Is there a report I can run that will show when a user was added and how?  Ex.  I want to know who was added by SIS and who was added manually.  In addition, if manually, which individual with admin privileges.  I bet there is - but I have searched u...

I am in the process of cleaning up my Canvas Training courses. Some of them go back almost 2 years and most of the teachers can't even access them because of the date restrictions. Is there anyway to do a mass delete for this course? Some were set up...

Bug when adding youtube videos with time codesteps:Create new modulecreate new text pagetype in a paragraph of textpaste in URL to video URLhttps://youtu.be/zC-fjTuLl1c?t=7m0ssaveview pageresult:  video shows up, but click play (>) and it does not st...

Hi everyone,I got a few requests from faculty asking for a live dashboard to track students usages and understand students' learning on Canvas. The three key points that they would like to see from this dashboard are:* track students uses and progres...

I teach computer science, specifically the Python language.  In Python, spaces at the beginning of lines of code have important meaning.  I give a lot of comments about my student's code using the Speed Grader.  However, I have found that spaces at t...

We've recently had some trouble with links not carrying over from the master course to the live course.We check all the links before copying and assume all is well; however, recently one speed grader rubric did not carry over. In a different course, ...

Here we are the last day of our semester when I receive an email from an instructor letting me know when she runs the attendance report from Canvas the Student ID column is NOT our SIS imported ID's. Anyone run into this? 

Hi,Our school is in the process of migrating from Sakai to Canvas. I am helping design standards and practices that will be used for all our programs. We use Modules as the main organizational tool for the course content. It occurred to us that Assig...

Is anyone delivering electronic reserves (book chapters, articles, etc.) via Canvas?  Our Technology Librarian is investigating how other institutions are integrating E-Reserves with Canvas.  The are looking to change from their current E-Reserve sys...

Hello Everyone who is reading this!I know Give Pulse does not have an integration currently with Canvas. But, have any you incorporated it into a course or any element of Canvas for your students?-Kari

Has anyone customized their login page using JavaScript? We have our main login page with Shibboleth, but need to add text to the login page for our internal Canvas accounts.  I've found the following resources: However, since I don't use JavaScript ...

I am trying to "update multiple courses in an account." The canvas live API lists a parameter: course_ids (List of ids of courses to update. At most 500 courses may be updated in one call.) I've tried typing in the Canvas course ID, (usually a six-di...

Hi everyone, Does anyone have an institutional Canvas policies and procedures guide they'd be willing to share?  I'm at a higher ed institution and we know amongst those of us who use Canvas what we do but in the event something were to happen, we'd ...

I went looking for information about how Canvas calculates outcome mastery, and in this post learned the following:If a student's outcome score ends up to be a decimal, the score levels are calculated based on half of the outcome mastery threshold. F...

When aligning an question bank to an outcome, one must set "mastery for any score at or above" a certain threshold. The default in Canvas is 60%, and that feels rather low to me. For most grading scales, it would be 1% higher than failure, and I'd li...

We have a concern about possible cheating in a discussion board.  A Spanish teacher pointed out that certain discussion posts have a strange colored box around student responses.  We are wondering why this might be,Example:Compared to this:

I do not want Canvas to calculate my students' final letter grade. I want the freedom to issue the semester letter grade in an additional grade center column. For example, a student earns 895 points out of 1000, a B on my grade scale--but the student...

Some teachers have created group sets and individual groups inside their courses but it seems the students can post whatever they want on the group calendar. Can this be prevented?