Did you know there are hidden games inside of Canvas? Taking a quick break from teaching and learning in Canvas can be a nice stress relief and an opportunity for a little bit of harmless fun in your day. Just make sure your “quick break” doesn’t con...

Hi, As a grader, I set my language to English, but when a student sets his/her language to another, the language on the speed grader page on my end is also that language but not English. For example, the links in the screenshot below are all Korean b...

  Hi: I am wondering if it is possible to use base64 encoding for images when creating course pages. I am producing standalone HTML files + base64 encoded images that I would like to post as a course page after using the HTML Editor option in the RTE...

Hi Team, We are using the webhooks / data services feature and we have come across a bit of inconsistency between events that makes it tricky to use. 1) Some include hostname and others don't 2) Some use specific ids (125) and others use global (1234...

What settings do I need to change, or what do I need to do so Canvas does not send out notifications when I make changes to things?  Obviously, things like Announcements I want all students to see and want them to receive a notification of, but when,...

I am looking to make my home page look like this, but without the double navigation columns. Help please

I have a teacher who created about 76 assignment groups. Now when you click on the assignment tab Canvas will freeze and eventually you will need to close the tab, it stops responding. I could fix this if I could somehow stop the page from loading bu...

I have a quiz that was due yesterday.  I don't want students to be able to take the quiz, so I've set it to be unavailable after yesterday.  However, I want students to be able to view the quiz, the questions, and the correct answers today.  So, I se...

No matter the size or location I get an error message that says "Error: Unable to transmit file to the storage service. The service may be down or you may need to re-login to Canvas." I checked the site that shows if anything is down and all is good ...

I created a free Canvas Instructor account for our School of Clinical Laboratory Science program and when it was set up, my other instructors were added to "Ways to Log In".  This was meant to give them a chance to explore the account before having t...

As a parent, I'd like to get an export of all assignments in CSV or Excel format. Is there an easy to do this today?

At the University of Wisconsin, we use Canvas. Periodically, we need to copy an older course into a new course shell. The main issue we encounter is that images from the originating course (the one we copy from) may or may not show-up when Students v...

Every time I go to canvas I'm greeted with a pop up asking me to take the student tour.  I click it away.  Another pop up pops up that I just click away since I never asked to see another pop up.  I've done this about 50 times so that's about 100 pop...

Hello all you genius helpers! Time-sensitive question: A "new" icon/link for downloading embedded documents from a Canvas Page is suddenly appearing, and I am looking urgently to discover a way to disable or eliminate this item. We have copyright pro...

How can I have students receive an email of a delayed posted announcement

First time poster with what is probably a simple question. I've searched and can't find exactly what I'm looking for.  I have a published page in a live course with students.   I need to edit that page to fix something like a typo. How do I do that w...