We use REST api for Canvas to create courses. We found recently this thread which mentions the participation setting is needed. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Add-Participation-field-to-Courses-API/idc-p/467939/highlight/true#M...

If I have an External URL (e.g. video located on my Google Drive) within the Modules section of my Canvas course, is there a way to see which students have clicked on this link and viewed the video?

I'm a student and I'm trying to get the exact time events from the calendar start. I have managed to get a list of events on any given day, however I need that exact time of the events as well. Is there any way to do this? (I'm talking about events, ...

I am having a problem with the student annotation tool. I set the due date for the assignment, but do not have a date for the assignment to close; however, students that do not submit the assignment on time are no longer able to access the document d...

In the last 2 weeks, I have had 3 different assignments that have not synced to PowerSchool. The other assignments did. I have changed the assignment type, dates, and turned off the sync portion, saved, and then clicked to sync to the grade book. I a...

I teach Psychology and I want to give one half of my class one scenario to consider, and the other half a slightly different variation of the same scenario to consider. The key is, I don't want students in one group to see what the students in the ot...

I want to integrate UserGuiding with Canvas and it's payment is related to the amount of users that access my canvas monthly. For example, if "user1" access it more than once on the month it still counts as only one user accessing it, but if "user2" ...

We would like to survey our faculty on how they're using Canvas and its tools. Are there any other higher ed institutions out there that have conducted similar surveys that you would be willing to share?

After many clicks, I reach a link to a possible solution to this question: How do I have marking tools appear on a student's submission? On one student's work they may appear. On the next, nada. Once the 'answer' was apparently within reach the reply...

Hi!  A lot of our teachers would love to be able to create folders in the inbox. Since it's not possible to do so in Canvas, does anyone know about any add-ons or applications that can be used with Canvas, to make the inbox better?  //Rebecca 

As a Parent, How do I email a specific teacher regarding my child's progress?

What is the point of teachers being able to annotate student submissions when they can't even view them on a desktop browser?? In fact, they can't view ANY of their past assignment submissions on a desktop browser. Only on a mobile device. What sort ...

Can anyone tell me how to set up a Canvas course in which some students are taking the course for 2 credits and some are taking it for 4 credits, whereby the 4 credit students have more assignments to complete than the 2 credit students? For instance...

Is there a way to engineer it so that a student cannot submit an assignment before another one is completed WITHOUT making them complete assignments in sequential order and WITHOUT hiding subsequent modules from them? I want my students to have to su...

When I copy a module to another course, quizzes, assignments and discussions do not copy over. I have to insert links again. What do I do wrong?

When are new quiz reports regenerated if you regrade a question or make other adjustments to individual student grades for the quiz?

I cannot find help for this, so PLEASE, help!  I created a quiz using "New Quizez" and chose a matching section.  I only see the option to set points for the entire section.  I want each to be worth 2 points so Ss get partial credit.  How in the worl...

Do I need to be using a "New Quiz" to take advantage of this feature?  A lot of the time, an Instructional Designer builds the quizzes and I have to live with what they give me, therefore, is there a way with the old quizzes to see which questions we...

 I've done some pages to try to explore the idea of replacing slides, video, captions, and transcripts with wiki page. For example, see: https://canvas.kth.se/courses/11/modules/58345 Presenting data (as a Wiki) - this module has the text transcript ...

Since updating to ios15 for iphone the quiz and test views do not scroll. They did with the previous most up-to-date version of the ios operating system

Is there somewhere to download the discrimination index? If not, why not?

HI, I'd like to know the number of aggregate participations for a given week (ours runs Wed-Tues) for each of our 35 students. Does anyone know if this report creation is possible? Thanks, Vanessa

I have been copying my rubrics in Canvas by using the import content feature in Settings. It worked great at first, but now I've run into some problems. I work at an IB school, so my criteria for any given assignment is always a variation of the same...