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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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The To-do List Widget on Canvas (iOS) app for iPad and iPhone doesn’t show the material. Canvas reverted back to the older version of the To-do list but it doesn’t work. When you click on the widget it opens to the To-do list but does not show the ma...

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I am having issues with the Canvas teacher app with the iPad. I always cross list my courses because I teach the same class a few time a day. Last year, I was able to filter through assignments by class periods which made grading and checking that st...

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 It seems that teachers can no longer annotate onto student assignments when they have been submitted as a PDF. This was available last year and made it possible to use a stylus to grade and leave feedback directly onto the PDF that the student submi...

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When you add an assignee to an assignment in Canvas teacher app, tags are not an option.

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When providing students with an Assignment with a Text Entry Response in the Canvas iOS App, the response text box covers the assignment description.  This is not only an inconvenience, it's an access issue for many students needing to visualize the ...

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My school is in the Central US time zone and I live in the Eastern US time zone. On my PC, Canvas is set to Central time and all of the assignments are due at 11:59pm on say for example August 24. On the app, the to-do list shows 12:59am August 25. I...

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The updated version of the Canvas teacher app for i-pad has removed the functionality of selecting grades to view by section.  This is (was) one of the most important features of the mobile app and allowed not only very efficient grading of both home...

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Looking to find some guidance and offer suggestions on the prompt most Parents are getting when they set up their Observer accounts in Canvas.  When a parent sets up an Observer account through the browser on their phone, they are then prompted to do...

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Can I still separate my courses by section when filtering views?

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is there a way to put canvas or the student portal on my my cellular device android in a app version rather then web616

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Good morning community! I have a teacher (just one so far, early days) who is trying to grade student submissions using Canvas Teacher on her iPad in the app (not browser). She has three sections of Chemistry cross listed into one larger class. When ...

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TENGO UN IPAD ACTUALIZADO Y NO ME DEJA VER EL MODULO 2 Y LOS SIGUIENTES.SOLO ME DEJA VER EL MODULO 1. ES UN ERROR DE LA APP DE IOS Y DE ANDROID. TENGO TODO ACTUALIZADO. GRACIAS!PD: USO LA APP DE CANVAS CON LA UNIVERSIDAD SIGLO XXI.

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Where do I find the bypass code to login to my mobile canvas app? 

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I currently have a Chromebook. I have logged into canvas just fine on it and completed assignments. However the lock down browser will not work. Every time I go to install it. It says its not compatible with this device. I found the lock down browser...

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I recently updated my UI to 7.0, and since then, I can't access my to-do list at all. it just gives me an oops. I've tried signing out, starring my courses, restarting the device, clearing the cache, deleting the app, and removing the widget, with no...

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