Hello everyone, I’ve noticed that when I create a course manually in Canvas, students do not receive notifications for announcements. However, when courses are created and loaded through SIS, students do receive those announcement notifications. Is t...

In 2 courses my books are grayed out and not able to be clicked on, what do I do, who do I contact? Everyone I have reached out to so far blames it on a different dept.

I have a new faculty member who created a course and began creating Question Banks in it using the Classic Quizzes engine. He had hoped to build question banks in this "Quiz Banks" course during the term and be able to use Find Questions to populate ...

I was updating point values in a couple of assignment that some students had already submitted and now I can't get the point values to match, for example if you add up all of the possible points in a quiz it adds up to 8 but the assignment says its w...

Google has rolled out a new "Homework Help" button in the URL bar of Chrome, and I just tested it out. During a Canvas quiz, if I click that button in the URL bar and select a quiz question in Canvas, it'll spit out the answer right in a sidebar with...

In the new update, I am finding a frustrating glitch when I enter a typed comment to a student submission via SpeedGrader.I type my comment, then click "Submit"--but when I move to the next student submission, SpeedGrader has created a second blank c...

How can I remove a course from Canvas that I am not teaching?

I have created the letter grading scheme below. I want to give students a 4.1 on their assessments to show that they exceeded (A+) expectations. In the past, I would give students a 5 instead of a 4.1, but that pulled their overall grade up too much...

I have 2 Canvas courses, and then I am also added to 9 other courses as the coordinator.  Is there a way to prioritize my 2 courses so that my student work appears on the top of the To Do list?  Yes, I can "x" out the other 9 courses worth of work, b...

I teach students of varying math levels and set up the course to have each module as a different subject. Within each module is lessons 1-30 and include assignments for each lesson called Worksheet A, Worksheet C, Worksheet E, Test, etc. It took hour...

Hello, We have just enabled an automated integration that allows our students, teachers, and courses to be pulled from our SIS to Canvas. Post-integration, we noticed that courses, students, and teachers from sections that will not be using Canvas we...

Hello Canvas Community, We’re running a professional education course with two enrollment options: One with a final assessmentOne without a final assessment All other course content is identical. We decided to try cross-listing the two versions of th...

Are all announcements emailed to students when they are published? 

When courses need major revisions, it would be helpful to export the content into a word document to share with the subject matter expert to reiview and suggest edits. Is there a way to download all course content and export it into word document for...

How do I set up Microsoft Word on Canvas

Canvas suddenly stopped sending me e-mail notifications even tough I have my settings set-up. Then I realized a recent Canvas release on 27th of August and investigated further. I realized that this was the time the issue started. I received notifica...

How do I sign up for Check Off Spot? I tried signing up for a spot, but the link will not open. Need help,please. Thank you.

Dear Canvas, why do you insist on pushing all the default pages, modules, navigation apps, and assignments that I then have to go in and delete every year? Is my school district doing this or are you? I clean all this crap up every year. Next year st...

Hi everyone, I’m looking for a way to generate a list of users who have been inactive in Canvas since a given date (e.g., no activity in the last year). Is there a Canvas API endpoint that can return users who have not had any activity since a specif...

Hi there, I clicked on "Check the Rubric," and it did not show anything but the attached. I was trying to see how I can get the maximum points. Please see attached.  Thank you, Raquel 

Standard Number: 2.7A                                                   Grade Level: 2nd grade Strand: Algebraic reasoning. The student applies mathematical process standards to identify and apply number patterns within properties of numbers and oper...

Hello, I don't see any content for this article, as the widget guides could not be displayed. Is there a way that I can make this article viewable, or is it an internal issue on your end? Other than an annoying banner in the middle of the page, askin...