Hello,  The Canvas video guides for students, instructors, and admins will be deprecated in December 2025. Where can I find a short video that provides an overview of Canvas's basic navigation for newly enrolled students? I could not find a video sho...

I have my students reading different novels in class. Is there a way to create a group so that I can assign work to only that group? Right now I have to manually assign the work to all 91 students. They will not be doing the work togetheras a group, ...

I'd like to know how others are indicating when a course in Canvas is either a "Core" course, or an "Elective" course. I was hoping to locate a field in the course settings that would indicate the "Type" or "Category" of the course, similar to the Co...

My students work at their own pace, and some are done before due dates. I would like to be able to sync their grades as it happens, but i dont want a zero or missing to show up in IC, because it isnt missing or a zero, it isnt due yet!!

Last year, I was able to use the [Control F] feature in Quizzes to locate specific items in a developed quiz. This allowed me to efficiently locate duplicate questions or make changes. That's no longer the case. While the [Control F} feature is still...

Hello Just wondering if anyone knows how to fix this Canvas issue, ""Whoops, look like nothing here, Page not found". I can see the contents on Canvas app on my phone but I have this issue when log on Canvas through desktop. Thanks !Phuong Nguyen

A recent update (some time between 4/9/2025 and 4/11/2025 seems to have broken a really important feature.  To meet accessibility requirements, I have been creating HTML files that contain a lot of mathematics (using PreTeXt, which is sort of like La...

How do I set up for the proctor exam?

For some reason, I can't input my quiz grades in the "quiz" column and have no idea why. I have reloaded grades, tried numerous times, but the numbers do not show up.

At my school we are being trained on Canvas.  The instructor mentioned that we might want to opt out of the Inbox and have student communications sent to college email.  I looked up on the Net how to do this, and found that you go to Account, then Se...

For my canvas name it is my under my mothers name, due to the fact that I am using her email for it. It will not let me change my Canvas name to my name.

Long story short I got injured.  My grading period ended last Friday 4/4.  We had until 4/11 to enter grades. We are on spring break and I have 3 assignments and random missing work to enter scores.  How can I do this?  Grades are not finalized til T...

I am wondering if anyone knows if Canvas has a time limit attached to their student user accounts, and if so, how long might they be. I want to know how long after I graduate my data would still be available if I wanted to access it still.

Can you set access to an assignment or module to be based off the start of the course instead of specific due dates? So instead of a date-based due date, it would be a delta days-based due date with an assignment due 10 days from course start, etc. I...

Editor - Similar to Word, is there a "format painter" tool in Canvas?

There is no way to get around the locked down videos that are hosted on Kaltura but need you to authenticate with Canvas to watch them. So, if we are trapped in the Instructure UI the least they could do is improve the embeds. Terrible. Either tiny, ...

Hi all! I work in the Office of Assessment and Evaluation at my institution and we have just started utilizing the Canvas outcomes function. I would like to keep track of how many faculty have linked outcomes in their courses to assignments. Since th...

Can you make a way to scramble test questions in the tests that we make? We can scramble answers but not questions. This would make mutiple versions of the test which would be really helpful and produce mastery .

Hi, I have did a workshop with a lecturer that would like to set not only a whole module, but specific module items a date and time to be published at. I'm having trouble finding the right solution to this, or if it is even possible. I am aware that ...

I am trying to prompt the students to engage more with the content and be able to examine their own learning. One idea is to spread a series of tasks, activities, and ungraded assignments, and only after completing those does the student have access ...

Hi there,I'm currently using the open source version of Canvas LMS and was wondering if there are any plans to bring features like New Quizzes or other SaaS-exclusive functionalities to the open source version in the future.Additionally, is there an ...

Hello, I'm experiencing an issue when trying to display an HTML file in a Canvas Module. I uploaded a .zip file to the Files section and selected the main HTML file as the content for a module item. However, when I try to open it from the Module, the...

I would like to propose a new feature in Canvas.    I have occasionally forgotten to all submissions for an assignment that I have created.  It would be nice to be able to see the submission status indicated in the "assignments" view of all assignmen...

I have created essay questions in my new quizzes several times for exams.  When I am grading their answers, we are able to type in a comment box underneath what they have answered correctly or incorrectly.  And then to justify the number of points I ...

Whenever I try to open my canvas home page or any class it only show black boxes and squares when I log in on Edge or Fire Fox it works fine but only on Chrome it wont load.