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Student groups and assignment settings are correct the Canvas. However, when students submit their assignment, the speedgrader does not have them organized in student groups. It treats student submissions as individual submissions, not as group. 

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I'm trying to find the most efficient way to make changes to multiple pages and the best way so far is to add a CSS code to the original HTML. However it gets stripped out when I preview page. Is there a way to add the CSS code without issues occurin...

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Can you please change the to do list back to how it was before, it was so such better and it helped way more helpful and everyone in my classes are suffering because everything we already did is still posted and we can not swipe it done please change...

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In learning from @DrNufer 's How to Canvas site, I've been working on adding background images to pages (https://www.howtocanvas.com/create-amazing-pages-in-canvas/background-css). Unfortunately, it appears that the code if being altered on copy, cau...

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If a new teacher has existing teachers in the building send/share classes and lessons will the new teacher change the existing modules/assignments/due dates if they edit them for their classes. We used this method to Import them:How do I copy content...

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How do I edit the number of attempts in an assigned assessment after the assignment has been published?

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We have installed the new Microsoft Education (LTI). In the Admin Settings is the option "Hide Admin settings for all users" is fade out. I can't find any artikel of documentation how I can enable this option. We don't want the users to change the se...

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Why are some green published indicators a lighter shade of green?

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In a classic quiz, I want the ability to have a specific number of each question type included (random questions pulled from several banks so that all question types appear in the quiz). The main reason is that I want to ensure essay questions are al...

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I am a student. The Canvas to-do list is blank on desktop, only showing the phrase "Nothing for now". This happens across multiple web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, and Edge). However, the to-do lists for each individual class are working correctly and ...

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Searching for assignments and videos for this course… Lesson one.Dont know how to find the video by Bill Patterson  and the Reading assignment by Richard Alan Fun and Andreas J. Kostenbuger

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Good morning all,   I am working with one of our teachers in her Spanish classes and we are trying to get it set so students are able to record audio as a submission type on a canvas quiz.   The teacher is creating her quiz and creating each question...

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Is there scope to be able to make pages into a more systemic way to store and locate information? At the teacher level, a systemic file management system would be good (similar to files). I'm not if it needs to be its own thing or have the ability to...

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The course announcements are located at the top of my homepage. I'm attaching a screenshot. How can I rearrange the page and move them to the bottom? Thank you.

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I have numerous courses in the unpublished list of my dashboard.  How do I delete a course from the list?

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Hi! I've submitted a jpg photo to be used for my canvas account, but it renders as an empty html image tag. When I try to go to the original file source hosted by canvas everything looks okay, so I'm wondering why it won't display on any other page. 

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When copying an assignment to another class within the same calendar year, the list of courses to choose from includes old, unpublished classes. This makes copying an assignment tedious as you have to look through so many old classes to find the curr...

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How do i add my TAs to my classes

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Is there a way of uploading a image that the students can annotate separately?

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I'm challenged in using Canvas' new quiz module in terms of providing students feedback but not access to all the quiz questions. In my environment, after students take a quiz (I proctor weekly quizzes in class while students use their laptops), I wo...

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I create custom pages to introduce my students to each Module in my class.  I want to be able to set these module overviews as the Front Page a few days before the Module starts.  The only way I have found to do this is to remember to manually set th...

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Hi, I missed the Intro to "Ingnite AI" presentation last week - does anyone have the recording? Is it active yet and if not when will it be available? Any information you could provide would be great. Cheers 

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what if i dont use this plateform is it apart of my grade

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For the CME group simulator page, I noticed that Stocks like MNQ and NQ does not really reflect their shown price. Like MNQ is 2 * index of 23.7k so should be 47,506, but in the simulator I could buy more than 10  Or like in NQ which is MNQ*10, but I...

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Gradebook view is incorrect- the status of missing or excused assignments are not shown correctly. the grades are not center alligned.

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HI, I hope someone can assist. I have a course in Canvas where all the assignments shown on Canvas are not all assignments that are actually completed on Canvas. This causes an issue while I am completing an assignment on the separate app; they are s...

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Can a variable be placed inside a math object for formula questions? I want something like \dfrac{x}{`a`}, where `a` will be a variable I define? If not, how am I supposed to create fractions with a horizontal bar?

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This has happened twice now, where I will click "choose a file" during a quiz, and it submits the whole quiz instead. Another issue is that while I'm taking the quiz and putting in my answers, a couple of minutes later, it erases my answers, and I wi...

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