We noticed that in some courses suddenly the profile pictures of students are missing in Attendance view (they are still visible in Course menu - Persons). These pictures were previously visible.Is this something changed in a release, or is this a se...

I am an instructor using the Free for Teachers account and I have looked high and low for a way to change what is displayed in the students' "Name" field. For instance, some students, when signing up for Canvas, only provided their email address. Con...

When I restrict the assignment 'available from' date, students can no longer see any of the assignment details at all. All they can see is the assignment name and a message that says 'This assignment is locked until [date] at [time]'. Is there any wa...

My child graduated from High School last school year.  Yet I keep receiving Canvas email notifications about the school and I cannot figure out how to remove completely my Parent Observer account.  I've reached out multiple times but have yet to rece...

I keep getting emails I cannot stop, with no discernible way to unsubscribe.  The only note at bottom of email states "You are receiving this email because you are a member of VikingEngagement."  I cannot figure out anywhere in Canvas how to remove m...

The feature I loved most about the "Classic" Quiz was the ability to use short quizzes and isolate on students who missed certain questions via the "View Question Breakdown" (see attached).  Am I missing this in the New Quiz function?  As a formative...

I know there is a walkthrough for Canvas Catalog. I am not using Canvas Catalog. I need to ensure only email address from specific institutions are able to be added to a course.  

How do I communicate to the Canvas design staff to suggest a feature that I would find useful as an instructor? (What I want to be able to do is to post video comments on assignments, and not have students see the comments till the grade is posted. I...

I have been trying to embed a YouTube video as a Canvas page and I have no "Embed" option.  Under "Upload Media" there are only two options instead of three (Computer, Record, ?)  Where did my "Embed" button go?  And how can I get it back?

Does anyone know if Canvas supports a pointer system, like PowerPoint? I suffer from RSI and this would be an invaluable tool.

We have been using the Attendance tool for our practical sessions. We have around 130 students in a course.Their seating chart was set up at the start of the semester. However, since last week, the tool displays the option to change the amount of ren...

why is my canvas dashboard not displaying any conent?

In Canvas quizzes, is it possible for a teacher to hide the timer (disable the view of the timer) from a student, but keep the timer on? The query is based for students who have accommodations with extended time, and the teacher wants to keep track o...

SpoilerHello! I would like to export scores from a different learning software (TopHat) to Canvas Gradebook. The order of the names on the two different export files are different, but I was wondering how much of the gradebook csv needs to be the sam...

The assignment submission where more than one attempt was made the comments are not being returned. Here is the query being used. query MyQuery {assignment(id: "895") {htmlUrlnamepointsPossiblesubmissionsConnection {nodes {user {emailname}originality...

Last week I suddenly found I could not edit my Canvas courses.  As it was my organisation's site, I contacted canvasadmin, who did not know why.  I also checked and found that the same thing had happened to my Free for Teacher account, so I figured i...

Hi allI'm wondering if there is a way to generate a report by user for a subaccount showing total number of minutes/hours each user (both teachers and students) has been active in each course? I have 40+ courses in a subaccount so it would be less th...

Upon returning from a short break, I logged in to my canvas page (Instructor) and the labels down the left side of the screen (Announcements, Quizzes, Lock Down Browser, Modules, etc) have disappeared. The content in the center of the screen takes up...

how do i edit an assignment my proffesor gave me to do