Does Canvas provide the ability to build keyboard shortcuts for repeated text (like macros in excel)?When building questions and in other rich content editor environments, does Canvas have a way to build a macro or keyboard short cut to paste repeate...

  Problem: User mistakenly thinks they are in student mode because they see the 'Student View' text, in top right, and they don't understand that it is a button to click on, which would then bring them into student mode.   Improvement Suggested: Add ...

Hello, thanks for your help. I am a teacher who has used canvas this year. I am moving to another state and that school district also uses canvas. Is there an easy way to transfer my current course with my current district/account to my future distri...

Hi! I'm investigating online student behaviour in a number of units at my university. I love that I can download a csv file of Weekly Online Activity which shows overall student engagement in resources. However, this information is generic - e.g. X n...

Hello everyone! Is it possible to create a quiz for prospective students? We are looking to test a few incoming students before they are officially enrolled in the program. Can the quizzes created in Canvas be shared with individuals who are not enro...

hello the discussions tab is not showing under my course what do I need to do 

I need to do the petition process in Canvas, advisor told me i can find the petition in "Academic Resources " " in Canvas, but i didn't. Please help me. Thanks!

Hello,I appreciate the Late Submission settings in Gradebook, however I would like more options here.  I really need there to be an option for a ONE-TIME late penalty of 50% of what is EARNED on an assignment.  This is my class policy and it frustrat...

I also strongly request color coding options for modules.  This green and grey coloring just blends together and it is hard to differentiate types of assignments for students.  Additionally, for accessibility, if you had it pre-programed for us to se...

I have a quiz that has let's say 24 questions in it.  Is there a way to put a rubric on one question and not on the whole quiz?

I have lost an assignment that was already graded. It's an attendance tracker in which students have been receiving negative points for absences for the entire semester. I need to recover this assignment somehow, otherwise I will need to re-enter the...

Hello, is there a way to sort/order our gradebook by students' FIRST name. Currently, we do so only by last name. Since we are an international college, however, students from certain countries have no last name; So fields are left blank, or contain ...

Is there a way to get a direct link to the elements of the Training Portal without signing in to canvas? Trying to provide option to faculty that is 1-2 clicks vs. 5-6. Any suggestions?

How can students view rubric results when the instructor uses the rubric built into the Google Assignments LTI 1.3 external tool assignment type? 

Would appreciate any help with locating a list of common problems/solutions that educators may face when importing content from another LMS into Canvas. 

Hi all, I am trying to find a solution to the following: Our courses are organized by weeks (week 1, week 2, etc.). The issue is that students don't know what week it is. I want to create on the home page a button that links to the current week's act...

Please can someone advise?There is a 25 to 30 second lag from my typing to text appearing in the Comment boxes on Speed Grader.This is making marking impossible!Nothing else is running slow on my laptop.  Have used Chrome and Int Exp.Windows 10Thanks...

Is there an OOTB early alert feature in Canvas that I can enable for the institution? If not, what options are available? I saw many articles about how to enable early alert on a course in Canvas, but I am looking for enabling it for an institution i...

I manage Canvas for a technical college using the following parameters: We offer rolling admissions.We fall under the umbrella of the K-12 districts calendar.We have 3 terms a year. At any given time, a course can be taught in all 3 terms depending o...

Hi, I seem to have an issue with interfacing with the Canvas API from my tool (I'm a tool provider).In Canvas we have a course with 20+ sections. When a launch of my tool is pefrormed from the instructor, we interface with Canvas (via its Oauth API) ...

Are other institutions using a tool to match students based on ranked preferences? In 2022 a community member posted this as a suggestion, https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Assignments-A-tool-to-rank-preferences-and-match-them-wit...

Our institution would like to copy all past courses (including all materials uploaded within the course) to our new term. Is there any way to use csv file to copy all courses simultaneously instead of doing manually for every single course?

I've been using Canvas and noticed there are different types of quizzes mentioned in the documentation, like graded quizzes, practice quizzes, and surveys. However, I only see one type available in our Canvas instance. Has anyone else experienced thi...

We have been running the Google LTI 1.3 since it became available, with a pretty high fidelity and success rate. Unfortunately, as of late, students have been hit with a white screen or loading error when trying to attach Google Docs from the Upload ...

 Would like to adjust an administered 50- item exam to a 49- item exam without simply giving all students credit for the question I wish to remove due to item analysis statistics. Is there a way to do this in Canvas?

The speed grader will not show text document. See attached image: 

How many daily clicks does the application support?

I can't seem to find where or how to delete an external URL page, not a URL used in the Rich Content editor. Image is attached below, there is no delete option or edit option on the page. 

Hello, I designed a course that allows participants to earn a certificate after earning a passing score on an assessment and rain into the following issues: Participants were able to skip the assessment and earn the certificate ; despite having the p...