Hi Canvas Community, I am busy setting up my Canvas instance and would like to find out if there is a way to use an animated GIF as the background "image" on my login screen.  I see the recommended file type for the login screen background image is J...

I have created my video for my assignment with my iPhone however, I have compressed the file and it is still to large for me to submit. It has to be 10 minutes long. What do  I need to do to submit my assignment?

When I mark assessments, I make extensive use of the annotation tool, but a student cannot see annotations on previous submissions, if they have to resubmit. Teachers can. Students can't.  If the student does not address all of the issues in their s...

Is it possible to track the edit history of what you wrote on a text box for a canvas quiz? For example, can you track anything that was written then deleted before submitting the quiz? 

MY NAME IS MAXINE HANGER AND I HAD WORKED FOR LACOE FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS.  I AM NOW RETIRED AND I KEEP GETTING VARIOUS EMAILS TELLING ME ABOUT CANVAS!!  I WANT THIS STOPPED AND I WANT NO COMMUNICATION FROM CANVAS EVER AGAIN!!!!!!!  HOW DO I GET THIS AC...

I opened self sign-up for a group set this morning in one of my courses. It was a time sensitive thing as students had to sign up for their preferred group with limited places available. I opened all groups at the same time through Edit > Allow self ...

Faculty were delivering timed Quiizzes during the 12/7 AWS outage. Students were kicked out of Canvas. What will happen to the timer when Canvas becomes available again? Will it have continued running so the student window to take the exam will have ...

I showed a colleague how to migrate a Classic Quiz into New Quizzes. I showed her once in my course, and once in hers. Everything seemed fine. A few hours later, I received two email notifications that "Course Export Finished," one for my course, and...

the course i teach varies slightly year to year and i'd like to access previous year's published course on canvas for comparison. on the dashboard/published courses, there's only: Growing With Canvas when there shoud be the published courses for my c...

When using Canvas for Elementary, it seems like students can not find assignments unless there is a due date or linked to a page or in a module.  In Canvas, students can go to Assignments from the navigation, but in C4E they can not access from the S...

We're looking to leverage the LMS for possible doctoral committee review processes. I have heard of others using Google Docs or Office365 for this, but that seems to be too clunky. Does anyone have an example or can share how your institution leverag...

Hi all, I have followed the steps to export the gradebook, and am able to do that. When I go to look at the spreadsheet, it has so many extra columns of assignments/old quizzes that are not assigned to this course. I can't see them in the gradebook i...

Hi, We just split a course into multiple sections. Is there a way to move a bunch of student all at once into the new section?  Thanks!

Hi All When I migrate an old quiz to a new quiz will the learner who is on the old quiz grades and results be copied across when you migrate to the new quiz ? Is their a work around that allows to copy your learners grades to the new quiz when you co...

Is it possible retrospectively to add Turnitin checks to a completed assignment.  I have student papers that I'd like to check for plagiarism, but I cannot see how to do this given that checking was not originally defined for the assignment.  I have ...

Am I able to connect a rubric to assignments so students can grade themselves (feedback) using the rubric I am going to use to grade their assignment?

How does an instructor reset a course if there is no reset link on the Settings page?

I have a sandbox course that allows teachers to take the course in order to evaluate it. The course has assignments with 'Display Grade as' set to either Complete/Incomplete or Percentage. One school does not want to provide email addresses due to pr...

Is anyone encountering recently that Canvas won't render all of the  buttons in Chrome, specifically on the Settings page? I can not change the Participation options from Term to Course because the  drop-down is not visible, but I can see it in Firef...

I want to link from one course to another.  We currently have a MYZONE module for students. It contains a page with a digital timetable where they click on a link and it takes them straight to their lesson.  The subjects are arranged in modules BUT s...