Hello; I am using the Canvas Free-For-Teacher account as part of an experiment for my dissertation for my doctorate. I have created modules for college students to access and I need help with the foll...

The addition of Google-based reCAPTCHA has made registration impossible for students in parts of the world where Google services are blocked. Having developed a full course with Canvas Free for Teache...

I had created free for teacher account under k12.instructure.com and it took me a while to realize it conflicts with other teacher's accounts since they all made their accounts under canvas.instructur...

I reset a course before downloading or backing up data. I now need a students transcripts. Is there anyway to recover this?

My student has forgotten her password and has clicked on the "forgot password" 3 different times with no response in days.  How do they reset their password? This is going to be a huge issue with over...

Is it possible to act as user in the Canvas free for teacher? We went from the paid version at our school to having to use the free version. I am used to being able to act as user for my kids to look ...

I recently added 7 students to my course, which we've been using since 2107. Three received the invitation and successfully joined the course. The remaining four have not received the invitation email...

Dear Free Users I cannot find the Admin section on my free teacher user account.  I want to change the teacher email and delete another teacher.  Many thanks for your help   Thank you

I have the free Canvas Teacher Account and I do not have the capability to change my students' passwords, or do I?   If I have the capability, I cannot find the link in PEOPLE.  When my students are f...

I have a free teacher account.  Which website do my students need to use to access their account on a daily basis?  We are using www.canvas.instructure.com, but it will not send a confirmation reset l...

Hello I'm using the free teacher Canvas account for homeschooling, and I created most of my daughters courses correctly using "manual" as the sub account, but a few I accidentally didn't select "manua...

Our corporation is currently piloting Canvas and one of our teachers is getting a message that they need to finish the registration process but they did not a receive an email to do this. I believe th...

I created a FFT course and my students were able to register, but now about half of them cannot log back in. When they try, it says "Invalid username or password". When they try to reset their passwor...

I am having trouble fixing the accounts, either the wrong person is on the account or the wrong email is on the account. Need help resetting the accounts. Thank you for your time.

I don't want the Return email that says "Canvas Free For Teachers"-can I change that?  

want to make a powerpoint for back to school night. not sure where to begin. suggestions?

Hi -Our school relied on free Schoology accounts that are now being closed at the end of October. So, my school has ported everything to canvas. However, we are having difficulty simply signing up new...

Hello,I recently have been using Schoology as my LMS and am now switching the Canvas. I know there is a Google Apps app for courses but I can't seem to find it. How can I add this app to my course if ...

I created a Canvas account but cannot add people. The +People button is not working and the HELP section only says that my institution doesn't allow it, but I am my institution and I don't know what I...

When I enroll any user the invitation email is sent as Canvas Free for Teachers which isn't leaving a good impression, how can I change that to my email address instead of canvas?

I am trying to add a student to my course, but keep getting the following error message: "The following users could not be created.c***********@gmail.com: The email address provided conflicts with an ...

I need the student not to be able to skip forward and watch the whole video

I am a new CANVAS free to teacher user. So far I have been using a similar LMS free version by Schoology.com and over the years I have invested a lot of time into it. Unfortunately Schoology will term...

The subject explains what I want to do. I would like to create assignments that accept Google Doc submissions. How do I do that?

  Hi all, So I was on commons looking for some content to post to my course for next school year. I went into the filter option and selected Shared With FFT. A message then appeared telling me There ...

I find the way Canvas and Speedgrader handle names to be incredibly frustrating. The system can't seem to decide when it wants to show me actual student names, their email addresses, or a long random ...

Hi all,I'm trialling Canvas with my classes as part of a school-wide discussion on "Do we use this platform?" The killer feature for me is parent visibility of work. However, I've tried every guide I ...

Hi. I have been requesting a Canvas demo for a week now and I still have not received any reply from the sales team of Canvas. I want to get a quote on how much it will cost to switch from "Free for T...

I have a free accountI am the only userI do not see Admin as an option in the Site Navigation menuHow do I access admin functions or get Admin to appear in Site Nav area

I am an LTI Tool Developer, and wish to test/assert my tool works correctly under canvas.I am using the FFT system - testing LTI 1.1 was fine - it's the default connection.To use LTI 1.3, https://comm...

I have added my classes, however, I do not see Google anywhere in the apps suite. Did they do away with it? If they did, is there a good workaround that I can easily post assignments using Google for ...

Hello, Canvas Free-for-Teacher users! First, many congratulations on getting through this most challenging school year! We hope that your Canvas Free-for-Teacher use has helped connect your courses an...

Three months ago I posted Free for Teacher Feature Options, where I described how feature options, or flags, are used in Canvas to allow institutions when to release certain changes to their own insta...

For those of you who are not LMS administrators, you may not be familiar with the concept of feature options in cloud software.  One of the advantages of cloud software is that it is easier to keep it...

One of the things I am wondering: Is there a K-12 edition of Free For Teachers? There is! Go online to https://k12.canvaslms.com and try it out!   Course Feature Options Comparison Enforced feature op...

Tl;dr Some people are abusing public courses and we need to stop that.One of my favorite things about Canvas, when I discovered it back in 2011, was and is Free-for-Teacher (FFT went live back in 2010...

My attempt to make a little "you grew up and never learned your math facts?"  course ...    I dream of being able to have a practice deck -- two from this group, three from that group, two from the ot...

Summer's Almost Over!  So!   I promised myself 5 hours this week on the "facts modules" ...    And bam!  Brick wall.  Seven minutes to figure out how to edit my module since "edit" means changing how ...

I've put Canvas on a back burner since March since we got the okay to develop a basic Math course in our LMS, D2L.   (It was chosen over Canvas because our institution needed multiple-correct-answers ...

When a bicyclist approaches a traffic light and passes the cars to sneak up to the front, it's called "shoaling."   Canvas Community has turned its "gamification" over and I had enough points to get 5...

I'm taking BlendKit2017 on Canvas ... and hoping to use some of the stuff I'm playing with here, there (tho' it's with my "parkland college" identity b/c I know I'll still have a job for the next five...

  I found iFraming in Canvas    and used it to embed a game from the NCTM illuminations math exercises into my little course. I'll also provide a link so that students can go there.   I'll want to mak...

If your school has one of those very limited LMSs or just an SIS and no actual LMS, a Canvas FFT can allow you to get your students using their technology at a higher, more professional level. Tech in...

  I'm trying to make a module for learning the addition facts.  I work with grownups who discreetly are still counting (either on their fingers or in their heads) or using calculators for everything. ...

When school opened in August, we knew we were going to be up against one obstacle that would be a source of stress for every student, teacher, and administrator in our school: the loss of our previous...

Back when this "service learning" course I'm wrapping up was active (it ended 12/6, but we can finalize our submissions and submit 'til 12/31) I tried to let another person peek at the Canvas course I...

Easily found the nice How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions?    and I like that the "alt tag" is right there on the front to prompt me to write what my image is.   S...

I have been a 11 year-old scout leader for almost 2 years now and have been looking for an easier way to track what my scouts have accomplished along their pathway to rank advancement. I have looked a...

I've got two Canvas accounts -- one associated with the college where I work and then the Free for Teachers that I've gotten through "Instructional Design Service Course:  Gain Experience for Good" h...

Oh, Canvas FFT, it is all coming together beautifully...did you know?I now have a mark book that produces a current grade average automatically...I can see who are the top performers and those that ne...

Like Don Bryn, I want a way to get students into a "course" so they can do things online -- before they're students, and/or independent from our "system."   I anticipate the same unfamiliarity w/ Canv...

How does FFT inspire you to be creative in the ways you leverage Canvas? I want to shift roles right now.  Professionally, I work in higher education and my institution utilizes Canvas.  However, on M...

1. Have absolutely no plan ready when the internet fails, the motherboard on the classroom computer dies (yes, that happened right at the start of a lesson), or there is a power outage. Instead, have ...

What ways do you use Canvas Free-for-Teacher?As I've outlined in a K12 blog post (Students who say, "just tell me what to memorise," and how to serve them​), discovering Canvas was extremely exciting....

For an graduate-level educational technology course I took in the summer of 2014, my final project requirement was to create an online unit around an educational topic, via some type of web page or ot...

"What ways you use Canvas Free-for-Teacher? How does FFT inspire you to be creative in the ways you leverage Canvas?"There have been some great blogs about the benefit of free-for-teachers in Canvas, ...

lauramaewojo​I saw that you mentioned developing some PD for your more adventurous faculty, and I just wanted to let you know that the content in the CanvasHacks course came from my local "Do Not Fear...

I love the Free-for-Teachers side of Canvas, because it helps me become familiar with the new UI before my district rolls it out.  Also, it allows for collaboration and sharing beyond my school distri...

"What ways you use Canvas Free-for-Teacher? How does FFT inspire you to be creative in the ways you leverage Canvas?"Allows Education Students to plan, create class materials and build an actual trial...