I'm an instructor and I want to use the Front Page to orient students to my class, including a brief video they should watch first and then tabs linking them to the Syllabus and Modules. I know how to embed a video and course links, but I've seen som...

Does embedding videos take up storage space in canvas? Or are they loaded from a third party website. Would including a lot of embedded videos in my canvas course make the course too large to import or export? 

In short, we have a separate internal system for tracking student's submissions, since we do programming assignments. Students are required to submit their work through our system and not through Canvas. However, we do have the actual grades posted w...

Hello all,In a bit of a pickle, I have a student saying that they submitted an assignment right before the due date and saw the “confetti” pop up. However, on my end it showed that there was nothing submitted, so naturally I assigned a zero for missi...

Is anyone else experiencing new problems with the assignment rubrics? It no longer works when I want to select the "freeform comment" box, it automatically unselects when I try to update the rubric.

Hello!  For those of you who use some kind of templates (or maybe you don't use templates at all) to give your instructors a sort-of “starting point”, do you make a custom home/welcome page and set that as your “Front Page”, or do you set your Module...

I am building medical education courses which have multiple modules in one course which focus on a specific content area (3-5 content areas per course). I need to have each content module require 73% pass for the module, in addition to the total grad...

Hi everyone, Recently, we’ve been exploring early indicators that may reflect student success, and we found that students’ on-time assignment submission rate is a good signal. This aligns with our intuition, as students who submit assignments late or...

Syllabus needs to be exportable/printable. The linked post proposes solid explanation of problem and solution. how do I "like" this post/solution? I want to vote to have this changed or propose the same thing. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canva...

When a discussion has the checkpoints option enabled the discussion no longer appears in the bulk date editor. This makes it more difficult to update all the dates for items in a course and makes it more likely a date will be missed. Practice quizzes...

Using the web version of Canvas, I'm having an issue assigning a Canvas Classic Quiz to both a class section and some individual students. Then I save the Quiz, Canvas splits the class section and the students into different Assign To blocks. This a...

Am struggling understanding mixed constructions in simple language, i have read it over and over but still its not sticking in my head.

I am trying to create a user by api in beta instance and expecting the user to receive email notification about account creation but there is no email received. API end point: POST /api/v1/accounts/:account_id/users Payload tried is shown in pic. Pls...

One of our teachers would like to create a kind of Wiki based on the questions from students. Instead of sending emails, the students would ask questions in a public forum, and the teacher could provide the answers there for everyone to see. They tri...

Is it possible to send an email to all instructors of a particular term using Canvas? For example I'd like to send an email to all instructors scheduled to teach during our summer term, but want to send that email via Canvas (not our internal email s...

Hello! I have a journal entry in my imported course that does not have the option for a due date or a score (in the gradebook). This is my first time using Canvas at my school. Any advice is welcome. Laura

I have 30+ past courses that are listed by semester in my canvas list of all courses.  I would like to be able to create folders to organize these past courses into so I do not have an extremely long list of past courses.

Is there a Canvas role that does not receive announcements? My colleague wishes to look at my documentation in my modules. I don't necessarily want them to receive my announcements. Can I add them in a particular role so they don't receive them? Than...

How do I find my Pathway email address?

Is it possible to see "page comments" that students give one another when peer reviewing ePortfolios? I assumed that as the instructor of record, I would be able to view these comments as I do in the individual peer reviews of files, but I do not see...

A professor would like to revise a previous quiz to allow students to re-attempt the quiz.  I searched through the guides and see that there should be options to allow for this (see attached image), but our Canvas is not giving us the option to moder...

Hello! I am an instructor, and my organization is building a number of courses in Canvas in preparation for a public launch later this month. These are adult continuing education courses that are free to the public and have a national audience, so we...

I am yet to access my assignments/quizzes cause I'm unable to access the IinkedIn link which I'm supposed to monitor my progress with. thanks for all you do.

Hi there, I have followed this guide to set up a local instance of Canvas for development.The purpose of this was to do integration testing for an LTI tool, so I need to be able to log in with different types of users and check that the tool is worki...

I have a quiz that I gave last year that I'd like to use (again) tomorrow morning. I'm working to make it accessible using the Secure Exam Browser but the option doesn't present itself. My questions are: 1) Is it possible that I have to create this q...

I'm a math teacher, and I'm trying to create a number line in Canvas for a quiz for my students to teach about inequalities. I don't see any way I can make a number line. I'm trying to figure out how to do that, or if Canvas allows you to do that. Ca...