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My GCA students calendar on Canvas always seems to display the incorrect information for what classes she has each day. For instance, today for every block it says the same class when you click on them, when she has 5 different classes today. It neve...

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I'm looking for a product similar to AspirEDU's Instructor Insights that allows you to evaluate instructor participation. Or does Canvas have a built-in tool for this? Thanks!

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Good morning, I am currently in the role of 'sponge' in several of my former colleagues' sandboxes. The sandboxes were created for the purpose of collaborating. Now, I am no longer in those same collaborations and would like to remove myself as a spo...

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Hi I am Prakash Hinduja Consultant & Advisor, born in Amritsar (India) and now resides in Geneva, Switzerland (Swiss). Can you please share how you found your login page or what worked for you?Any help would be greatly appreciated! Regards Prakash Hi...

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on the link options, the instance domain is automatically prepended when editing a link. This unintentionally breaks jump to links.       The workaround is to edit in the html editor to remove the instance name. This workaround is not suitable for al...

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We are new to canvas, some students when sent the invite to register are getting the log in screen with no way to register.  Do we need to do something so they get the appropriate registration screen?

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Context: We have a Writing Center Resource Course that students can self-enroll into. We want students to be able to communicate with people with the Instructor role, but not any other roles, i.e. we don't want students to talk to each other in just ...

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Is it possible for Canvas to have an "Copy to All" button for assignments, modules, files, etc? Or a select dropdown menu to choose classes?

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Hi I'm Prakash Hinduja a visionary strategy, born in Amritsar, India, and currently based in Geneva, Switzerland. I’m working on building a quiz in Canvas and would love some advice on two things: how to properly create Fill-in-the-Blank questions, a...

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We are currently experiencing an issue where students are not receiving email notifications when a teacher posts an announcement on Canvas. As a result, students remain unaware of important updates until they manually log in to their portals. This de...

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When dragging and dropping assignments onto the calendar, the default time of 11:59pm is replaced with 12:59am. I have checked the time zone and default time at the Admin, Course and User level. Any ideas how to solve? 

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I am the main admin. We would like to streamline all communication to be in Canvas, but we don't see a way for parents to send a message to our office staff or admin.  Is there something we're missing, or is there a workaround?  If we created an Offi...

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Hi-I have been assigned to a class as a student instead of being a parent observer of the class. How can my student be switched to the class and I be switched to an observer? 

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I am a student using Canvas, and the last few days have been pretty rough. I am able to log onto my account and my classes pop up, but when I click on a class and go to do an assignment all I see are three of the boxes they are all white and loading....

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Hello,Upon logging into Canvas on my laptop since 8/4, I have not been able to see any of the module content, and I don't know why. Has anyone experienced this before, and what is the solution? 

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Hello, Has anyone found or has been sent information regarding how or what needs to be done to update the Microsoft Teams LTI's? Thanks, Melissa

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Hi everyone, I'm currently managing a course with over 100 students, and for efficiency, I'm considering grading quizzes offline (several questions are graded by autograder). As far as I know, it's possible to download students' responses using Stude...

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Hi I have been wondering about the options in the Help menu on the side bar. As a admin of our instance, I have seen students selecting the option to Report a problem, which raises a ticket with Instructure, rather than using the Ask your instructor ...

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Instructions for New Quizzes says that Matching questions have the ability to use Rich Content Editor and HTML view. However, I do not see this ability. The first link is broken for me, and the second link presumes access to the Rich Content Editor. ...

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Every year, it continues to be a problem that learning Outcomes do not import properly when a previous course is copied.  The Outcomes themselves import under the Outcomes tab, however - the Quizzes and Quiz Questions that are tagged with learning Ou...

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A department prefers to print student quizzes with both the student's answer and the correct answer identified, in an effort to prevent students from passing exams on to the next group.  When Moderating a Quiz, clicking the students name, right-click...

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I'm a student and I'm trying to sign up for a new class on my non-school main email. I got the invitation code to the class a few weeks ago and I was able to log into the Canvas to access it. However, after maybe a day or so and I re-opened Canvas to...

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Hello community,    Is there are tool available to auto remove students from a course due to attendance?  For example, if a student misses 8 classes, this tool will auto remove them from the course. 

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Is anyone familiar with a way to setup/create default assignment group categories and weights for an entire sub-account at the Canvas District Admin Level?  Our goal is to decrease grade pass back issues with teachers creating these on their own.

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Is there a way for students to see or be notified of a comment on their assignment submissions?

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Greetings! The college I work has a couple public courses (I think that's the right term) that students can join by going to Courses -> All Courses -> Browse More Courses. One of those courses is what we call the "Study Center" course. Basically it j...

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we provide students with exemplars to aid them in their assessment, but we don't want them to be able to download the documents.  Can we do this? 

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How do I get the final grade column to display a letter grade?

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I used group assignments for the first time this semester, and I love that I can send comments to the whole group and also to individual students.  It would be great if each comment displayed a notation so the students (and I!) could clearly see that...

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This long-running problem is still unresolved. When we try to invite students to a course, the invitation email is not received. I know this is an intermittent problem - sometimes it works. Last time we had to add students manually and send them each...

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