We have Canvas Studio for video submissions to assignments. What is the difference between that and "media recording" submissions? Are they the same? Does Media Recordings still have limitations compared to Studio? There is no choice for submitting j...

Students who are dropped from a course in our SIS (PowerSchool) are still appearing in the course on Canvas as "Inactive."  I've tried removing them from the course directly in Canvas, but they reappear after the roster sync.  Is there a way to not h...

Hello, All!  We have an instructor at our institution that has made updates to the master course, but when the master course was copied over for her 8-week session, the changes did not copy over.  One example - The instructor updated the unit 1 quiz ...

If you are an instructional designer at a small private university, and there are four or less instructional designers at the institution, who manages your LTIs (TurnItIn, etc.)? Do you, or does the IT department?

Hello community, since october 21, we cannot generate the Student Submissions report from canvas, it got stuck in this state (image 1), we tried everything to get it unstuck and nothing works, any  help?         

  Hi All, I can't stand this ⬇️ and am looking for any and all advice.  Thanks so much, Chérie

Good day,I’m looking for the correct format to include feedback on individual answers in my multiple-choice quiz.I’ve tried using the @ symbol as well as + or - indicators, but neither approach seems to work. I’ve successfully imported the quiz along...

I have created a staff skills survey using the Canvas Quiz tool. I them made my own custom grading scheme to assign a 'Tier' to a particular score from the quiz. The tier shows up fine in the gradebook. But when I come to export the gradebook it rev...

Hi. Can somebody help me understand why a student is getting this error message: "Giving up on retrieving media sources. This issue will probably resolve itself eventually." when uploading videos please? The videos are under 500 MB, internet is stabl...

Hey! Can we delete selected unpublishes canvas accounts?

We have multiple teachers getting the Service is currently unavailable message in the SpeedGrader doc viewer. I have checked the Canvas status here https://status.instructure.com/ There are no known errors showing but there is an previous incident fr...

"Response Questions" is a category that made up 25% of my grade in my AP World class. Last time I got 11/12 for the Response Questions in the last unit, and my grade went up at least 2% or 3% I think. I got 11/12 again for this unit, the teacher ente...

I believe Canvas should add the option to give students partial credit for sorting and categorization style questions so that faculty can more accurately assess students' understanding of the material. If one aspect of a student's answer is wrong, th...

Is it just me, or is it ridiculous to not be able to just UNPUBLISH a quiz in Canvas? Like others, I have created quizzes that are automatically published (another annoying "feature") and students are hopping on and taking quizzes before we have cove...

Hello,Our organization uses Canvas to provide training courses for our industry. We are finding that some factory workers that could benefit from these training courses do not have personal emails or unique corporate emails to use when enrolling. Is ...

This new quarter I suddenly have an issue with the CommonLit external tool. The other external tools work great, but whenever I try to use CommonLit, I get the sad face paper icon. I have used this option plenty of times, so I am not sure why it isn'...

My course is published as of today. I'm trying to see my students. I see no People tab? Help. Thanks

Hi everyone,  I hope someone can confirm my understanding here. I am setting up a new quiz where I want student's answers to be automatically submitted once the due date is reached. I have read this article: How do I make a quiz available before or a...

Hey, Canvas Community!   Happy Monday! We're in the process of implementing Simple Syllabus, and I'm wondering if anyone is willing to share the training assets they made for their faculty re: Simple Syllabus and Canvas. Anyone have a deck or a prese...

I would like to make a table that has multiple rows, however, each row will have a different number of cells/columns. I understand I can do this in HTML editor, however, for teachers who want to quickly create a table, what would be the best way? (I ...

Hi everyone! In our school, we've traditionally used the quiz application in Canvas for conducting exams. Typically, teachers could set their own grading policies for quizzes they created, including options for manually controlling when scores are vi...

(I am new to Canvas, so perhaps I am missing something obvious.)Issue #1: I want to create a separate assignment group for Extra Credit which can boost students' overall percentage grade by up to 1%. My other assignment groups add up to 100%, and eve...

I teach photography and I am looking for a way to quickly view and grade student images.  What format should I have them save their files as when they are saving from Photoshop? I had an assignment recently and all their files were jpf and I wasn't a...

where do you set preferences about grade notifications?

Dear Madam / Sir.My current three Canvas LMS courses, DG4BBR, 98FMXT, and GETP3G, are their course codes, but I have an issue with posting new or reading the old announcement messages. My students and I can read the title list. However, the message i...