For the sake of reducing potential timeouts, what is the recommended maximum number of students starting a quiz, classic or new, at the same time?

We've been using Canvas since July of 2017 and ever since then we continually get reports from our students that they've posted something in a discussion thread and it is now missing. It doesn't matter if they reply to the main topic or another perso...

Hi everyone,Are there are market tools or plug-ins that can be integrated with Canvas to improve/enhance the teaching and learning experience. We have already integrated some tools like Teams, Blackboard Ally, Vevox, Panopto etc. but are interested i...

Why is it that when I create on BigBlueButton-Conference from the calendar, all participants are locked, that is, they cannot use their microphone and write in the chat. I can unlock them manually, but the default is locked. When I create the BigBlue...

Hi! I am a student recording final exams online. I have spent hours recording on Canvas' media recorder. After I record, I am stuck at the save or restart screen. My wifi is working, my connection is good, and everything should be working... but it w...

Can a New Quiz be set up as an anonymous survey?

A few of my assignments are not fully syncing to skyward. For example, one of my classes has the assignment and grade, but another one of my classes only the assignment is appearing with asterisks for all the grades even though they have grades in Ca...

So here I am trying to create a rubric for an assignment, and twice I have forgotten the extra, added step of "updating the rubric" at the bottom of the screen. Twice, I have lost all of my work. Twice, I have been left frustrated.Why can't the rubri...

I've had an issue that is driving me bonkers. I have created some assignments that are set up as text entry only. Students were instructed (as clearly and completely as I could manage) to either type their answers directly in the text box OR they cou...

My professor is asking me to respond to them on canvas but they deleted the course now I can't reply to them.

I get my child's grades every week, but when I go in to look at the assignments to see what he got wrong, I can't see the questions or his answers. I can't see anything to be able to review the material with him and talk things over with him about wh...

Hi Everyone,My online students need to submit a journal entry for each lecture video they watch.  I have been using a Google link for my students to use, but I would rather have it all in Canvas.  Each journal per lecture video is worth 4 points.  Ho...

Is there a limit to the number of students assigned to an observer to view on the dashboard?We have a need for observers to have 200+ students assigned to them and are finding Canvas will not show all students in the dashboard. Currently our observer...

Goal: I'd like to be able to crosslist sections of courses spanning two semesters that are generated by an SIS sync without students who are in separate sections each semester appearing in both sections at the same time. This will allow teachers of y...

How are you handling permissions for ESE/SPED teachers who need to monitor student progress for IEPs, etc? During our pilot at a single school, they had the Act As feature turned on, but since we've gone districtwide, that has been turned off for all...

I'd like to attach a private note with each question on my quizzes that only I can view.I update the content on my syllabus at least once per year and have associated content questions on my quizzes. However, there is no way (I can find) in Canvas to...

I am a university student in Virginia, and also have an anxiety disorder.  My anxiety is peaked when I look at my Canvas app on my iPhone to see it's telling me I have four "to-dos".  Then I spend a few minutes and find that I have already submitted ...

I'm at a loss on how to create grade passback. I've used the Canvas Live API tool to check the course ID, Student ID and assignment ID. All seem to work fine.When I try to use Score using those ID's, I keep getting errors.I've filled in all the requi...

How can you create a list of resources, including videos, elearns (scorm files) and readings for students? It would be helpful for students to see their progress of which one they have completed. 

The Assignment Batch Edit feature needs a major overhaul. I would like the ability to increase/decrease the due date OR the available date, why is it just both? Same for remove dates.  I would like the ability to manually enter a date that applies to...

In English (High School) there is sub criterias for each Criteria. Is it possible to create the sub-criteria for each criterion. E.g. Criteria 1 would have 3 sub criterias