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Hello,  I am currently having an issue with the Canvas Student mobile app on IOS. Last night, the app was working as normal until this morning. When I try to open the app, it instantly kicks me out and closes the app. I have been trying to open it su...

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I've been a Canvas-using educator for the better part of the last ten years.  I have sung its praises and made disciples of other educators...However, in the recent past, the Canvas Mobile App's Speed Grader has stopped allowing users to filter stude...

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 Hello I want to change the settings and update the app language to English on canvas on my iPad (it’s in Spanish right now). The desktop version of canvas says my preferred language is English, which is my desired preference for the app as well, but...

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Is there a way to move to the next student while grading in the Canvas Teacher app? I swear I could last fall, but this fall I cannot seem to see how. When I select an assignment to grade and select needs grading, I get a list of students to grade. A...

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Hi! Our school is new to using Canvas--so far we're loving it--and I just got the mobile app for iOS but am noticing an issue with my calendars. The mobile app shows all of my calendars that are course-connected. However, on mobile, one of my calenda...

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In the Canvas Teacher app, suddenly the 'grading panel' is open by default every time I open a student paper.  This is so frustrating/time-consuming, as I now have to close the panel, then select the pen icon so I can write on the paper.  I would lov...

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On Mac, Canvas widgets include a full range of options.However, on iOS, To-Do List (is Limited, only shows a few announcements) + grades and other options do not exist when it comes to widgets.Is this something that is being worked on or can be added...

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Hi, my Canvas To-Do list is not showing any assignments, but when I go into each course’s Assignments page, I can see they have due dates. I have refreshed the app, logged out and back in, and my courses are starred. Can you notify me when this issue...

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Recently, my canvas app updated and changed the To-Do list interface. Previously, the mobile canvas had a list of assignments due within the next week. I loved this feature and used it to organize my schoolwork for the upcoming week. Now, the mobile ...

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Hello to all and thanks for any help anyone can provide.  As recently as the end of the 24/25 school year in June, when my students turned in an assignment I would use my Canvas iPhone app to look at student grades and record them into my gradebook o...

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Hello, I am a student and my to do list suddenly says "Nothing for now" in card view, even though the assignments are viewable in the course page and on list view. I have not changed any settings, and this problem happens on multiple PC browsers and ...

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I'm a teacher that makes extensive use of Outcomes and alignments. The assignment view of my gradebook is pretty meaningless to students, and all of the information about growth and mastery of different learning objectives in the class is displayed i...

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Hey Canvas Instructure team, Recently I got a forced update on my Canvas IOS app, now my To-Do list is completely butchered. No longer do I have the red bubble on my app that lets me know how many things I have to do-which really was one of my saving...

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One of my courses is gray on the home page and it has a lock where the grades normally are.It seems I can, however, access the content.My professor and the school's Canvas help desk are being unhelpful, telling me they have no idea what it could be. ...

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Hello Instructure team. I just noticed that this new canvas update has a major flaw with the to-do list system. I can’t swipe done on any of them and the little red bubble doesn’t show on the app to tell me what I have completed. I literally have to ...

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Over the past two days or so, I have noticed a change to the Canvas Student app that has caused trouble to my classmates as well as to myself regarding the “to-do” feature. Now when I click on “to-do”, I see completed assignments and as I try to swip...

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Once the app is downloaded, currently we are unable to log into the app. Its asks for the school name and we are not affiliated with a school. I read that the staff/students should have access to the app in the free version but as of now we can only ...

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How do we go about changing the options so that everyone can adjust Canvas to their liking when it comes to the To Dos?I was highly organized with the previous way the To Dos worked: Sunday-Sunday, a set number of To Dos and once completed, if the in...

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Anyone else out there start having quite a few reports of students being logged out of the Canvas app (As in on next open of Canvas app on iPad it will ask for School ...) after app updates on iOS 18.5.x+ iPads to 8.01/8.1? This is starting to become...

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With all due respect to the designers of canvas, this new update is completely unnecessary, and makes it 10x harder to get through the school year. The previous design was perfect: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!! The fact that you can’t mark assign...

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My IOS canvas app is v.8.1.0 right now and I opened the app to check my to do list and its not working the way it always has. I do not have the ability to remove things from my to do list and things that I have submitted already are not being removed...

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Bring back the filter for sections.  Bring back the ability to see if an assignment is late--and now, I cannot write on my iPad to make notes on the student's assignments.  I'm not sure what you did in the upgrade, but it needs to be immediately reve...

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I am using canvas student for iOS and I can’t see anything in the to do list. I have never had this problem before, but I have tried everything to fix it. I have cleared my cache several times and even reinstalled the app; nothing works. I tried repo...

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Hello I am able to view assignment grades on web however assignment grades are not available on my mobile device.  I followed the mobile iOS guide but I do not have the same options as shown.  On my mobile device, there is a banner that says 'total g...

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Parents are reporting that they see a Lock symbol on the top left of course cards on the iOS app. Last year they were able to see the student's total grade, but this year it is a lock. I cannot figure out where to change this. Neither can ChatGPT.   ...

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I just logged on and Canvan is refreshed with this year's class. is there a way to see last school year's grade that with details of each period?ThanksCathleen

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Hello Everyone, I'm Namrata Hinduja from Geneva, Swiss. Since updating to UI 7.0, I haven’t been able to access my to-do list—it just shows an "oops" error. I’ve already tried everything I could think of: logging out, starring courses, restarting my ...

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I would like to be able to see my canvas grades whenever I click on a graded notification in the notification tab. Currently it just shows the submission and rubric but I would like to see what grade I earned on it without having to navigate all the ...

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I have 3 children in the same school system. When using the mobile app it list all 3 children's classes. They are not organized and they are all jumbled together. They run by class period, then A or B day, and then alphabetical. I have a 12th grader,...

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I have the Teacher Canvas app on my iPad.    Last year, I was able to annotate student work with my Apple Pencil on uploaded student work.    This year, however, when I click on the Assignment, I am unable to annotate the assignment. I can still assi...

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