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I am a senior high teacher and would like to add an image answer into the "grading notes" of the new quizzes for future teachers to use to help them consider a students answer.  For example, I am teaching a subject I have never taught before and it's...

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I published several assignments in a group that are visible in the Instructor view but that do NOT appear when I switch to Student view. This is what is visible in the Instructor view:     When I switch to Student view, the entire group disappears. ...

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I teach Classical Greek online. Can I change to the Greek alphabet in quiz questions?

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I moved to a new district and am setting up my Canvas course. Previously we has access to example template pages that we could import into our course and fill out. Wondering if I can find something like that. I tried looking in commons but they are p...

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how do I change my name that appears on my profile in canvas? 

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     I am a student attempting to access information from a few of my archived courses.      I cannot access information uploaded to an archived course. Basically any assignment where I was required to submit a file such as a PDF or PNG cannot be acc...

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There is not a way to assign/provide the accommodations a special education student is required to have according to his/her Individualized Education Plan. The Mastery platform provides the option to assign an assortment of accommodations that an IEP...

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I attempted to "Print Blank Quiz" on a New Quiz, but after selecting that and choosing the font size, the next screen just kept spinning and never showed anything.  Curiously, if I instead selected "Print Key (With Answers)", there were no issues. Th...

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While building the API client side interface for my employer I deleted a Term because I thought I'd be able to recreate it. Well, apparently Canvas keeps the term but it is no long accessible to be used or referenced in subsequent API calls. This wou...

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As an administrator in Canvas, I am looking for a way to generate an overview of all quiz names across the entire (sub)account. I’ve checked the account settings to see if I can export a report, but I haven’t found anything specific for quizzes. Is t...

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We'd like to share a set of 2 interacting modules into Commons.These modules are  a part of a course that we share in commons module by module. But we need to share these two modules as a set.Is there a way to share the set as one commons item?So far...

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I am a top level admin at my institution with all Canvas permissions and currently I cannot add any teachers to any courses. I follow all the usual steps and it takes me right to the end and when I click add the teachers do not appear in the course. ...

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I need to know if its a even or odd day tomorrow.

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Howdy, In all of our courses we have an icon on our home page that takes students to their grades. The grades page is hidden in the Navigation so they have to use the icon on the home page. In the canvas student app students can click on the icon to ...

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I was grading an assignment for my sophomore class. As I was grading, the page went blank and changed to "Page Not Found". The assignment and all submissions are gone now. I have checked the Assignments page in Canvas and the assignment is no longer ...

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the class I am enrolled in is not listed. what do I do?

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We work in PLCs at our campus and one of our members has copied over assignments for us, both by sharing and in our team Canvas page and it is not correct. Please help!

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The parent portal on both a PC and through the app are worthless.  Neither are accurate, most classes on the app showing last grades from November 2024, we are in January 2025! PC view, showing missing assignments, or incomplete items, but when email...

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I found instructions on how to use the lockout feature, but it says that my Canvas Admin must enable this feature. How do I go about getting that done? Thank You! Trisha Maysetniemimayse@mcovenantacademy.org

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Hi friends-My University is migrating from Brightspace to Canvas. Some of the courses have a lot of extranal links, images, etc. One of our faculty members is looking at close to 140 missing/broken links, mostly to .jpegs and .pngs. Does anyone know ...

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Is there a way to prevent a student from "right ckicking" on a Canvas quiz question. Once the student right clicks and saves the text they can paste the question into Chat GPT to obtain the correct answer.

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After spending 30 minutes in online chat, I couldn't find a solution to this issue. As an instructor, I consider this a major design flaw!At the beginning of every semester, I import courses from the previous semester in Canvas, including all announc...

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Is there a way for two teachers to mark the same quiz? Also is there a way to hide the teachers feedback/ marking until it has been proofread and checked?

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Why can't we embed images in Canvas group emails?

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I'd like to add deadlines and due dates for assignments and quizzes to the group calendar for every group in a group set in my course. Even though these assignments and discussions are assigned to these groups, they do not appear to show up in the gr...

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I am wondering about best design practice for an instructor to place multiple images with text below each image on a page. Here is a demo Canvas resources page that does just that:  https://resources.instructure.com/courses/11/pages/course-home-page ...

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Greetings, I want to give students a self-assessment that includes questions with Likert scale answers.  The assessment measures their mindset, attitude, and behavior as a pre-test and will be used to assess changes in their mindset after completing ...

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I submitted a media recording for an assignment.  I recorded it through Canvas and the assignment now says "Media is currently being converted, please try again in a little bit." whenever I try to watch it, and my teacher is having the same issue.  I...

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Colleagues, Do you include the wording (or wording to the effect) "Use the Previous or the Next buttons to navigate through module materials." when designing Canvas content? (Noting that there is a Next and Previous button on every page.) Is it neces...

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