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I have several modules that are published in Canvas but my students cannot access them to post. All beginning and end due dates are current. The published module appears greyed out and it is showing locked. I am unable to unlock it and allow postings...

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I was approached by our leadership to brainstorm some ideas on how to bypass our current Module Requirements (we require every student to “score at least” 80 or above on an assignment before moving forward) I am attaching an example under one of the ...

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Playing with the new Lucid embed feature from the RCE and I get this error every time I try.... Anyone else?  

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I am building an e-learning course on Canvas for parents at a K-12 school and need to be able to add their email addresses before they create a Canvas account (one topic of the course).  This is my Capstone for my Masters in Education Technology and ...

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HelloI'd like to take Old and new testment competency exams as a new Mdiv student but those have not assigined to me. instead, Hebrew exam has been assgined to me. Could you please help?

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I'm a SAT tutor and I was wondering If I could integrate CollegeBoard's Bluebook app's interface for my quizzes so the students can be used to the ACTUAL interface of the test. A website that uses what I'm talking about is exam.satpanda.comThanks

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We have followed the initial setup steps provided in the documentation, including enabling the inherited developer key in Canvas. However, we are encountering difficulties in locating the specific configuration details required to complete the setup....

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Messaging from the gradebook now includes more options as reasons and defaults to ¨Students who have submitted¨. If other teachers are like myself the most used category is ¨Students who have not yet submitted¨. The way it is currently set-up I have ...

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Is there a wayt o disable the Settings navigation link? I don't want teachers to go inside these options and make changes. I have already restrictred many of what they can see and change in the Admin or there is a Role that doesn't have access to the...

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My usual community forum presence is in the Canvas Developers group. I'm also planning on asking our CSM about this, but I'm curious to know from the general community why a simple audio playback interface is not available when inserting media that i...

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I am trying to upload publisher's QTI question banks to my course. I go through the normal QTI import steps, select create new bank, name it - but nothing uploads.  I also tried uploading to an existing question bank - no questions seem to upload. Wh...

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A nursing program needs to have 77% assigned into different exams to pass, and somehow discussion and assignment are only taken into consideration if students pass, is there a way to do it directly in Canvas gradebook and avoid having to export the g...

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I am writing some course automation and auditing tools using the API.  I am able to call most of the endpoints without problem.  I need to place a JSON file in the course that will contain some versioning information that I need to read to perform th...

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When my team and I attempt to accept an invite to a course as a student role the page does a refresh, but the prompt for the invitation is present and my status in the course is still pending.    I have tried refreshing the page and attempted to acce...

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When I try to add a new user to my course, it asks for the email address, but there is no field provided for the name of the student. How do I locate the form to add a student with name and email address?

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I teach several classes. Some courses have a dozen students, others (dissertation mentorees) may only have one or two. I would like to see progress (mystudents) for all of my students across all assigned courses, rather than having to open individual...

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I have over 300 messages in my inbox. How do get rid of them other than one at a time?

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I recently had my laptop break down and had to get a new one. When I log on to the UTM Canvas page it is saying that my Google Chrome browser does not meet the minimum requirements for Canvas. The laptop I got has updated all the updates that it can ...

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Is there a way to create a search bar within a course?

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I'm administering a team-taught course by faculty unfamiliar with Canvas.  The concern is that when grading their section faculty will inadvertently alter grades entered by other faculty.  Is there a way to limit grader access to only their assignmen...

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I want to run an admin report for my school administrators that will tally up the number of assignments posted per teacher per course each week.  Currently, none of the default options are available to me, and the only answer I can find is to go to e...

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I recently tried to use the Google Maps LTI plug in to add a map onto my Canvas Page, but experienced an issue as per the image. Does anyone have some ideas about how maps can be embedded?

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We are in the process of purchasing SafeAssign for plagiarism detection and are interested in learning from other schools that have integrated it into Canvas. If your school has done this, could you share how you implemented the integration? Would yo...

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When I click on a Google Slide presentation in Canvas it creates a copy of that slide presentation in my Drive. Has anyone experienced a similar issue and how can you prevent that from happening? 

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Seeking help. The issue seems to be that the Canvas Syllabus page has something going on where it does not display a full webpage built within it. I also am not smart enough to figure out how to have my page display at say 95%, so that fully displays...

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Please make text headers visible in Modules during "Next" button navigation. If you believed they were visible, they aren't. If you are a designer and you feel information is important enough to put in a text header, you probably believe your users c...

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I have uploaded hundreds of SCORM files (Articulate Rise lessons) to my Canvas account. The load time and lag on this page is immense. I am hoping to be able to clear the cache of uploaded lessons, as some are out of date/duplicates. Is there a way t...

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I wonder if anyone knows how to make a specific change to one of Canvas's themes. I like the text size, placement, and relationship of the Bookmark 2 theme. However, as I was making some changes I wondered if there is a setting somewhere that would a...

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We recorded a session in BigBlueButton, and paused it, but didn't stop before ending and closing the conference. Is it possible to recover the recording?

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Greetings, Most of our users are based outside of the US. We are trying to have people set up multi-factor authentication (some of whom are not very tech savvy and I fear the QR process will confuse and frustrate them.) However, I notice when I put i...

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