Latest Topics

The latest questions and discussions in Canvas Question Forum. Ask a question, start a discussion, contribute to the global Instructure Community

Can I get access to all the courses within a program for which I am the program director? I would like access for the courses that I am not the designated instructor for. Is this possible?

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies

I am having multiple issues and I have no idea how to get them resolved.1. Students cannot reset their password. They click to reset password, and it does nothing. No email comes back. Not even in their spam/junk folder. 2. Students can login at my s...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

This may seem like a silly question, but I am fairly new.... I have a course created with modules.  I then created a front page, but when I go to that front page, it doesn't flow to the modules.  Do I need to create a "beginning" module to put the fr...

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies

An instructor is sharing student submitted assignments to Canvas with student names on them. There is no actual grade stated, however there are comments from the professor providing grading feedback.The instructor is sharing assignments of the same c...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

In the Certificate I deliver, there are about 85 different assessments to be resulted in the Outcomes Report. The problem is that some of the might be grouped together (2 theory an 1 practical), while same others are split, making it very difficult t...

Community Novice
Canvas Question Forum
  • 0 Likes
  • 0 Replies

I am doing a portfolio for a class. In this portfolio, we are expected to submit examples of our work, including canvas quizzes as a demonstration for learning. In the previous format of canvas quizzes, I was able to save these as pdfs to print them ...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

I see the following message in grades: Category "Instructor has not posted this grade"All my settings are good......- automatically post grades is on- Hide assignment group totals is unchecked- I even tried to switch to manual and post but still no l...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

Hi!I'm using Canvas Free for Teachers with a group of students from a wide range of universities. I sent out course invitations and am tracking confirmed enrollments. Some students are clearly enrolled and active in the course (based on course activi...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

How can I download the list of signed up students in groups in a tab delimited or comma separated file?  

  • 0 Likes
  • 3 Replies

As Admin I can set `participation´ in the root account. Picture below is in Dutch, sorry about that, but I hope you will be able to figure out my question                  Please imagine with me. The participation is set to start on august first 20...

  • 0 Likes
  • 3 Replies

Suspend or delete a year group ie: year 12  students can we bulk suspend or delete?

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies

When is canvas going to allow student to customize their courses with photos? It's so annoying to have some courses with photos and others without.  

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

I am an instructor. My course has several assignments that have variable due dates. Students can submit some until the end of the semester. Their total grade displayed gives the impression they have an A+ in the class. However, if they do not submit ...

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies

Hi,I just started my training. I am asked to embed stuff/links. Where am I supposed to do this?Am I supposed to follow along and practice on my Sandbox Course?  

  • 1 Likes
  • 3 Replies

I hate hate hate when you open "Record/upload media comment" it steals the browser focus so you can no longer scroll through the document you are leaving a media comment, which makes it totally useless. I always end up opening the doc I'm commenting ...

Community Member
Canvas Question Forum
  • 1 Likes
  • 0 Replies

Problem:I like to grade all of my assignments on canvas and then sync those assignments to my schools gradebook with the Sync to SIS option canvas offers. This is great, but I have noticed an issue from it. When I make an assignment that has a paper ...

Community Member
Canvas Question Forum
  • 0 Likes
  • 0 Replies

Hi!Hope your well.I'm looking to try install (or have access to a Canvas instance) so I can code frontend pages in HTML/CSS/JS and use it as a sandbox. Its for my own use to learn and develop at home. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it. ...

  • 0 Likes
  • 5 Replies

Hello,I wondered why Canvas doesn't have the option to review an uploaded file before submission, leaving room for one to submit a wrong file accidentally. You can only what you submitted after your submission and it doesn't seem right. It's like pri...

  • 1 Likes
  • 2 Replies

I have been told by our school ITS personnel that Respondus Lockdown Browser only locks the student into Canvas. In other words, it does not lock them into just the page with the quiz that employs the Lockdown Browser. Is my understanding correct?

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies

Is there a way to submit multiple file types in one Canvas Assignment Submission?  For example, if I want a student to turn in a video from STUDIO in addition to a PDF file turn-in sheet, can both be turned in at the same time?  It seems when a video...

  • 0 Likes
  • 5 Replies

How do I add the TimelyCare quick link tile to the banner on the left hand side of the screen (where the icons for Courses, Dashboard, Calendar, Outbox, etc. are listed)? Yes, we already have a partnership with TimelyCare.Thank you

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

Our department is considering transitioning from the Questionmark testing system to using Canvas quizzes for administering exams. I understand that Canvas is not designed to be a testing system so I have a question about how robust it is. Most exams ...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

I am a teacher. can't see the information for the last student on my grade screen. Anyone else having this problem? Here's a screen shot:     As you can see, it is hard to read the information in the last row. Clicking on the scroll bar does not chan...

  • 1 Likes
  • 10 Replies

In trying to keep some of our students on task during the day, we have built an allow list only group so they can go to school related sites but nothing else.As part of the allow list, we added everything on the allow list we found in the community: ...

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies

is there a way to select a couple of students and download just their submissions for an assessment? I know I can do 1 students or all submissions for the assignments. I'm seeing this as a problem where the student file can be quite large or i want t...

  • 2 Likes
  • 1 Replies

A major design flaw with Canvas is that it will save your progress on a discussion post so that you can access it later until it randomly decides to delete it. I find it incredibly frustrating that I completed a discussion post days ago and it had sa...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

Hi All, Having issues with a Quiz. It is NOT retaining the Students correct answers when they go back to correct a wrong answers. I have gone in after their first  attempt and reset the QUIZ settings to Build on last attempt. I ticked the Enable buil...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

Hi,I am a student in Interior Design and I would like to book an apointment with a tutor for Sketchup (arch 20) for tomorrow morning, Friday the 19th, but i don't know how to contact them. I saw this is only by appointment on Fridays. i saw the videa...

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

When individual discussions posts are inadvertently deleted, the instructor should have the opportunity to restore information without going through an administrator  

  • 0 Likes
  • 1 Replies

Hello;The New Quizzes icon is not displaying in the Course Summary. It does show in teacher and student view under the Quizzes nav item, but not in the feeds. Is this a setting?

  • 0 Likes
  • 2 Replies