Good day, I have noticed that the audio files uploaded on Canvas are producing a strange “cracking/underwater” sound during playback. Interestingly, when I open the same audio files directly on my PC, the sound is clear and does not have this issue. ...

A notice was added to the top of the Grades page some months ago and it takes up a lot of real estate. It makes it difficult to view and scroll through the student list in Grades. Can it please be widened do that it runs over 1 or 2 lines instead of ...

For assignments that are large files, eg: videos, I usually download the submissions as they often don't display in SpeedGrader. At the moment, Canvas only downloads all submissions for an assessment, it's no possible to only download the ones for my...

Hello,I’d like to suggest that the Assignments link in the left-hand course navigation menu be made mandatory for all Canvas courses.Many instructors choose to hide or disable the Assignments link, which can cause confusion for students. Without dire...

Hi! My course is an online film course with lots of films, clips and shorts. I am uploading them to my Canvas files but I have only 2 Modules (weeks) worth loaded and I already am at 50% of my GB allotment. Can I get more space?

I am a student in an online school. I have multiple courses on Canvas, and since the start of school recently, one of these classes have been using the 'Discussions' function frequently. One day, I noticed that the class (in 'card view' Dashboard) sh...

When I duplicate an assignment that is only assigned once to one section the date and time also duplicates.  This is very helpful when working in a schedule that rotates.  However, when I duplicate an assignment that is assigned to multiple sections ...

Problem Summary: I create course announcements in Word documents (up to 100 pages) that typically contain 3-4 embedded hyperlinks each. For years, I've been able to copy these announcements from Word and paste them into Canvas discussion boards or ri...

How does one moderate quizzes in order to allow additional time for students needing section 504 modifications?

Hello,I am blind and use my computer in windows high contrast mode (I've tried canvas high contrast mode, it is not as robust or accessible).  However, there are lines running through the words.  It looks like formatting doesn't quite line up.  I've ...

Hello, I am reaching out to see if there is a way to get Canvas to send notifications for discussion posts that have been resubmitted. It used to be a thing in Canvas but it no longer happens. So, for example, a students has submitted a reply to a di...

Can "People" added to the course with the role of "Peer Support" (e.g., student tutor) be removed from the Gradebook?

I'm trying to set up a quiz/survey in which students receive credit for each question they attempt (regardless of whether they answer it correctly) but do not receive credit for questions they leave unanswered. Currently, in the Graded Survey format,...

After creating courses in my external LTI Cengage (MindTap) and ensuring the links work, the grades do not passback to Canvas once the students complete the assignments as in the previous years.I have Cengage working on it but there may be an issue o...

Starting sometime last year and with increasing frequency, students' submitted papers will randomly lose formatting elements in the SpeedGrader view. It happens with PDFs, docX, Googledocs, etc. It seems especially to appear if the file originated in...

1. If I don't want the attendance tool grade to count toward student grades, do I have to mark it to not count both in the tool, and in the assignment? 2. If I mark it not to count in one or both places, what will I see in the gradebook? 3. If I mark...

I have recently added students to a new course page. When I added the students, they were added by their email addresses without their names. The students have manually changed their names in their profile, but these names have not synced over to the...

I work at an institution where, for historical reasons, Canvas exists alongside Moodle. One thing I noticed about Moodle which, in my humble opinion, is better than Canvas is the "Course Overview" menu. This creates a list of all sections and subsect...

I am writing to share a concern about how rubrics currently function in Canvas. At the moment, rubrics only total points across criteria rather than averaging them into a single proficiency score. This creates challenges for teachers, especially thos...

Student's generally do not seem to engage or respond to comments/replies given to them on Discussion posts or Assessment/quiz comments, so I am unsure if they are even seeing this feedback.  It would be great to know that they are notified when these...

I copied the Welcome! page from the pages in one course to another course. That seems to be the issue. The other items copied when I posted like assignments with correct dates and such. Now this Welcome! page has a lot on it. I'm wondering how I can ...

I have tried using the new feature that allows checkpoints in discussions, and don't plan to use it for the rest of the semester for reasons that others have already cited (such as the fact that the grade in my rubric is ignored and so the grades mus...

Hello Canvas Community,I would like to ask if there is a way to create a midterm report for each course in Canvas.What I am looking for is:A way to summarize student progress up to the midterm point.The ability to include categories of performance (a...

Is it possible to have a setting in the gradebook to where the maximum points deducted for late submissions can be set? I know that the lowest possible grade percentage can be set but I'm wanting late points to be deducted up to a max of 30 points. T...

Parents are receiving notifications from courses that their students were in last year.  The term dates were set to end at the end of the school year.  How can I as an admin turn off these notifications?  Do I need to conclude the courses?  What happ...

When will our courses be published so that we can see the syllabus, assignments etc.?

I'd like to use a daily accountability rubric to have students self-assess their durable skills, participation and engagement.  The videos I have seen online suggest that their is a self-assess check box but I cannot seem to find it.  Did it dissappe...

I teach at a high school and my class periods are 48 minutes long. I have students that receive 50% and 100% extra time on everything. I would like to know if there is any way to provide those students with the time they need to finish a test in the ...

I am an instructor, and I cannot find a recent post that answers this with the options I have.  I want to add a banner to the top of my courses, but I'm having trouble figuring out how.  The most recent search I can find is from 2020, and I do not ha...