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As an instructor, I am giving weekly performance grades to 6 students. Each student has their own rubric.Do I set this up as an assignment to an individual student even though students aren't turning anything in? If it's an assignment, will it alert ...

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Is there a way to pull a report of students' grades across multiple classes? I am an instructor and have students who are in multiple classes with me and would love to be able to pull a report of their grades across all of the classes I am teaching t...

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I am new to Canvas.  I created a blank course for a teacher.  We then wanted to replace that course with a copy of another teachers pages.  I deleted the blank course and copied the other teachers course.  All worked fine, except I want to give the n...

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My calendar used to text wrap so I could see the title of the course easily. Now all I have are little bars with the date and time and I can only see the title if I click the bar or hover over it. It is super inconvenient and it makes the calendar si...

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Hello!I'm trying to set up exams in canvas so that students have one week to take the exam on their time. During this week, I'd like to have the setting so students can not go back and see the exam as to minimize cheating. After the due date, I'd lik...

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When I clicked to log in, it takes me to the DOE main landing page.What do I do?

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Does anyone have a way to create a dropdown menu under MODULES on the navigation bar? I'd like to toggle through and not have to keep using the back arrow and clicking on module again. PowerSchool has a great navigation bar where you can see the page...

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I pasted some content into a canvas page, the new text was in a different font, now I can't figure out how to set it to the same font as the rest of the text that was already on the page.  It's not Lato.  Do I need to go through all 20+ fonts on a tr...

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For some reason my canvas profile has me as a student but I need to be switched to a teacher, please help! 

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We've been experiencing issues with scorm files not copying over when a template course is copied. We've verified that the files exist in the templates. It doesn't happen every time or for every template. It seems to be hit or miss. It happens to dif...

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In Speed-grader I used to see the yellow-orange dot (un-graded items) were lumped together at the top.  Now they are spread out through the whole roll.  Can I make the grouping happen again?  It is much faster!

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When I am looking at an old quiz, I do not have the option of looking at it in SpeedGrader. Has this option been removed for old quizzes?

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Across all my courses the Discussion and Announcement sections are blank. The only way I can go to one is if I go back through my email and find one I can click a link to a specific threaded response. I can go to that response, but not to the thread ...

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I see all over the internet examples of teachers annotating student submissions in speed grader. In these speedgraders, you can clearly see options to draw and add text to student assignments. I have attached an image as an example.  However, in my s...

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I have completed a course from last year and I do not have the option to conclude the course.  Is there a way you can look at it on your end and help me do this? 

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The canvas discussion board is lacking function. It's hard to track conversations and see message threads. There are also no details of who the author is. Or not that you can see easily. If the person replying doesn't type their name, you have no ide...

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Is there a limit to how many canvas emails someone can send per second, minute, or hour? If there is, what is that limit?

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I am a teacher (and admin but this is for the teacher role) creating a course with quizzes, where do I turn OFF the notifications for students? I don't want the student to have to do anything as this is professional ed and so the students vary in kno...

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Hi!I am trying to activate the Announcements ("Anslag" in my Swedish version) in a course, but despite them being in the list of menu points being visible to students, they show up with the crossed-over eye in the menu on the left. I attach a screens...

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My instructor said to look at our emails and canvas shell course . She had sent an email over the weekend. What is shell course? I recently took a summer class and did well with canvas. I didn't receive any email from her, until recently , but I had ...

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Hi All,I am new to canvas. I would like to add Google Colab to my course on canvas to run python. Looking for links or howtos and advice thanks 

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I paid for and completed a learning module for cultural competency for medical providers. I am unable to access the quiz for my certification. Please help!

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Hi, we have a custom built SIS developed by a computer programmer on staff.  Currently, I manually check the SIS for roster changes every day (multiple times a day during the first month of each school year) for roster changes.  I then export the dat...

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Hi, we have a custom built SIS developed by a computer programmer on staff.  Currently, I manually check the SIS for roster changes every day (multiple times a day during the first month of each school year) for roster changes.  I then export the dat...

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Is there a way to have students grade assignments by other students and tally all the scores?

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How do we restrict a quiz to use a single session at a time? We often find students logging in simultaneously from different devices or even different geographical locations to solve quizzes (potentially collaboratively). Restricting the interaction ...

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We use a Canvas course titled "Master Calendar" to add all our school events so that it populates onto the student's personal Canvas Calendars. Events include dances, bell schedule, SAT exams, etc. It allows students to see their own course calendars...

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Has anyone experienced this? In speedgrader, I am selecting Options and then Sort by the date the student submitted the assignment. Once I've sorted, I am routed into the first ungraded assignment in alphabetical order--NOT the oldest. If I click on ...

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What happens to a course when it's blueprint course is deleted?

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Is there a report that will pull quiz statistics for a particular quiz over all sections. I know I can run the item analysis but I have to go into each section to pull the data. The student submissions report gives me a general idea but we need to kn...

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