Someone put an announcement into my course and locked it.  I would like to delete and put my own announcement in.  Need help.  Thx

Background:We are building a LTI 1.3 app, for that we are using TSUGI(GitHub - tsugiproject/tsugi: Tsugi Admin, Developer, and Management Console (pls join the dev list) ) to handle the LTI flows and we are building a "mod" in this system which will ...

In searching around, it seems like it's possible for an Admin to (1) change the student role so that no student-users can do student-to-student messaging or (2) create a different type of student role who cannot message other students, but are there ...

We have numerous third party external accreditation audits over the year. Is there a user role for this? Does anyone have a suggestion on the best way to set one up? I would like to know if anyone has set up a Course Role or special Account/SubAccout...

All of a sudden files and documents submitted by my professors, in the modules, will not load their preview. The blue wheel just spins and spins. I have to download every document to look at it. Did I disable something, maybe? 

Hello fellow Canvas users. I have a kind of unique question. My school is transitioning the majority of course courses from a previous LMS we have used to Canvas which we have had for a number of years. In this move we'd like to control who and what ...

I want students to be able to watch a lecture video in Canvas but I do NOT want them to be able to download or save the video outside of Canvas (to their laptop, etc.)How can I set up this kind of file restriction?

Question bank questions are disappearing after importing QTI files from a course pack. I will import the QTI, create a quiz from the quiz bank, return to the quiz a few minutes to hours later and the quiz bank went from having 100+ questions to less ...

I cannot upload a power point presentation. I keep getting error code 400. How can I fix this?

Has anyone continued working on a Canvas chatbot? I'm trying to make a course-specific chatbot that emerges on course homepage and prompts the student to click on frequently-asked-questions which the instructor has written, and which may change week-...

Hi. I'd like to embed a simple question onto a page and record students answer.  This feature has long been promised - has it finally been delivered with New Quizzes?  I have just arranged to have New Quizzes enabled by my institution but I can't see...

Students submitted assignments by linking their Google Doc, and their documents were shown as gdoc, which I could not open. Could you please let me know how to open files with extension of gdoc?

Link a url to an announcement

I’m running into a Canvas issue where a new rubric I’m creating (complete/incomplete, with points removed) reverts criteria to alphabetical order when I post it. I’m not running into the same issue with rubrics that were created and imported from las...

After completing a quiz with question banks, I noticed an error in one of the answers . . . actually a student did.  When I go back to the question bank and change the answer, it does not regrade the quiz.  How can I make this happen.  PS I have 250 ...

I'd like to set up quizzes so that students see one question at a time but are able to skip and return to a question they can't immediately answer.  Right now if they press "Next" they're moved to the next question and can not return whether they ans...

As a faculty, when I click reply (like on student post), the system spawns the text editor box (YEAH).  However, the cursor is NOT positioned in the upper left to start immediately typing.  This forces the author to click reply, allow the spawn, then...

Can you change the YouTube search box so I can paste a URL for a video into it and it will find the video it links to? I'm sick of my videos looking wonky because search will find some videos, but then when I search for other ones- even if I use the ...

Hello, can I change the order of my quizzes on the Quizzes page? I am able to do that on the Assignments page, but I can't figure it out on the Quizzes page.

I've figured out how to embed a Power Point into a Canvas page, but when I come back the next day, I get this message: Any ideas on how to fix this? I want to make sure my students can view the ppt. with hyperlinks that work. The hyperlinks don't wor...

Is it possible to download completed quiz responses not just the results? I am looking to store the evidence for future audit purposes.

I want to unpublish announcements. I still want to be able to see them but I do not want all of them to be visible to students.  I can only find a delete option.  I don't want to delete them completely. I just want to take some away for students to m...

My my fifth grade partner and I share materials, so I import her reading modules and she imports my math modules. I imported her module for our week 2 instruction and added them to my own week 2 module. When I went to grade one of the assignments in ...

Hello I am trying to change the password that was assigned to me in my account, but when I enter the "changeme" password it said is incorrect. How can I change it so I can create my own password.

I've created the assignment, checked all the appropriate boxes and tried to "Save and Publish".  The screen goes gray while it works, then brightens but assignment is not published.

Hello all,I'm a Canvas admin for a school and we recently have started heavily using Canvas for our now online classes. Professors want for students to be notified of announcements and changes to their grades via email as soon as possible and we woul...

Can anyone suggest which function of Canvas would best allow us to:-Create a space where students can answer a couple of quick questions:1. Do you need staff to contact you about your learning?a YESb NO2. How are you feeling (like a mental health tra...

How does the activity log work for a quiz and how should I interpret it?The log will say "Stopped viewing the Canvas quiz-taking page..." and then when they resume. I told my students I could monitor their activity during an exam, so they should not ...

Quizzes - Allowing students to select from a group on launched quiz. I have been a long time user of Canvas. My one problem is how to provide students choice in selecting short answer questions without having Canvas indicate that all questions are be...

I am administering my exam to a course with a combined enrollment of 500, as a multiple-choice Canvas quiz.  The course has two sections, 12:30 - 1:45 pm and 2 - 3:15 pm, EDT.  I understand how to assign a different quiz link to each section separate...