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I would like to create a question bank in new quizzes so that is accessible by all teachers in the course. Is this possible?  Whenever I try it always shows up under All Courses and I have to manually share the questions banks to each teacher.  Is th...

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On discussion posts, students are able to see who authored a discussion post and when it was last edited. Is there a way to disable this or hide the author?

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How do you disable files so your students can access it?

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How we can add a camp event to the calendar without adding each day alone?Such as the camp start on Thursday till Saturday, so there is no option to put the date From and the date To.Please advise

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How can I change the start date to make it earlier. When I did an import, it adjusted my dates and I didn't double check them

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Hi CommunityHave discovered this on a couple of occasions.We use a quiz for our training delivery evaluations.  A quiz was copied from another course to use in a new course.For example, the quiz showed that 9 students completed it, and when the excel...

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Hi, I am unable to rearrange my Canvas courses in the Dashboard. I was still able to do this just 2 months ago, but now it won’t work. Tried Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera browser on my laptop but still cannot rearrange the courses. Any help will b...

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Hi communityAre there any settings that can be used to not show a second or third assessment submission as a late submission, other than editing the assignment and providing an individual due date for the second or third attempt?Any guidance is appre...

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Good evening,I am wanting to de-cross fit my sections, but it's not allowing me to.

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I am trying to mark assignments as done on canvas but there is no mark as done button, or mark as a completed button. 

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I am a teacher in LISD. I already have a Canvas account.Can you please help me pair my child's Canvas to my LISD account? Thankyou

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Hi, relatively new to Canvas here.Is there a way to show/hide (publish/unpublish?) course content (e.g. a file) to only a particular section of students?Example use cases:One class (section) has a slightly different 'term overview' to another due to ...

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im am a 10th grader and I have multiple honors classes , which I get a lot of home work and every time I log into ccps and click on canvas I get brought to a white page with only dashboard , I can't go to any of my classes or even click courses becau...

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Is there a way to organise the Assessor Comment Library after comments have been added 

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Un saludo a toda la comunidad,Busco ayuda para crear un perfil que pueda ser observador pero a nivel de cuenta, no de curso, es decir, que pueda ingresar y visualizar movimientos, actividades, foros, calificaciones, recursos, movimientos, vista de us...

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I copied a Teaching Plan into each of my modules and started editing them. I just realized that as I edit, it is not only editing the specific module that I am working on, it is also editing all of the module teaching plans that I copied. Therefore I...

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Hello, I want to build the reading in my modules for my class.  What are some ways to get to and list current readings assignments? 

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How do I hide completed courses from my dashboard? I clicked the star and they were hidden. After the date the course was scheduled to end, they all reappeared. The star is still white but all classes reappeared on my dashboard.  

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Hi,My Dashboard is still showing my child's previous middle school announcements and I am unable to view her current classes at her new school. 

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Can emojis be used in Assignment names that will be synced with Synergy SIS?

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A year or two ago I changed my name but then the feature was removed. Can my name somehow be reset back to ANGEL RIOS? 

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The survey I am creating is a poll of the students' answers for each question. This is not a graded assignment, but will facilitate discussion. How do I view the results of an ungraded survey?

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I have a teacher getting an error message when trying to use Grade Passback. See attachment. 

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I have cross sectioned two classes.  One is syncing with powerschool and the other isn't syncing with powerschool.  All assignments and point values are the same.  

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When downloading assignments in bulk, the zip file contains files which are named with the student name.Can the filename be configured to include the student id field?Thanks

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My settings don't show an option for cross listing courses with two different course numbers. i need to  combine a grad and an ugrad section into one for content sharing. all the other answers tell me to cross list.  is there any other option?

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I've successfully had my students synce their Canvas calendar with their Google Calendar, however, only events are syncing NOT assignments, is that an error on my end or are Canvas Assignments not able to sync? 

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How do I duplicate a module?

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Good afternoon all,Let's say our Canvas has a page at:https://univ.instructure.com/courses/1200/pages/helloworldWithin it is an html element to which I have given the id "Research&ManInfo"S0, if I wish to point to this element within the url, I const...

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I teach high school Algebra 1. I randomize the quiz questions so each student gets them in a different order, but we always have a constructed response on paper. Our workaround for this using the gradebook is to make an essay question where they ackn...

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