Hi all, My organization is starting a training program for a cohort of seven recent college graduates. Since it is only seven students, we did not want to purchase a full license but use the "Free for Teacher" version. When I sent a test course invit...

My district makes us change our settings at the end of the year from public to private. How do I access my Canvas course now that it is private so I can use what is on last years for this new school year?

Hello,  I've built a web scrapper with Python to scan student's attendance for all courses within a school. For this, I have an index of all courses with their course_id, and weekly one by one, the scrapper goes and stores the values for present, abs...

Hi, My speed grader is not working properly for a particular assignment, can someone please check?

It would be useful to allow only certain tutors to be able to view questions on a quiz. Currently anyone enrolled on a course as a staff member can view all quizzes and question banks, but that may not always be what is needed. For example, the perso...

Is there any way to mass edit the time assignments are due?  Being able to shift the dates doesn't help much if I still have to individually change the time on every assignment.  (Not the same as the requests to be able to choose a different default ...

Hello I signed up for a free course Systemic Approaches  to Public Policy Design.  I used my k-12 email to create canvas account.  I can't get in to the canvas for Harvard do I need a Harvard email or how can I get the code for the class?  Help!!!!!

Hello, I have tired resetting my password four times and I have not recieved an email after two hours. I need to start doing work for my class. How can i request a new password?   

We are moving to Canvas for the 2021-2022 school year and here is a big question that we are having trouble with finding a definitive answer. I'll use my Physics course as an example. It is a year long course with two semesters. Same students in each...

New Quizzes needs the ability to add/record a video response. World Language teachers need to be able to have students record video/speech WITHIN the quiz, rather than recording and uploading to reduce cheating. (And to streamline when screen locks a...

How can I create a custom image for my course tile that appears on the dashboard? 

We were recently informed that Canvas is removing the older, course associated, question banks in the near future and replacing them with new instructor associated item banks. I really like this as it allows me to access questions across my courses, ...

Hi all, I just finished an exam today. It is a quiz(Two parts, multiply choice and short text question) . I finished answering at 3 pm. All answer has been auto saved at 14:56. Then i rewrite a short question. When I finish the question and ready to ...

How to release certain modules to specified users, not based on the pre-requisites? I need to open certain additional modules to a group of students, but hide these files from the rest of the students,  I've recently moved from Blackboard, and they h...

Hello,  I'm trying to find a way to enable notifications (assignment submissions)  as part of account level -, so it will be pushed to all the courses. We have many adjunct faculty, who teaches multiple courses, and most of the time, they  do not tur...

When I hover over a navigation icon such as account, dashboard, etc. for example, I see a screen tip that states the name of the link such as account for the account link or dashboard for the dashboard link. I can see this when I hover over any navig...

I know the question of self-assessment on a Canvas Page has been posted before...but I am hoping for some code options. I am looking for coding options for embedding questions on a Canvas Page (not through Canvas Quizzes). For example, if I want stud...

I've seen a few people have posted this, but can someone please direct me or explain how to set up an email alert for when a student has completed a quiz?  I've tried several things with the notifications settings, but nothing has worked.    Thank yo...

If I have a course where there is continual enrollment and I have groups set up for a discussion is it possible for students who are just coming into class to be automatically enrolled in a group?

Hi All,     We are trying to replace our root "Account Admin" users with lower privileged accounts. We have an API that uses the "delete /courses/{courseId}?" API. When it is called with full "Account Admin" it returns 204 and removes the user. But w...

Hello,  I am an instructor with a question about batch editing possibilities for modules. I would like to be able to batch rename all the pages inside the module without having to drill down one by one and edit each title. Is that possible? Thanks!

I am using the Update a Course API to attempt to update a course_code (the course's shortname). https://canvas.beta.instructure.com/doc/api/courses.html#method.courses.updateUsing Postman, it builds this request (I am using PUT as specified):https://...