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As the subject line says. When students click the comments button from the Gradebook [numbered 1 in the first screenshot], the Feedback panel opens [2] but so does an additional panel displaying all white along with only the last couple of lines of t...

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Hi Community, I am struggling a bit as one of our tutors has marked some assignments for some students, but when the student accesses the assignment through the marks page, they can't see their annotated assignment anywhere.They can see their feedbac...

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We had used McGraw Hill eBook to assign homework for students - the book changed- we had exported these assignments in XLM format (which isn't compatible with canvas) can we convert XML into QTI to be compatible with canvas? or any other ideas?Thank ...

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Problem: I have an Account Admin as part of one of my Sub-Accounts with full permissions, but they cannot manage student logins.   Context: We import our rosters from FACTS SIS into one main Account, but the students and teachers are split between tw...

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My teacher has our classes assignments due at 11.59 on Sundays. However, for whatever reason mine is set for 10.59pm. And even checking my settings with my timezones it says that's all correct. The school is switching over to Cavnas soon, and I worry...

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Hello - We are processing whether or not to enable the Content Security Policy in our Canvas instance. Is there any process that can tell us whether or not there are current Javascript tools running in our canvas instance?  Thanks Neil  

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Can we add check marks to heading levels 2 in Canvas and not just by having these listed for Heading Levels 1. 

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We have create 2 question banks in New Quizzes and now cannot find them in the question banks.

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I read that CANVAS decided not to allow this to be an option. It would be great if this feature was live. I needed to make changes to a quiz, but I have no way make changes for the students who took the quiz early. 

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Several accrediting bodies require lesson plans at audits, but the content often has changed. Is there a way to have a Lesson Plan built off current canvas shells, as an exported file that captures various aspects of the course?

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Random question, what if an instructor deletes or stops using their account? What would happen to their courses and accounts? Is it like the Inactive Google Account manager?  

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One of our staff members discovered that some of her dual enrollment students are enrolled in test courses we are piloting, and she needs to report this information to high school counselors. While the Grade Export report in Canvas settings could hel...

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How do I configure Multi Factor Authentication to be required to all user accounts in our Canvas Workspace?

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When will Canvas has feedback settings that are clear, such as the settings for feedback on Moodle (type of feedback to provide after  the first attempt (for example if more than 1 attempt), and the feedback once the quiz is closed.).

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Hi All,  Is anyone else having trouble accessing the drop-down menus on the Canvas Live API site?    Whenever I try to expand one of the rows, I just get no response from the page. 

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I do not see how to favorite or unfavorite courses but the Canvas community information regarding filtering emails refers to the Favorites as "courses you have favorited" so I assume there is a way to do that. Several of my old courses are in my favo...

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Dear Canvas Development Team,I am writing to highlight a pressing issue with Canvas SpeedGrader regarding the PDF zoom functionality. While image files now adapt to fit the viewing window, PDFs unfortunately do not benefit from the same feature.Many ...

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Hello! my kid graduated from elementary to middle and he wants to see if he can change his homepage from homeroom to dashboard because he wants to use the aesthetic google extensions for canvas. Thanks!

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For some reason, the Attendance isn't appearing in the navigation menu. There's how do I make it appear in the course so I can give the necessary points for attendance and participation?

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Is anyone else receiving reports from students when attempting to view the Speedgrader annotations on a Google Assignment that they are not viewable to the student? Meaning, the instructor deploys a Google Assignment, uses Speedgrader to annotate, an...

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Does the immersive reader not work on quizzes?  I have students with IEP's that require audio for assessment.  When the student goes into an assessment the immersive reader tool goes away as far as I can tell.  This is the place I need it the most!  ...

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Has anyone experienced unauthorized access to their Canvas account through external email phishing or hacking attempts? What steps were taken to resolve the issue, and what recommendations do you have for preventing future security breaches?

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Everytime I take a test canvas test page says my answers are wrong but their answer is wrong. Everyone in our class is experiencing this problem we can't get a solution on how to solve this problem. We tried already to complain to our teacher but she...

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I am currently a TA and grad student so I have many grading tasks in my to-do list. I like to be able to see what grading tasks I have but my to-do list is often clogged by another non-necessary course that my university has assigned to me. It is a s...

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I am organizing a small conference on the Morris campus. Participants will be faculty and students from about 15 to 17 other small colleges across the Midwest. My plan so far is to create a Google sites page for the outside visibility, and link a can...

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I completed module 1 assignment for the Understand Abuse and Neglect course. Now, I want to submit my Module 1 assignment. The video said go to course navigation link using Canvass? I'm logged onto Canvas, but I don't see course navigation link, I do...

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I am an instructor teaching an on-demand, self-paced course using the Free Canvas platform. Is there a way to automate certificates of completion when participants finish all portions of the course or will I need to issue the certificates manually?Am...

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What options does Canvas have for blocking messages?   We are interested in being able to differentiate blocking teacher versus blocking student messages.   We are also interested in being able to have the options to block all student m...

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I need to be able to join a group without having to see other users or people's names, is that possible?In my current LMS canvas for a student to join a group they see ALL the users names in the course, is there a way to let him join a group but with...

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I am curious if an AI adaptable Library from Canvas will be coming soon? A recent GPT Prompt: Please provide me with a prompt for Chat GPT that would provide a Canvas Course for a 10th grade Law Education class that can be manipulated to match the go...

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Canvas LMS Product Blog

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Tl;dr: Impact Admins now have granular adoption data on NQ and the ability to strategically place messaging inside of New Quizzes to support migration and deepen adoption!

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New Quizzes

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We would like to gather your feedback on the Discussion Summary feature, which has been available as a feature preview since July 2024. This initial period has allowed some of you to experience and utilize the feature, and we've received valuable inp...

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We’re excited to announce updates to a new table in the Canvas namespace that will be available in your CD2/DAP Query API dataset starting February 10th. These changes enrich the dataset with additional context and expand the range of supported use c...

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Release Communications

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This morning, we gathered our product team to discuss your feedback on the recent Speedgrader changes that apply to all Discussions in the Discussion Checkpoints feature. We heard you loud and clear – the update disrupted your grading workflow, espec...

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We’re working hard to release the modernized SpeedGrader as soon as possible, with a target of Q1 2025. While we are striving to meet this timeline, we are committed to delivering the release no later than early Q2 2025.

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We're diving deep into the world of Peer Review within Canvas and we need your help!

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We’re releasing DAP CLI version 1.3.1 today to address an issue that affected PostgreSQL users following our recent DAP Query API update. Yesterday, we introduced multiple new enum values across several tables in the DAP Query API, which unfortunatel...

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With the end of the year rapidly approaching, we want to share an update on the highly anticipated AI-powered Discussions and Inbox Translations. As part of our commitment to delivering high-quality, reliable, and scalable features, we will continue ...

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We’re excited to announce new features in the Canvas LMS January Release. With the updates to the 2024 release schedule, we remain focused on ensuring that you are fully informed and equipped with the tools you need to succeed and support learners at...

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Release Communications

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New Quizzes can now be shared to Commons. Save time, collaborate effortlessly, and discover or share assessments internally and externally.

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New Quizzes

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We’re excited to announce updates to multiple tables and columns in the Canvas namespace with new enumerated values (enums) that will be available in your CD2/DAP Query API dataset starting January 9th. These changes enrich the dataset with additiona...

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Intelligent Insights

Release Communications

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As we near the end of 2024 and look back upon the year… I’d like to share a deeper dive about our discovery process, how the R&D team creates new feature solutions.

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Mastery Connect

Roadmap Processes

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Block Editor will be available in Open Beta on December 16, 2024.

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Simplifying Learning: Improved Support for New Quizzes TLDR: Quizzes are key to learning, and we’ve made them easier to access and navigate in the Canvas Mobile apps. With improved support for New Quizzes, both learners and instructors can now enjoy ...

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Hello, New Quizzes users!  We're excited to share some recent improvements, inspired directly by you - our Canvas users! Many of these new features are ready to enjoy now, while some are planned for early 2025. Today's highlights focus on "delighter...

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New Quizzes

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We are excited to announce the release of DAP CLI & Lib 1.3.0, bringing new features, enhanced functionality, and critical updates based on your feedback. This update reinforces our commitment to improving developer tools and addressing the needs of ...

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Intelligent Insights

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Three new columns to be added to the assignments table: parent_assignment_id, type, has_sub_assignments. These changes will go live on December 9th, 2024. 

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We’re excited to introduce a new feature we're working on called Differentiation Tags, and we’d love your input to make it the best it can be!

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What's next for Ideas and Themes

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Mastery Item Bank

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We're excited to announce the Canvas Apps page will be going live to open beta on December 16th! This new feature is designed to streamline app integration and management for Canvas root admins. While still in development, this initial release, which...

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LTI Integrations

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The release date for the Discussion Checkpoints feature has been adjusted. Originally planned for November 16, the new release date for production is January 18, 2025. In the meantime, Discussion Checkpoints will still be accessible in the beta envir...

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We’re making an important change to the rollout of Discussion Checkpoints based on your feedback. Instead of enabling Checkpoints as a default feature that is on for all users on November 16th, we will now release it as a Feature Option.

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Get ready to shape the future of Instructure’s data capabilities! We’re running an Instructure Data Questionnaire to gather your valuable insights for our 2025 roadmap, focusing on cloud adoption and analytics trends. Your feedback will guide our fea...

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Intelligent Insights

New Quizzes

Roadmap Processes

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I’m excited to extend the End of Quarter Update practice - which might be familiar from New Quizzes Updates - to Discussions, ensuring you’re informed about recent improvements in the last 3 months and our upcoming objectives for the upcoming quarter...

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We’re excited to share an update on the progress of Discussion Checkpoints! Before moving the feature into our beta environment, we had the privilege of working with four institutions that tested the functionality.

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We’re excited to share that SpeedGrader is getting a significant upgrade! These changes are designed to make your grading process even smoother, faster, and more reliable.

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With our October release, we're introducing some really exciting updates in Intelligent Insights. 

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Intelligent Insights

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Tl;dr: Get excited! LTI Usage has two powerful new capabilities being released tomorrow! Read on for more details.

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The feedback window is now closed. Further updates will be provided soon!

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Your Admin Analytics data is fresher! Admin Analytics is now on DAP. New Course Analytics will be on DAP by the end of November.  

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Canvas LMS Release Notes

Learn about the latest releases, updates, and bug fixes for Canvas LMS

Upcoming Canvas Changes 2025-05-17 Breaking Change: Gradebook Icon Update for LTI Assignment and Grade Service For more information, please see Upcoming Canvas Changes. In this Canvas release (15 March), the Copy Course and Import Content pages ...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

In this Canvas release (15 February),the Copy Course page uses InstUI and includes updates like defaulting to term dates, requiring admins to adjust term dates, and displaying both local and course time zones if they differ. On the Account Level Gr...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Upcoming Canvas Changes 2024-12-08 Updating the mediaType for launches from New Quizzes items 2025-02-16 Assignment Custom Parameter Data with Leading Zeros Stripped During Course Copy For more information, please see Upcoming Canvas Changes. In...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Upcoming Canvas Changes 2024-12-08 Updating the mediaType for launches from New Quizzes items For more information, please see Upcoming Canvas Changes. In this Canvas release (16 November), Instructors can set multiple due dates or checkpoints f...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Upcoming Canvas Changes 2024-11-16 Removal of null values in custom parameter valuesExpands all group related LTI variable expansions. For more information, please see Upcoming Canvas Changes. In this Canvas release (19 October), on the Account ...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Upcoming Canvas Changes 2024-10-19 Removal of Legacy Account Analytics For more information, please see Upcoming Canvas Changes. In this Canvas release (21 September), when adding an API Key, New Quizzes endpoints are available in token scopes f...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

In this Canvas release (17 August), instructors can customize New Quiz result feedback for all students. All Resources | Features in this release may be included in product blogs and other content areas. For all related links, view the 2024-08-17 Co...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

In this Canvas release (20 July), instructors can assign ungraded discussions to students and sections. The Account Navigation now includes a link to the Analytics Hub. In Account Settings, admins can enable Inbox Signature blogs and Auto responses. ...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Upcoming Canvas Changes 2024-07-20 Enforcement of Discussion and Announcement Redesign. Deprecation of Legacy Account Analytics.Enforcement of New Analytics For more information, please see Upcoming Canvas Changes. In this Canvas release (15 Jun...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases