Courses are open, closed, active, inactive, archived, sunsetted...?

I provide local Canvas support at University of Wisconsin-Madison. I would like an overview of all options pertaining to the life cycle of a Canvas course. I understand about creating courses. (We ...

automatic informing of students about due dates

I've been supporting Canvas at University of Wisconsin-Madison for the past five years. I think I am missing something, and I can't find the right language to look it up in the Canvas guides.  ...

incorrect "adjust dates" while importing a course

I provide support for Canvas usage on University of Wisconsin-Madison. A faculty member teaches the same eight-week course every summer. And, we are having problems with the "date adjustment" feature...

What is a "participation"?

In "View Course Analytics"... what counts towards "Participations"?

Warning about Late Policy Effects

The Late Policy is applied across all assignments. Also, there is no quick-n-easy way to determine what the grade was before... or, (in the case of submitted files) whether or not a particular studen...

Filter by "Student Groups"

I'm trying to wrap my mind around a new (to us) feature in Settings called: "Launch Speed Grader Filtered by Student Group" I like the concept; making SpeedGrader much more efficient by focusing on ...

"Assign to" field doesn't show all students?

So, when creating a quiz, an instructor wants to assign the quiz to just a couple students. When the instructor goes to the "Assign to" field, and clicks inside the field, Canvas auto-displays a dro...

Automatically/Manually vs. Hide/Show

Can you clarify a point of confusion: In my testing, I have done this: 1)  Set an assignment Grade Posting Policy to "Manually". 2)  Entered/edited grades. 3)  Hit "Post Grades"....

How "Grade Posting Policy" interacts with "Hide grades"

I'm still trying to sort out the behavior of the Grade Posting Policy, and how it does/doesn't interact with the Hide Grades command. This is one point of confusion. 1)  My course ...

[Gradebook] Nickname for students with same name

At the University of Wisconsin - Madison, we frequently have courses with over 500 students. With those numbers, we frequently get two students with the same name. When you're working in the gradeboo...

Rubrics used for assignment grade

Good morning, Canvas Community. So... when creating an assignment, an instructor can create (or assign) a rubric to that assignment. The instructor can then use that rubric to assess the assign...

Problems with "Multiple Dropdown" question type

Has anyone experienced a weird corruption in a quiz that causes the optional responses in a "multiple dropdown" question type to automatically, and spasmodically, replicate themselves? My case: ...

SpeedGrader vs. Firefox

The official Instructure statement is that Canvas is supported on all major browsers. However, when I open SpeedGrader in Firefox... I get a little pop-up warning saying (something to the effect...