Canvas, why do you insist on pushing all the default pages, modules, navigation apps, and assignments that I then have to go in and delete every year? Is my school district doing this or are you? I clean all this crap up every year. Next year st...

sanamlimbu · 2025-09-01

Hi everyone, I’m looking for a way to generate a list of users who have been inactive in Canvas since a given date (e.g., no activity in the last year). Is there a Canvas API endpoint that can return users who have not had any activity since a specif...

sgergely · 2025-10-10

Following our recent announcement about the changes to the Canvas Page Views feature, we are excited to share a major update specifically for our developer community and partners: The new PageView History API is now available in Beta! This new asynch...

annalindsay · 2025-10-08

Discover the key takeaways from Berkeley College's Customer Discovery Session, where administrators, educators, and students shared their insights on the teaching and learning experience. Learn how their focus on simplicity and consistency will shape...

RyanNorton · 2025-10-07

Mark your calendars! Sharing early communication about a few changes we’ve made to our Canvas deploy and release schedule.

carlycurran · 2025-10-07

Empower Your Staff with Targeted Analytics

KevinMeredith · 2025-09-26

Updates and Resources on Parchment Digital Badges

SamGarza1 · 2025-09-16

We’re continuing our work to improve the instructor assignment experience in Canvas, and we’d love your input.

sgergely · 2025-09-12

We're rolling out some important updates to how Page Views are handled in Canvas, affecting both the user interface and our public APIs. These changes are designed to improve performance, accessibility, and data management, while also changing how pa...

rthornton · 2025-09-09

The Block Content Editor is coming — shaped by the voices of educators every step of the way. This new editing experience, powered by AI, makes creating engaging, accessible course content simpler and more attainable than ever before.

ruthfoulkrod · 2025-09-09

We’re developing Co-Labs, our new interactive product roadmap experience – and we’re looking for engaged customers to join the pilot. If you’re excited to share meaningful feedback and influence what comes next, this is your chance to get early acces...

F_King · 2025-09-09

At Flinders University, our Instructure Product leadership team had the privilege of coming together with educators, administrators, and students from across APAC. The conversations were filled with creativity, commitment, and collaboration. They rem...

rthornton · 2025-08-27

Our commitment to preserving the learning experience remains unwavering. When we launched our latest NPS survey, our north star was clear: do not disrupt learning. We set broad-stroke parameters with care but received feedback that these parameters f...

AkosFarago · 2025-08-08

Learn about the new integration between Canvas Studio and YouTube’s Player for Education!

NikkiWhang · 2025-08-05

Last week approximately 2,000 Canvas LMS users traveled to beautiful Spokane, WA for our annual InstructureCon event. During the week, we were granted an opportunity to sit down with several of our K12 and Higher Education users for a Customer Discov...

eschiebel · 2025-07-21

Canvas users may now choose to use a dyslexia friendly font.

KataKeri · 2025-07-21

A cleaner, more accessible, and easier-to-use Files page launched in Canvas on July 19! With improved navigation, bulk file actions, better accessibility, and a modern design, managing course and user files just got simpler. Prefer the classic view? ...

Rachel-Bowman · 2025-07-10

In today’s crowded edtech landscape, integration quality matters. Educators and administrators are under pressure to deliver seamless digital learning experiences without compromising on usability, data privacy, or security. That’s why we’re proud to...

Amy_Haskell · 2025-07-08

Last week, we hosted a K-12 Assessment Product Discovery Session (CDS) in San Antonio, bringing together curriculum and assessment leaders from districts across the country. This in-person event provided a valuable opportunity for participants to eng...

MichaelLysaght · 2025-07-08

Today, I’ll update you on some major progress on one of these projects: the Global Identity Service. And offer details of what you can expect over the next 12-28 months.

JoaoSilveira · 2025-07-08

During a recent Customer Discovery Session in Budapest, educators from Europe and Africa shared powerful insights on collaboration, mobile teaching, accessibility, and more. Their voices are already influencing how we evolve Canvas to better sup...

JoaoSilveira · 2025-07-03

A long request is now available: Canvas New Quizzes support to localized numeric formatting, allowing institutions to configure decimal and thousand separators based on regional conventions.

sgergely · 2025-07-02

We’re excited to release the data access platform (DAP) command line interface (CLI) referred to as DAP CLI 2.0. For developers and data engineers that access data from Canvas Data, this is a major version update that introduces new functionality, i...

SamGarza1 · 2025-06-23

Now that Differentiation Tags is available in Feature Preview in production as of June 21, 2025 , you may be asking yourself: What’s the difference between Sections, Groups, and Differentiation Tags? How do I know when to use each one?

AlexisNast · 2025-06-23

Discover how the new Canvas Apps experience streamlines app discovery, management, and monitoring, saving administrators valuable time. This enhanced experience provides critical data for informed investment in tools educators and learners truly use,...

SamGarza1 · 2025-06-18

Discussion Checkpoints are now available in Group Discussions! As we conclude the Discussion Redesign initiative, we invite you to share your feedback in a brief survey.

SamGarza1 · 2025-06-11

We’re exploring ways to improve the Learning Mastery Gradebook (LMGB) in Canvas—and we’d love your input.

SamGarza1 · 2025-06-09

We’re exploring ways to improve the Peer Review experience in Canvas and we need your input!

sgergely · 2025-06-03

We're excited to announce the upcoming release of a new column, non_collaborative, in the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) Query API's groups and group_categories tables at 2025-06-12. This column helps clearly distinguish between standard collaborative groups an...

ZoeLubitz1 · 2025-06-02

The Course Pacing feature is now only in Course Settings, not behind a feature flag. It is still disabled by default.

YasiAfsharnive · 2025-05-21

Learn more about performance and usability updates coming to SpeedGrader, June 21, 2025!

SamGarza1 · 2025-05-21

Differentiation Tags are a powerful new feature coming soon to Canvas! And we’re excited to announce that the Differentiation Tags feature is now available in Feature Preview in beta environments.

Canvas Deploy Notes (2025-10-22)