Admins,How do you typically communicate Canvas (and other technology) updates with your faculty? I'm looking for some new ideas.Appreciate the shares!Sarah

Happily our district is making the move to Canvas this Fall (full implementation Spring 2017).  As such I am supporting faculty in moving their content from our previous LMS (blackboard) into Canvas.  All has gone fairly smoothly until today when I m...

Stupeflix Presentation​Make videos online with photos, clips, music - StupeflixStupeflix is a free, online tool for creating videos.  You can incorporate still images, videos, add audio, use "text 2 speech" for slide narration, add soundtrack audio/n...

I found the Canvas Style Guide through this group - awesome BTW. But, I now want to make my buttons all the same width. I don't know where to place the code?

A friend is using a different LMS (VLE) Firefly, which is very popular with UK schools. He tells me that the platform allows him to:(a). Viewable Documents. Drag over an Office file to a page in the VLE. The Office file then displays as open - eg lik...

Is there a way to mass upload student photos for their profile?

As a district instructional technology coach I have had several teachers ask for course / lesson templates to work off of. Sometimes the idea around "designing" a lesson page or structuring an entire course can seem overwhelming. Recently I had the o...

Does anyone know why we got this error even when copying courses within Canvas?WE can understand that it could happen when copying from Blackboard to Canvas but not within Canvas. Here are some error messages  Missing links found in imported content ...

Esteemed Canvas Admins,Are any of you currently using eSync Training with your Adobe Connect integration in Canvas?If so, can you answer three things for me?What sort of licensing do you have set up for Adobe Connect?What do you love about eSync?What...

Admins,Do you know if there is a resource either in the Community or online elsewhere with tips or information for troubleshooting student issues with Canvas Collaborations? I've noticed an uptick in complaints from students about issues with Collabo...

Hi All,We have setup our Canvas instance to use SAML for auth using our Office 365 credentials. I followed the steps here: Tutorial: Azure Active Directory Integration with Canvas LMS | Microsoft Azure and everything worked flawlessly, first time.Now...

Help!!I am developing a Canvas course that is self-paced but where submissions and discussion content will linger within the course providing information/viewpoints available for other users as they work through the course. Is there a way for student...

We've been having a rash of faculty adding in students using incorrect email addresses, which then causes the students to have multiple accounts.  Is there any way to disable the ability for non-admins to create new user accounts?  We've tried educat...

I have a set of files that I store on Google Drive in our university sponsored site. I want students to have access to these files. Here is an example set up in a folder called Doing Assignments ...I use both GoggleDrive and ODrive to access these fi...

We have have had Design Tools (apparently aka Kennethware;  @kenneth_larsen  available to our users during the the pilot phases of our Canvas adoption.  As we move into full adoption, we are needing to decide whether to continue to provide Design Too...

For anybody who may be interested, I have developed a small javascript snippet that will allow you to add your own question numbers to quiz questions (useful for grouped questions with different answer types i.e. Question 1(a) multiple choice, Questi...

HelloI am wondering how I can password protect an assignment the way I would a quiz? We have quiz items that are delivered to us and graded via an LTI external tool from a vendor. As a result, all of the items are considered assignments with an exter...

Deactivated user​  @matthew_weather , would you be willing to share a code snippet that you used to enable Tip 3 as seen here?  I'm playing around with your Tip 1, but am very intrigued by Tip 3.  Often, that workflow is exactly what I'm trying to do...

This is more of a "heads up" than a discussion, and it didn't fit as a question either.I was attempting to create a few courses via the GUI "SIS Import."  My courses.csv file had the structure shown below.I clicked on Choose File and selected the abo...