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Hi, I have been successfully embedding Padlets in Canvas pages for my students to use for the past 5 years. After have just re-made Padlet form last year, with the same settings and embedded it in Canvas it shows up with the error message:"This padle...

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Hello all,I usually send out an announcement at the start of each week for my students. It details the agenda and assignments and keeps them on track. However, I also have a page in each module that does this. If I use the "assign to" feature, will t...

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I am an Admin. We had created a staff observer role for our PLC Chairs, and we recently discovered that this role no longer has the ability to View as Student on the Instructor Pages. I am attaching their current permissions. Can anyone assist with w...

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Hello! For some reason, I am not able to see the separate sections of my course in the People tab. I am able to see all of my students and the sections they are assigned to in one whole group, but the section tab does not appear in the People tab. 

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As a Canvas Admin: What's the most efficient way to conclude old courses lacking term dates?  What's the most efficient way to remove/delete former students from the instance?

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Recently, Storyline SCORM 2004 (4th) edition files uploaded to Canvas as graded assignments are no longer registering submissions. Meaning, a student can get all the way through the Storyline assignment and will have passed both benchmarks needed to ...

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I was working on a quiz and it was quite long. The next question button and the submit quiz button look very similar. They are also right next to each other. The quiz didn't prompt me to say that I finished all the questions and accidentally clicked ...

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Hello - I see others have had this issue. I have tried the solutions offer to no avail e.g. looked in spam for the email, checked user settings for my Canvas account. What else can be done?Thanks!Leslie

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There has been a way (for the past several years) that when using Speedgrader you could just hit "enter" and move to the next student so you didn't have to use the "j" shortcut or click the arrow button and now that isn't working. I have looked throu...

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How do I access archived courses as a teacher? 

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I don't know if anyone else has bee frustrated with the new "Assign Access" hyperlink. When assigning access to individual students or separate classes it used to be at the bottom of the page and you could just add there.  Now you have to click on th...

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I'm testing out the new LockDown Browser feature and noticed that it changes the name of a quiz to "'quiz name'- Requires Respondus LockDown Browser". I would rather not have my quiz be synced with such a title.  I went to fix the title but had an er...

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Our course content (like modules, assignments, and quizzes) is pre-loaded from an external tool, and the course settings are set by our course admins.Teachers only need to grade and collaborate with students, so we’ve turned off all options for them ...

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Can I integrate a Webpage created in Canva into a Canvas page and include links that lead the user to assignments, modules, in the course?

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Last spring Speed Grader started refusing to display text files that didn't have a .txt extension, such as C, Python, and Java program source code. At the time, Canvas "fixed" the issue and restored the ability to see and annotate such files. Here's ...

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Hi there Just wanting to request a feature for Canvas Assignments - we have some Instructors who want a physical hand in of an Assignment and the same thing submitted digitally at the same time so they can use Turn It In to check for plagiarism. It w...

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As a building administrator, I need to be able to see all of a student's grades on a single screen; not each assignment grade, but the overall current letter or % grade.  Having to click from course to course is time-consuming and clunky.  In my help...

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Hello, can you please grant me access to chemistry class chem 110 77033, thank you.I added the class 08/19/24 in person with the instructor add on code. 

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How do I make Modules my Home page?

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There used to be an option to remove student enrollments in bulk within a course. Is there another way to delete students in bulk now?

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Hello Hive Mind, I am told that Canvas has the basic functionality as Kami. I need my students to be able to write on PDF's and than resubmit them to me for grading. I for the life of me can not figure out how to do that. Does anyone have a quick how...

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A student was typing up his response, but hit 'next' instead of 'reply' and now his entry is gone.  Any way to get it back?

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The only way I could build this activity was to make it a Quiz, but it's supposed to be a group activity. Where is the checkbox that lets me do that? In fact, where it it on a "regular" assignment? Did that change when they moved the due dates to a s...

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Canvas is already so bloated! Why do I now have to make an additional click to open a separate screen to set a due date? You keep making it worse!   And can we stop with the 17 Captch requests?? I don't have time for this crap!   And I like the title...

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I've uploaded several VidGrid videos and some students cannot view them. They get the following message:"We were not able to find a user. Please try again, if that doesn't work please contact your account administrator or videoengineering@paylocity.c...

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Is there a way to move student submissions from one assignment to another? For example, when a student turns in an assignment in the wrong place. 

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I'm a Canvas admin, and one of our instructors reached out because the Modules page is showing the wrong due date for some assignments.  For example, a specific assignment shows a due date of Sept 9 on the Modules page, but when you click on the assi...

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Is anyone else experiencing this? On the home page of any course, the right hand sidebar almost overlaps a bit of the content on the right , which also stops me from using the menu items for any modules. I've attached a screenshot for viewing.  The o...

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We've added Rubric to an Assignment shell for instructors' grading on Speed Grader. In the past semester, we would add a code "<div id="school" data-pretty-rubric="true"> to prevent the Rubric being visible to students.   However, it seems that Canva...

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I have created 100+ Practice Quizzes (2 items each drawing randomly from larger pools) in my statistics class. These are organized into 8-10 Practice Quizzes for each module over the course of a semester. In Blackboard, I could create a Navigation li...

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