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Hi everyone! I'm an instructional designer and I am hoping I might glean some knowledge and guidance from other Canvas users on effectively using the Group Homepage sites throughout an entire semester. We've just switched to Canvas so this is a new t...

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How can I delete a sandbox that I created? 

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I am new to this. As an instructor, do I need to create my assignments first then they go into gradebook? I am teaching f/f and utilizing canvas but need to use the gradebook. i.e Quiz 1 =20pts, -- do I just create the assignment with a total of 20 p...

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Hello,  Hope you are well. I work for an organization as a Student Adviser, so I use Canvas as an instructor.  I am not able to find the "New Analytics" tab, not even in the course settings - navigation. Could you help me figure out why? I would be a...

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I've searched the boards and find that several people have been asking about this issue from all the way back to 2019. When will Canvas correct this? I can't tell you how many times classmates and myself have utilized Canvas to record video discussio...

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Hello  I want the students to have a score for their pretest quiz at the beginning of the course so they can see where they are at, (and so I can) but NOT have the pre-test quiz score calculate into their final grade as displayed. I have a grading s...

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Hi, I can't log into my event on Canvas. How do I find or reset my password? Thanks, Ann

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Hello, An application was accidentally deleted yesterday from our production instance. Is there a way to restore a deleted application as an Admin, possibly from Beta, or do you simply need to re-integrate the app? If I need to re-integrate the app m...

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I'm a teacher and want to set up a jigsaw research experience. Ideally, I want students in two sections to select their topic from one list of options, but I can work around that. How can I provide a list and assure that only one student can choose e...

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Hello there, I am attempting to set a specific admin role. I cannot enable 'view all grades' - see image attached, the role is called Student Analytics. Essentially, I would like to create a role that allows someone to be able to access course analyt...

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SO it seems that something has changed in Canvas. The multiple-answer no longer gives partial credit OR there's some other setting that needs to be changed. I've spent a couple hours trying to figure out how to get canvas to score a multiple answer q...

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I recently set an exam for my students and one student needed to do the exam the next day. The other students submitted their exam in the original time period. I then changed the exam date and time (to the next day) just for the student with the exte...

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I know how to merge multiple sections under 1 section.  However, I have been told that this can't be done and was wondering if there is something I miss.  My problem is, if I have ENGR 1250-001, -002, and -003, I want to merge them all under one Canv...

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How can I remove the "Missing Assignment" notification  after i have graded work manually

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Good afternoon. A student asks me to open Units 4 and 5 for her in advance. I did it in the activities and in the automated ones but I don't see how to do it in the units.  Can you guide me?

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I'm the GA for a Hebrew class, The font on the vocab quizzes the professor used is not very good and he's asked me to change them. However, it is very time consuming to go through each quiz and change the font on each individual question. Is there so...

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Hello, Canvas Community:   I need to know How many files can a student submit in the same assignment in Canvas?   Thanks!

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I can't figure out why I can't get any content in my 4th tab to appear, I contacted Canvas support and they told me that enhanceable_content tabs are no longer supported, is this true? Thank you! Here is a link to the code on codepen that I am using ...

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I have a student who is on my roster and enrolled in the course but does not show in grades or speed grader.  Anyone?

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We would like to incorporate into the Grade book the ability to overwrite an "F" (0%) with an "FN" which indicates a student failed to do any or very minimal coursework and never officially withdrew from the course. We use the "FN" grade for Title IV...

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I recently purchased a Microsoft Surface Pro 7 for school only to find that I am unable to log into Canvas on this device. I have tried logging in using both Edge and Chrome to no avail. I am having no issues logging in to this same account on other ...

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Does anyone use special permissions or user profiles for your college's research department? I'd like to know what permissions you would think are important for these groups.  Thanks, Claudia

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I really like the idea of the grade by question functionality.  However, everything I see refers me to how to see one student's responses a question at a time (or to pull that student's responses).  I want to know how I can pull every students's resp...

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Colleagues and/or Vendors, I need help.  I feel utterly lost.  This "Instructure Community" site is a maze and I cannot figure out where I am let alone where to go. My school uses Canvas.  I had colleagues help me last year, but I know that I didn't ...

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The highest score to keep option has been selected, but the default grade is still the last submission. This issue was raised a few years ago and i am wondering if it has been resolved? Or is there a recommended solution. Individual adjustments is no...

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Hello, I want to use Google to login to our self-hosted Canvas, when I look at the documentation about integrating Google and Canvas all points to using SAML but I want to know why and how to use just "Google" as it appears in the Identity Providers ...

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How do I schedule an appointment so I can enroll in the fall?

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Hi, Is it possible to restrict users to SSO when they are able to use it (i.e., students and faculty) but still leave the Canvas login available as well for parents and others? Thanks!

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Canvas Engineers, I am an instructor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, teaching Business writing and Technical Comm. Peer review is one of the assignments we use.  During my summer class right now, I noticed that reviewers were able to see each...

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Encountered an issue with the Note Taker function becoming disabled when Polling Questions are inserted into the Modules. Is there a way to leave the Note Taker feature available to students within Modules containing Poll Questions? Thank you

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