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i’ve been trying to log into my canvas account in my laptop but for some reason my password won’t work. i’ve tried to reset my password but i haven’t received the email at all. I’m logged into the app on my phone so i know the email is correct. 

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Hello,I keep attempting to submit a video recording through the canvas capability of recording. It keeps coming up as a grey box and when I attempt to submit, it tells me the file is still uploading. I've waited hours with no successful upload. I've ...

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Hey, how do I delete some of the subjects in my dashboard if I don't need them and accidentally accepted them.

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Hello, I created a group in Canvas for 15 students.  Within this Group, I created 6 "Pages" about 1 week ago.  Two of those pages were given "to-do" dates.  The others were not given "to-do" dates.  I logged on today, and 3 pages are missing.  Just g...

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I have added comments to my peer review and attached a file to the comment section on the side. Yet my peer review will not submit because it states, "This peer review is not finished yet. For it to be considered finished, you need to leave at least ...

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Hi - I don't think this feature is available, but: can we open all of our comments at one time in the Grades area, so we & the student can see them all without clicking on each and every one to open?  Thanks!

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Can Canvas do Full Batch Update on their end if we are sending them zip file via sftp? Is anyone doing that?

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Teachers have started inputting their graded assignments to Canvas for this current school year. I have one instructor that can see his correct students for this year populate in the Grade Guardian feature, but he cannot see any of their work, grades...

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Has anyone had the experience of the time zone setting not working correctly?  I live in Knoxville TN and have set my time zone for Eastern time.  However, everything message I send or received shows a time 2 hours earlier than what was actually done...

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I am "stuck" in a couple classes that were made for different groups/clubs at school. I don't see a way to remove myself from the classes (which I am a student in). How do I do this?  

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In Assignments, you can individualize due dates by section or individual. Is there a way to do the same for pages? Thanks! 

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I have created a portfolio template that I want my students to use in google sites. When I create a course kit to assign it to them so they have their own copy of the site, the site does not show up on their end. It shows that it was assigned and tha...

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after i was added as a TA to a class, my canvas to do list looks different and my announcements no longer come up as tasks. 

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My students do not have BigBlueButton conferences available to them. The conferences are listed on the instructor view, but not on the student view.

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One of my instructors reported that Quizzes were not working in her course. Upon inspection, I see that all the Classic quizzes that used to be in this course were converted to New Quiz. No explanation why quizzes that were imported into a shell alon...

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I am trying to get the students to be able to annotate on a PDF using the Canvas annotation option.Some videos I watched are pretty straight forward and show that once I click the annotate tool when creating an assignment, the students can then see a...

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I am trying to determine page activity on the pages in our Student Resource Center, (which I've built in Canvas) like I can do with a regular website.The closest I've come is the View Access Report but that's for an individual and I'm looking to see ...

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Please ask someone to follow up on this suggestion board---https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Add-due-date-for-completing-peer-review/idc-p/537125#M70873it is a feature desperately needed for writing classrooms like mine. 

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We have to have a calendar - months with clickable dates - for our student facing front page. I am making buttons and inserting them into a table. This. Is. So. TEDIOUS. We are on an A/B schedule. It's a lot. I wonder if anyone has created one that t...

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My canvas dashboard wont load after resetting it many times. 

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I often need to make updates to many courses at the same time. I have template versions of the course that then get copied out to the instructors. Sometimes, I need to make a change to one page or one module. There are warnings that importing the sam...

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Student here but I went through the Canvas help (done through my university and they didn't have a fix). Copy/Paste not working in Canvas specifically for the feedback/comment box in Chrome. Doesn't allow for any action other than typing and when you...

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Two questions:#1: Is there a way to change/add in a deduction for late work? Currently, you can set it to "x" percent per day/per hour, but is it possible to just deduct "x" percent per submission, regardless of lateness?#2: Is there a way to change/...

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I recently transitioned from Learn to Canvas.  In Learn, I had a lot of font size problems which unfortunately transferred into Canvas.  Is there a way to globally set the font size and apply it to a whole quiz or test?  Alternatively, is there a way...

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My course was recently transitioned from Learn to Canvas.  Each Module has a variety of items (readings, assignments, and solution sets) that I need to publish at different times.  When I am editing a Module, I mark each individual item as to whether...

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My canvas isn't working, the only things on my side bar is the help center, my inbox, and "dashboard" but none of my classes will show up on there. 

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We use Canvas passback to sync to our SIS (PowerSchool, PowerTeacher Pro). This is the first year this has ever happened... All grades being passed back from Canvas to PTP are flagged in PTP as "collected". This includes the zeros for missing work. T...

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No need to answer, as I see there are answers already here.  Just trying out the forum.

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I have activated the Talent by TORSH external app using the consumer key and shared secret information from my TORSH account. The app appears in my course navigation options; however, when you click on the TORSH Talent option there is an error messag...

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I upload PDFs to my files (not course files) and then link to them in several assignments. Students who are using the iOS app have sent me screenshots of an error message, "The specified resource does not exist," when they try to click the file link ...

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