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How do you add BioSig to a module for a quiz?

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I have students who are interns in the same grade book as students who are not. How can I separate them so that I do not have to differentiate each time each time I grade paper? Could I put them in groups so and assignment work accordingly?

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In two of my classes, I have two students with identical names.  I cannot find anything in Canvas that will allow me to display the students' email addresses or their avatar in the gradebook.  It is therefore impossible to tell them apart and I have ...

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I have a blueprint course but it is full of pages that I no longer want. It seems the only way is to delete these one by one, but that would far too long. If I just make a new blueprint course and change the associations of my child courses, will it ...

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Looking for a way to open all groups with one click. It is very tedious to individually open a large number of groups to see the membership.

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If you created an assignment in Modules instead of in Assignments, how can you get it added to the Assignment list so it appears in the grade book?  There seems to be no copy function, and the move command only seems to move things within the modules...

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I teach three courses.  In the grades, one class has a test student at the bottom.  The other two courses do not.  How can I add a test student to them?

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When I return a graded assignment from Google Course Kit to the Canvas assignment, it looks as though Canvas is marking all the assignments I grade “Late” – which is really screwing with late percentages. In other words, either Google is passing the ...

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A question:  My students just finished a group project.  In the settings, I selected the choice that all students in the group get the same grade.  Now – after I have posted grades for most of the other teams, all of which populated automatically, of...

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copy MS word exam files into Canvas?#ms word

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How do I send a mass email to all of the students in one section?

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I am a TA for a course that I took a year back and I am trying to copy over the modules and content from the old course page to the new one. Unfortunately when I go to import course content on Canvas the only course options are the ones I am a TA for...

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How would I find a student's details (grades, past assignments, etc.) if he/she has been out of the class for a long time and is no longer enrolled in the class? 

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I use list view for canvas dashboard. I recently withdrew from a class and in the list view for dashboard the upcoming assignments are still showing up for it there. How would do I get rid of it? 

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I've been playing around with it, and I feel like I already know the answer....Curious if I could assign an essay quiz on canvas and add a rubric to it.

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I have a course that I made live today and nobody can access it. It consists of several modules containing pages of content, and a quiz. The course is an "ongoing" course, so it should be accessible and the start date under settings is yesterday.I ve...

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My turn it in window is not completely showing which prevents me from submitting an assignment please help!

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Is there a way to link publication of an assignment or discussion to the publication of a page?  I often have several assignments linked to a lesson page, and I'd love to be able to have them go live when that page does, rather than having to publish...

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We are trying to align quiz questions to Outcomes in New Quizzes. So far, it has worked well to see how students are doing on each quiz with each Outcome. We would like to track the Outcomes for Quizzes to get data for the entire quarter. I wasn't ab...

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I want to revise an exam and use questions from another exam already in the same canvas course.

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How do I transfer a quiz from one class to another class?

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How do I view/join student groups? I want to view and also actually JOIN their group to see what they see before I tell them about their groups in class.  But when I click on 'People' while in Student View mode, then click on Groups and select a grou...

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When I choose arrange by assignment group I expect the grades to be in alphabetical order. They are not. Why not?

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I am an English teacher and I have students engage in essay "workshops" in groups in a Discussion where they post first by a deadline, and then interact later (I reopen the discussion with a new due date). Sometimes, after the first post deadline has...

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We recently had an issue where students had a problem seeing the equations in our math placement tests. The question would appear, but where the equation should appear was empty space. The issue seems to have been confined to the Safari browser, but ...

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The place to submit my assignments isn't showing up. My instructors have not set it to where I can't submit assignments. How can I fix this?

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I can't create a parent account there is no link on the log in page. I did log in on my computer with my sonsinfo but when I go to his dashboard the outline of his courses flash blurry lines....why?

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