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I would love to be able to share an assignment or a page that I've created in my Canvas LMS for a course, so that when I am telling my students about an assignment they can scan the QR code to easily open the link.

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I'm the Canvas admin for my university and director of our Learning Technologies team. We're planning to hire a graduate assistant, who would be the first student worker we've had in our area. Their role would be to help with support tickets and, dep...

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Hello.  I am a new teacher to Canvas.  Is there a way to see only new submissions from students?  Currently, I am clicking on each course and scrolling through to find new submissions.  Please advise 

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Good day. I have a joint project with others.They are unable to add me to it.Please refer to the attached screenshot.

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My assignment group weights for marking period 3 were for 80-10-10 because of a district assessment. For marking period 4, they should be 90-10, but Canvas won't let me change it because it's in the same semester. Is there any way to fix this so that...

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How to find district name given a name or account which can be fetched from LMS.

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I run a small peer review exercise where I assign students to review each others' work anonymously. I currently do this manually because I do not want reviews going back to the original students without staff oversight. I have intervened once when a ...

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Is there any way to prevent students from using API?  Blocked only for those with a student role in a course.   Thanks, it's doubtful but thought I would ask.

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Hello!I'm trying to export a filtered view of m grade book and it's not working. I've tried selecting the specific columns I want from the "Assignment Names" filter and using the "Assignment Groups" filter. It continues to export the entire grade boo...

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The default for importing content changed this semester to "import all" and this totally messed up 9 weeks of my course. Our instructional team spent nearly 50 hours undoing this error during a busy part of the semester and this was totally unnecessa...

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I'm not sure how long this has been going on, but I noticed this week that when I create a hyperlink, the Canvas Accessibility Checker flags it as not being a dark enough blue. Is there any way for me to change the default so I don't have to change t...

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We are experiencing an issue with a Canvas quiz submission that requires your immediate attention. A student has completed and submitted a quiz on their personal device. On their end, the quiz shows as successfully submitted. However, when we attempt...

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I have hundreds of short 1-2 question quizzes in my online course. I try to grade student submissions ASAP, so I click on a student's SpeedGrader and then I need to move to the following quiz (not the following student... because nobody else has comp...

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Hello,Does anyone know how to make the discussions of a particular thread response send out a notification when there is a reply to your post?Thanks, 

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I'm unable to find any way to disaggregate the data from rubric scoring to determine areas of student weakness. Is it really true that once the information is entered in a rubric score, it can never be exported or retrieved for use? Thanks.

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Hi,  We are reviewing our LTI/software review process, and I wondered what other Canvas schools do.  Currently, we have the faculty member fill out 2 forms.  One is a rubric that they have the vendor help them fill out.  The other is a department rev...

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When a student answers a quiz question incorrectly, I would like for them to receive a notice of where they can get information in the course material that explains the answer.  This would only apply to incorrect answers. I don't quickly see how I ca...

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I am having a hard time with my new course not showing the work I have completed in the Modules list..grades list..or assignments list.  How am I to know what I have completed without going thru the lists every time hitting next..next..next? 

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Uploaded an Articulate html zip onto the Files section in the Course in Canvas. On the page, I used the rich text editor to input the iframe tags pointing to the html file which is uploaded. I have tested the pages multiple times and it was all able ...

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I'm working on a course page built with the new CidiLabs Design Tools. The page has buttons and content cards. In Chrome, on my PC (15") and Mac (13") these look like this: Attachment 1.When I check in Designer tools the responsiveness for different ...

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how do I find the a downloadable WhiteBrickStudios logo, I have an assignment dues tomorrow  I need help! I checked the SharePoint website and couldn't find it. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?

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I’m trying to find a way to use LockDown Browser with automated proctoring while still allowing students to submit cited essays. Is this possible? I’ve read that depending on our institution’s settings, this might be allowed—but I’m not sure how to c...

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In my understanding, Canvas only allows peer reviews to be assigned from one individual reviewer to another individual student. However, for group assignments this is often not what's needed. For group assignments, there is only one submission per gr...

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It’s the first time I have online class. I tried  but I couldn’t access the module 1 by iPhone. Is that possible to have online class with N iPhone? Could anyone help me? 

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When writing test questions with "multiple answers" I am only getting two options for grading:1. Partial credit with penalty2. ExactI am not getting the partial credit with no penalty.  My institution is adopting Canvas for the coming fall semester, ...

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My class does not start until next week. The gradebook is showing all of the students' assignments as "Missing," which gives them all a 0% total before the course begins. How do I change this without having to go through each individual student and t...

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I'm new to Canvas and I'm finding the point-based rubrics very confusing for 'thinking' with letter grades. I have a few related questions whose solutions I've tried to search for but I haven't been able to get clear answers. i. Are there any rubrics...

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I´m trying to do a proctored exam. Although I have my Proctorio installed, active and with with access. I find an error message in Canvas saying "LTI Tool Missing. Reconnect course or contact exam administrator" When I click it, it takes me to Procto...

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Announcements - Podcast - what is this? Does it mean the system will send out an email to all enrolled students? If so, why don't you say that? Why call it a "podcast"?

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I changed my legal last name in my TTU portal, but it did not transfer to Canvas, and my account still has my maiden name. Is there a way to change it to my new name?

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