Is anyone having any current problems with VeriCite? We have a few faculty members saying that they are not getting originality reports back.

What is file format to populate sub-accounts with courses?

Anybody having issues with the To Do list on the dashboard not populating?  One of my instructors said she had a problem with this yesterday so I referred her to Canvas support.  Then this morning the same thing happened to me (I am both admin and in...

Is anyone starting to incorporate Augmented or Virtual Reality in their courses? There is a lot of buzz about it in different chatrooms and blogs. If so, what type of courses are you using it in?

I just started teaching a course in Canvas today.  Under People, I can see who has logged into the class and who has not.  Is there a way to message all the students who have no logged in yet?  I know I can add their names to a message one by one, bu...

Hello, we're looking for a web programmer/developer for Clark County School District. If you (or you know of someone) that would be interested in such a job in Las Vegas, give them a nudge to check it out. Division - Technology and Information System...

I use groups in many different ways in my classes and have recently been getting some comments from students about the large number of groups they have to manage across all of their courses.In looking at this from the student perspective, I can see w...

I wanted to share unexpected pitfalls I've found while working with Blueprints. My main example is using the blueprint_course_id field. Let's say you already have 100 courses associated with Blueprint_A. Next, you upload one new course using an SIS i...

We have been transitioning from our Blackboard Managed Hosting system (ending June 2018) over to Canvas.  As a Blackboard System Administrator I could go into the Authentication Logs and view the current login activity to see if users are successfull...

We have been set up with LDAP for over 18 months and it is working fine. For the past few months though, the "Test LDAP Authentication" feature on the Authentication page has failed to bind. Logins are flowing normally and have been. The problem we a...

Hi there,So I've read through How do I grade group assignments in SpeedGrader?, but it doesn't really lay out the steps needed to grade a group assignment and then change individual grades, without having to look up multiple help documents.  I like t...

Has anyone used or heard of Verbit.ai?  They seem to provide outstanding closed captioning at a reasonable price and integrate with Canvas.  If you have any information - good, bad, or indifferent, I would welcome your feedback.  If you prefer to con...

Dear Colleagues,Our IT staff has been tasked with ensuring that a student's preferred name and pronouns are displayed throughout our campus information systems. We would like to extend this information to the Canvas class roster and user profile as a...

Can an admin add a person outside of our school district to view a course? They would only need access to observe the course. If so, how is that accomplished?

Does anyone have a high quality example of content pages that are set up for students based upon the day of the week. I would like examples that are laid out well and have assignments, discussions and quizzes embedded in the page. 

I vaguely remember seeing some CSS or JS trick to have a global icon only visible for a specific role, but I can't seem to find that thread anymore.  Does anyone have info on this - either the trick itself or link to previous threads about this topic...

We have faculty who are looking for a way to tie questions delivered through the quizzes tool directly to outcomes to show mastery. I've not been able to find straight-forward information about whether this is possible. They've been told the ExamSoft...

Hey,Is there an easy way to use the icons from the stylesheet (http://instructure.github.io/instructure-icons/ ) in pages? Do teachers need to upload these icons into there course or can they use some embed code?

Is there an LTI App integration in the works for Articulate 360 eLearning software?

This question goes out to anyone in the Canvas community. So I wanted to try and figure out if Canvas offers any type of student surveys designed for administrators. Currently at our school we are using an a Service called Evaluation Kit to help admi...