Is it possible to disable a user account and prevent the user from accessing Canvas?  Or must I delete the user account?

Is there a way to code an absence as approved?  I have a student who was absent for a religious observance; I don't want his class participation grade to suffer from the absence.

Why did we get rid of the Mute assignment function in Speedgrader? It's so much convoluted now that we need to go to grades (so out of Speedgrader), find the assignment, select manual grading policy, then go back to Speedgrader. And when finished wit...

We've created several groups for a project in our course. Each project has a different teacher so the course has several (over 20) teachers. We've noticed that several teachers receive notifications when a student starts a discussion in one of the gr...

I have turned off the text notifications for assignments in my settings  but it keep texting me. How do I  make it stop? I get multiple text per day. 

HelloI have this pop-up which recently appeared while I was grading student assignmenta. I've gone to the 'Grades' section and followed the prompts to export the CSV file in the hope that it would then disappear, however it's still there. I'm unable ...

I need help changing a powerpoint to a pdf so students without powerpoint on their computer can access it.  Where are these files kept, in commons? Thanks, Jan G, Instructor

Hello Everyone,I have done some looking around and this has come up before; I have also found some university library websites that address it. However, I still find a lack of clear guidelines about what types/quantities of copyrighted materials can ...

HiI have two issues.  I am a professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University.  1. Canvas has the wrong email address for me and this is creating a problem for me.  My email is llevy1@yu.edu, NOT lynn.levy@mail.yu.edu (that is a stud...

how do you copy an assignment from one class to another?

Why is this wrong?I have no margin of error, but it shouldn't be nescessary either, as it is the exact same number.What is happening?It started out as only making the error for rewriting 30 % to 0,3 since I have it set to give an answer with two deci...

Why don't I receive a badge when I've finished the course ?

can I use the "edit/insert media" icon in the edit bar on a Canvas Page to embed a wmv or mp4 video that I have uploaded to my canvas course files?

Some of my students are not able to upload a jpeg or mov. or pdf, into an assignment even though I have listed them as being acceptable files. They get a message that the file is not allowed. I am not sure how to instruct them as to how to upload a m...

A student emailed me that they can't access their auto textbook.  They stated "My auto access textbook keeps referring to something called launchpad but I can't seem to access any of the links for this." Does anyone know what that means?  Or where I ...

I saw a similar question and the answer was to log out from my account tab, but that doesn't show up on my page

How do I purge the messages from last semester from the Canvas Inbox in my course? Help would be much appreciated.Brent Spaulding

I have several power point presentations I use in my class.  Several of the students have asked if they can have access to them.  Specifically there are 16 presentations, one for each week.  How can I upload the powerpoint presentations, either indiv...

I am assisting another professor on her course.  She has word doc links in some of the assignments for students.  When I view them in her student view, they open just fine with Microsoft Word.  When the student's attempt to open, they get an error me...

hi there I'm not able to load my dash board onto my laptop I can pull it up on my phone just not my lap top

I'm a student at https://www.canvas.net/I want to sign up at https://mde.instructure.com/login/canvaskindly guide me.