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LAURENLITLE · 2025-09-23

I'm unable to print my students' responses/results in the new Canvas quizzes. Whenever I click "Print Results" and select the font size, it shows it's loading the print preview, then nothing happens. I've tried on multiple devices as well as in bot...

profdboone · 2025-09-23

I accidentally reassigned an assignment to a student. How do I unreassign it? I do not need the student to redo it.

DonutCW1 · 2025-09-23

Any one know how to get the content of the course displayed as a full screen instead of this half thing?

amydaviswillard · 2025-09-23

I am exploring Rubrics on quizzes and assignments and how they feed into Outcomes. I have built a rubric based on my Outcomes, but can not find a way to see student data based on how they scored on the rubric. I can see the overall Outcomes in the Le...

EAfox · 2025-09-23

How can students-students share documents through canvas best?

Sydney_Rabin · 2025-09-23

In the Canvas Gradebook Settings, there is a setting called Automatically Apply Grade for Missing Submissions. If you check this box, there is a box below which allows you to put in a grade for missing submissions. In Canvas, as it is now, if a st...

Andrei-Cristian · 2025-09-23

Introduction Evaluation is at the heart of any successful research project. For my study, which applies Benford’s Law to detect anomalies in financial datasets, it is not enough to simply run the analysis, I must show that my outcomes are valid, reli...

Andrei-Cristian · 2025-09-23

Benford’s Law assumes that in many naturally occurring datasets, the distribution of first digits follows a predictable logarithmic pattern. Deviations from this pattern may suggest anomalies. However, the challenge is to determine whether these devi...

ZIsabella · 2025-09-23

Reopening an archived thread that was not solved: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Archived-Questions/ARCHIVED-Change-quiz-due-date-after-it-became-available/td-p/90687 I changed the due date for a New Quiz that was released because we didn't fin...

DougWalker · 2025-09-22

Hello, I'm looking for information on which account statuses and/or enrollment statuses for a user affect their receipt of notifications. For example a user whose account is suspended, however their enrollment status in a course is active - do they...

PastorT · 2025-09-22

I opened my Canvas account for my course about 5 years ago. In my courses I made myself the Teacher, but now I need to add new roles in the courses and I can't because I don't have admin status. I don't even see the admin link in the Global Pane. Wha...

MiaMalone · 2025-09-22

I need someone to send me a copy of my math 122 class notes from today. I wasn't able to attend class today because, a shooting unfortunately occurred at my apartments today. Thank You. I messaged my professor about it but she hasn't answered me back...

DrOlroyd · 2025-09-22

My Kaltura has completely stopped working after my computer ran out of battery in the middle of a recording. When I try to open Kaltura Capture, it shows up but never finishes loading, so I can't actually click any buttons to start the recording. It ...

LReim · 2025-09-22

It appears that Canvas does not support including unscored rubric items in the “highest to lowest” order. Even assigning 0 points does not keep them in place. The student facing color coding that is applied to rubrics in Canvas is assigned based on t...

Matt_Underwood · 2025-09-22

Hello,I have recently been alerted to a potential bug with the Discussion Board Peer Reviews feature. When the "must respond before viewing other replies" option is turned on, I found that some students are unable to access their Peer Reviews from th...

rstickle · 2025-09-22

Can a students submit/upload more than one document for a single assignment without the second one replacing the first one? I need two different documents from each student for one assignment.

jbuchner · 2025-09-22

I have 360 students who attend labs on different days of the week, I'm not going to grade on attendance, but I want to track easily which students are missing lab. Without having to page through many calendar days or individual students, I'd think th...

L11ghtman · 2025-09-22

I am aware that Canvas offers a limited analytics suite for courses. I am also aware that you can track the course time spent per student. We would like to average how long it takes our students to complete our courses, but as far as I can tell, ther...

davehedge · 2025-09-22

A large number of my gradebook entries have been wiped away to zero (used speed grader if that helps) How can I revert back to a previous backup to recover these grades?

joan81 · 2025-09-22

DavidGamson · 2025-09-21

how do i create a question group that allow students to select three out of five possible essay questions?

noahcharlez43 · 2025-09-21

Having the option to switch to a dyslexia-friendly font is great, but there needs to be more options. The one that is available does not help me for readability. Specifically, it does not effectively differentiate capital "i" from lower case "L", and...

rusignola · 2025-09-21

As a parent, I’d like to be able to more easily see how my child is doing in class without having to repeatedly log into Canvas and navigate multiple steps.Current ProblemI have email alerts enabled for graded assignments, which results in 2–3 messa...

JoNeenOhlaker · 2025-09-21

Speedgrader comments format is being changed from separate paragraphs to all one block of text. Any fixes for this?

EmmanuelKodzi · 2025-09-21

"Do not allow instructure to alert you when you delete a question" - I was getting this alert multiple times in editing a quiz and I checked the box to not let it alert me. Now I cannot even delete a question from the set in the Quizzes. How can I re...

EdwardThome · 2025-09-20

I have a "Daily" which students are to do every.single.day and so there is a grade associated with it. Thus, I enter an assignment for each day so that I can record the grade. However, one student is rather unnerved by all the assignment announcement...

NainMediano · 2025-09-19

¿Cómo puedo eliminar mi cuenta de Canvas? He buscado en las configuraciones pero no encuentro una opción para realizar aquella acción.

WinfordFowler · 2025-09-19

Hi everyone, I'm Winford Fowler. I am currently studying for a Criminology degree and my goal for this course is to strengthen my writing skills and communication skills. Outside of school, I run a local business in Tampa and want to learn somethin n...

TeresaBurnham · 2025-09-19

I am experimenting with using Canvas for Teachers iOS app for grading on my iPad. I teach writing and, in the past, have used various PDF apps which allow me to leave comments, stickers, highlight, underline, and circle words. The iOS app allows most...

smathews · 2025-09-19

Suddenly I'm hearing from instructors that their flashcard embeds from Quizlet are not loading. Is this happening elsewhere? What could be the issue? Our institution is not blocking quizlet.com because we can get to the website, but the <iframe> embe...

SamGarza1 · 2025-09-16

We’re continuing our work to improve the instructor assignment experience in Canvas, and we’d love your input.

sgergely · 2025-09-12

We're rolling out some important updates to how Page Views are handled in Canvas, affecting both the user interface and our public APIs. These changes are designed to improve performance, accessibility, and data management, while also changing how pa...

rthornton · 2025-09-09

The Block Content Editor is coming — shaped by the voices of educators every step of the way. This new editing experience, powered by AI, makes creating engaging, accessible course content simpler and more attainable than ever before.

ruthfoulkrod · 2025-09-09

We’re developing Co-Labs, our new interactive product roadmap experience – and we’re looking for engaged customers to join the pilot. If you’re excited to share meaningful feedback and influence what comes next, this is your chance to get early acces...

F_King · 2025-09-09

At Flinders University, our Instructure Product leadership team had the privilege of coming together with educators, administrators, and students from across APAC. The conversations were filled with creativity, commitment, and collaboration. They rem...

rthornton · 2025-08-27

Our commitment to preserving the learning experience remains unwavering. When we launched our latest NPS survey, our north star was clear: do not disrupt learning. We set broad-stroke parameters with care but received feedback that these parameters f...

AkosFarago · 2025-08-08

Learn about the new integration between Canvas Studio and YouTube’s Player for Education!

NikkiWhang · 2025-08-05

Last week approximately 2,000 Canvas LMS users traveled to beautiful Spokane, WA for our annual InstructureCon event. During the week, we were granted an opportunity to sit down with several of our K12 and Higher Education users for a Customer Discov...

eschiebel · 2025-07-21

Canvas users may now choose to use a dyslexia friendly font.

KataKeri · 2025-07-21

A cleaner, more accessible, and easier-to-use Files page launched in Canvas on July 19! With improved navigation, bulk file actions, better accessibility, and a modern design, managing course and user files just got simpler. Prefer the classic view? ...

Rachel-Bowman · 2025-07-10

In today’s crowded edtech landscape, integration quality matters. Educators and administrators are under pressure to deliver seamless digital learning experiences without compromising on usability, data privacy, or security. That’s why we’re proud to...

Amy_Haskell · 2025-07-08

Last week, we hosted a K-12 Assessment Product Discovery Session (CDS) in San Antonio, bringing together curriculum and assessment leaders from districts across the country. This in-person event provided a valuable opportunity for participants to eng...

MichaelLysaght · 2025-07-08

Today, I’ll update you on some major progress on one of these projects: the Global Identity Service. And offer details of what you can expect over the next 12-28 months.

JoaoSilveira · 2025-07-08

During a recent Customer Discovery Session in Budapest, educators from Europe and Africa shared powerful insights on collaboration, mobile teaching, accessibility, and more. Their voices are already influencing how we evolve Canvas to better sup...

JoaoSilveira · 2025-07-03

A long request is now available: Canvas New Quizzes support to localized numeric formatting, allowing institutions to configure decimal and thousand separators based on regional conventions.

sgergely · 2025-07-02

We’re excited to release the data access platform (DAP) command line interface (CLI) referred to as DAP CLI 2.0. For developers and data engineers that access data from Canvas Data, this is a major version update that introduces new functionality, i...

SamGarza1 · 2025-06-23

Now that Differentiation Tags is available in Feature Preview in production as of June 21, 2025 , you may be asking yourself: What’s the difference between Sections, Groups, and Differentiation Tags? How do I know when to use each one?

AlexisNast · 2025-06-23

Discover how the new Canvas Apps experience streamlines app discovery, management, and monitoring, saving administrators valuable time. This enhanced experience provides critical data for informed investment in tools educators and learners truly use,...

SamGarza1 · 2025-06-18

Discussion Checkpoints are now available in Group Discussions! As we conclude the Discussion Redesign initiative, we invite you to share your feedback in a brief survey.

SamGarza1 · 2025-06-11

We’re exploring ways to improve the Learning Mastery Gradebook (LMGB) in Canvas—and we’d love your input.

SamGarza1 · 2025-06-09

We’re exploring ways to improve the Peer Review experience in Canvas and we need your input!

sgergely · 2025-06-03

We're excited to announce the upcoming release of a new column, non_collaborative, in the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) Query API's groups and group_categories tables at 2025-06-12. This column helps clearly distinguish between standard collaborative groups an...

ZoeLubitz1 · 2025-06-02

The Course Pacing feature is now only in Course Settings, not behind a feature flag. It is still disabled by default.

YasiAfsharnive · 2025-05-21

Learn more about performance and usability updates coming to SpeedGrader, June 21, 2025!

SamGarza1 · 2025-05-21

Differentiation Tags are a powerful new feature coming soon to Canvas! And we’re excited to announce that the Differentiation Tags feature is now available in Feature Preview in beta environments.

shirenv · 2025-05-21

At Instructure, we believe the best way to improve is by listening to the people who use our tools every day—you. That’s why on June 21st US customers will begin seeing a quick question pop up while using Canvas or Mastery asking for your feedback. I...

TamasBalogh · 2025-05-13

To streamline the user experience and create consistency across all Canvas features, the dedicated “attach” button in Discussions and Announcements will be removed on July 19th, 2025. Users can continue to upload images, videos, and files via the RCE...

carlycurran · 2025-04-28

We've heard your feedback! You’ve been asking for clearer course data in Admin Analytics and Intelligent Insights. We're excited to announce a change that will improve your experience.

TamasBalogh · 2025-04-22

Over the past few months, we've implemented several UI and UX improvements to the Discussion Summaries feature preview, driven by the valuable feedback you've shared with us.

KevinMeredith · 2025-04-16

Customer Discovery Session takeaways from March 26th at Instructure headquarters. Members of the Internet2 consortium met with Instructure R&D teams to discuss edtech management and maximizing effectiveness.

Canvas Release Notes (2025-10-18)

Upcoming Canvas Changes 2025-11-05 Breaking Change: Boolean Values Returned as Strings in LTI 1.3 Launches 2025-12-03 API Rate Limit Error Updated For more information, please see Upcoming Canvas Changes. Release notes outline upcoming customer...

Published: 09-12-2025